{"id":5154,"date":"2026-07-12T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/12\/stifel-bullish-on-shopify-cites-agentic-ai-as-key-growth-driver\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:44:13","slug":"stifel-bullish-on-shopify-cites-agentic-ai-as-key-growth-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/07\/12\/stifel-bullish-on-shopify-cites-agentic-ai-as-key-growth-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Stifel Bullish on Shopify, Cites Agentic AI as Key Growth Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stifel has upgraded Shopify to &#8216;buy&#8217; from &#8216;hold&#8217;, setting a new price target of $150 per share, citing the growing trend of agentic AI as a significant catalyst. The investment firm believes this technology will accelerate Shopify&#8217;s already robust market share gains.<\/p>\n<p>Agentic commerce, powered by AI bots, is expected to revolutionize online shopping. While monetization is still in its early stages, Stifel sees Shopify&#8217;s ease of adoption for this technology as a key advantage, projecting considerable future upside for the stock despite recent declines.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/11\/shopify-stock-could-get-a-boost-from-the-agentic-ai-craze-stifel-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stifel has upgraded Shopify to &#8216;buy&#8217; from &#8216;hold&#8217;, setting a new price target of $150 per share, citing the growing trend of agentic AI as a significant catalyst. The investment firm believes this technology will accelerate Shopify&#8217;s already robust market share gains. Agentic commerce, powered by AI bots, is expected to revolutionize online shopping. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108218661-1761752626151-gettyimages-2227553113-img_1117.jpeg?v=1776774640&w=600&h=300&vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-technology","rifnote_executive-j-parker-lane"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108218661-1761752626151-gettyimages-2227553113-img_1117.jpeg?v=1776774640&w=600&h=300&vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}