Ripple is not going to touch a dollar and a half today, it is impossible.
It is almost a x3 from it's actual price, so consider it as a lie.
I think the ripple would be hard to do. Currently the market is in a difficult period, the price of the low altcoin, the price of ripple only 0.66%, the market will need a lot of time to recover and grow. However, I think in the next few years, the ripple will grow very strong and it will easily reach $ 1.5. This is the time to buy a ripple because the price is very low.
If ripple gets back to $1,5, the price of bitcoin would be at least, $10,000.