<div id="readability-page-1">Software stock Toast Inc (NYSE:TOST) is up 1.7% to trade at $35.78 at last check, after scoring an upgrade at J.P. Morgan Securities to &#34;overweight&#34; from &#34;neutral.&#34; The analyst in coverage cited expectations of strong growth, as the brokerage favors companies within the payments and fintech space that boast pricing power, strong margins, and 2026 front book velocity. Coming into today, 12 of the 29 analysts in question called Toast stock a tepid &#34;hold.&#34; This means there is still plenty of room for more analysts to move in with upgrades, which would produce additional tailwinds. TOST is still below its year-to-date breakeven level, and has shed 17.9% over the past 12 months. Today's gains are testing the shares' 50-day moving average, a trendline that contained breakouts in October and November. Calls have been more popular than usual, per the software stock's Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio (SOIR) of 0.52 sits in the 16th percentile of its annual range. Options are also affordably priced, as TOST's Schaeffer's Volatility Index (SVI) of 46% sits higher than just 8% of all other readings from the past year.</div>

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Toast Inc 的股票（紐約證券交易所代碼：TOST）上漲 1.7%，至 35.78 美元，此前摩根大通證券將其評級從 “中性” 上調至 “增持”，理由是強勁的增長預期。該股票仍低於年初至今的盈虧平衡點，並在過去一年中下跌了 17.9%。分析師認為還有進一步上調的潛力，這可能會進一步推動股票上漲。該股票正在測試其 50 日移動平均線，期權價格具有吸引力

由於對強勁增長的預期，Toast 股票評級被上調