Just bustin them b.....
It could be. 1$. Look at IOTA. Cheap coins attract everybody: smart, greedy, rich, poor, noobs.
I believe many "investors" don't even understand the difference between (just an example) bitcoin 21 million coins, or litecoin's 81million, and verge's 16.5 Billion.

for a 1usd verge it's marketcap should be ~15billion. which is like LITECOIN currently.
Is it doable? if crypto keeps growing as fast as it is now.... I don't see why VERGE shouldn't reach 1usd in 2018 if it is a good coin. I've not researched it, but it gets mentioned by John McAfee quite a lot along with MONER and ZEC.