2 Quantum Computing Stocks to Buy Before They Soar 128% and 132%, According to Certain Wall Street Analysts

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Trevor Jennewine, The Motley Fool

Tue, November 25, 2025 astatine 2:45 AM CST 5 min read

IonQ's trapped-ion processors make much unchangeable qubits than the superconducting processors utilized by D-Wave, and its gate-based systems volition yet person much usage cases.
D-Wave's annealing systems presently person much usage cases than IonQ's systems, and D-Wave was the archetypal institution to commercialize quantum computers, but they are yet constricted to optimization problems.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says quantum computing contiguous is akin to artificial quality (AI) successful the mid-2010s -- but Nvidia was overmuch cheaper backmost past than IonQ and D-Wave are today.
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Wall Street is astir arsenic excited astir quantum computing arsenic artificial quality (AI), and definite analysts expect triple-digit returns successful IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) and D-Wave Quantum (NYSE: QBTS) during the adjacent 12 months, arsenic elaborate below:

John McPeake astatine Rosenblatt Securities precocious acceptable IonQ astatine a people terms of $100 per share. That implies 132% upside from its existent stock terms of $43.
Quinn Bolton astatine Needham precocious acceptable D-Wave Quantum with a people terms of $48 per share. That implies 128% upside from its existent stock terms of $21.

Here's what investors should know.

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IonQ uses trapped ions to make quantum computers connected the gate-based model, the astir communal framework. It benefits from vertical integration, meaning it controls overmuch of its proviso concatenation by gathering hardware, processing software, and delivering cloud-based services. IonQ is besides the lone supplier with quantum systems disposable done each 3 large nationalist clouds: Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet.

Generally speaking, trapped-ion exertion produces much unchangeable qubits (meaning ones that support fragile quantum states needed for calculations) than the superconducting exertion utilized by D-Wave. However, trapped-ion exertion is much hard to standard owed to engineering complexity, arsenic aggregate precisely aligned lasers are required to power the qubits.

Earlier this year, IonQ unveiled an ambitious roadmap that includes offering interconnected systems by 2028 and unlocking applications that necessitate ample logical (stable) qubit counts by 2030. "We judge that with this accelerated roadmap, IonQ volition person the astir logical qubits and the lowest manufacturing outgo for commercialized systems," according to the property release.

Importantly, portion IBM believes it tin physique a fault-tolerant quantum machine connected a ample standard earlier the extremity of the decade, the institution besides acknowledges the technology's afloat imaginable volition not beryllium unlocked until 2033 astatine the earliest. Similarly, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says utile quantum computers are 5 to 10 years away, likening the exertion to artificial quality successful the 2010s.