The 52-Week-Low List: 2 S&P 500 Names On Monday
A technology giant’s steep one-month slide anchors an unusually short list of market outliers.
As of Monday, just 2 S&P 500 stocks are trading at their 52-week lows. That small count is notable given the S&P 500 has returned +3.3% over the last month, suggesting these are company-specific events, not a market-wide trend.
The list is led by a true giant: Oracle (ORCL), with a market value of about $378.2 billion. Its decline has been sharp, falling 34.4% over the last month alone. The central question for any investor is how a business of this scale can diverge so sharply from the broader market. The full list of names follows.
The Full List, Largest First
Here are all 2 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORCL | $378.2 Bil | -6.5% | -8.2% | -34.4% | -43.4% |
| CPRT | $25.7 Bil | -0.3% | -6.1% | -12.5% | -42.8% |
Oracle’s price slide contrasts with its recent business growth.
The technology name has seen its stock decline 34.4% over the last month. Yet its revenue grew 17.4% over the last twelve months, and the company now trades at 22.1 times trailing earnings. The other name on the list, Copart (CPRT), shows a different profile: its revenue grew 1.0% over the last twelve months, and it trades at 16.5 times trailing earnings.
A new low is a starting point for research, not a conclusion.
A 52-week-low list is not an automatic buy signal. It simply flags stocks facing significant selling pressure. The disciplined work is to investigate the underlying business behind the ticker.
A stock at its weakest price of the last year can represent a permanently impaired company or a solid one that has been marked down. The price is the question, not the answer; the quality of the business is what matters.
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.
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.