Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Friday’s Full List

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A short list of new lows contains some surprising growth stories, even as the broader market climbs.

Copart (CPRT), a company with a market value of about $25.8 billion, hit its 52-week low on Friday. It leads a small list of 11 stocks from the Russell 3000 at their weakest price of the past year.

The slide for these names comes as the S&P 500 has returned +2.4% over the last month, raising a key question: does a new low mark a broken business or a discounted one? The full list of names follows.

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The Full List, Largest First

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The table below lists every stock at its 52-week low, largest first, with one-day, one-week, one-month, and one-year returns:

Tickers Market
Cap
1D
% Chg
1W
% Chg
1M
% Chg
1Y
% Chg
CPRT $25.8 Bil -2.9% -8.3% -12.1% -42.2%
JOBY $7.3 Bil -3.4% -9.1% -16.7% -33.2%
TDS $3.9 Bil -1.6% -5.7% -13.1% -12.4%
GPOR $2.8 Bil -5.2% -9.9% -8.7% -13.1%
PATK $2.7 Bil -1.2% -2.7% -5.9% -15.7%
NNE $1.0 Bil -2.2% -5.8% -21.2% -45.5%
KDK $0.9 Bil -6.2% -8.6% -20.8%
PSIX $0.8 Bil -0.5% -6.9% -11.8% -50.5%
AIAI $0.7 Bil -6.4% -25.4% -28.4%
AGNT $0.7 Bil -6.6% -15.0% -6.6% -53.3%
SLDP $0.5 Bil -3.3% -7.9% -17.1% -10.1%

Some businesses on this list are still growing.

Consider Gulfport Energy (GPOR). The stock trades at just 4.8 times trailing earnings while its revenue grew 38.6% over the last twelve months. The company also generated a free cash flow yield of 12.8%. In a different corner of the list, Joby Aviation (JOBY) saw its revenue grow 69873.9% over the last twelve months, a stark figure for a stock at its yearly low.

So is a new low a signal to buy or to sell?

The list itself answers nothing. A stock at its weakest price in a year can signal deep, fundamental damage to a business. It can also mark an opportunity, where a solid company’s shares have been marked down by the market. The disciplined move is always the same: treat the list as a starting point for research, not a conclusion. The price is the last thing to check, after you have checked the business.

If any of these names tempt you, resist buying a price alone. Our Buy the Dip screen asks the follow-up question that matters: which marked-down stocks still have the growth and cash generation to recover.

Notice how many of these names sit in one corner of the market: 5 of the 11 are Industrials stocks. When a whole group is marked down together, an industrials ETF like XLI is one way to own an eventual recovery without betting on which single name survives it best.

Weakness Is Information. It Is Not An Instruction

A 52-week low tells you what the market thinks today. It does not tell you what to do, and acting on price alone is how value traps get bought. The missing ingredient is always the same: is the business still sound?

Asking that question across thousands of stocks, every day, is exactly how the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio is built: roughly 30 names that pass the quality screens, held with rules instead of nerve. It has a track record of outpacing a benchmark that combines all major indices – the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Let the low list sharpen your watchlist, and let the portfolio carry the risk.