S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Thursday’s Full List

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A software giant’s sharp decline defines an otherwise quiet day for new market lows.

As of Thursday, just 1 S&P 500 stock is trading at its 52-week low. The name on that short list is Oracle (ORCL), a company with a market value of about $357.1 billion. Its stock has declined 35.3% over the last month, a period where the S&P 500 returned -0.5%.

When a company of this scale hits a new low almost entirely on its own, the essential question is what the numbers say about the underlying business. The full data is below.

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Every Name On The List

The table below lists the 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
ORCL $357.1 Bil -6.2% -13.6% -35.3% -46.5%

Is the business shrinking as fast as the stock price?

The data for Oracle (ORCL) shows a notable split between its recent stock performance and its reported growth. While the stock is at its weakest point in a year, the company’s revenue grew 17.4% over the last twelve months. The stock currently trades at 20.9 times trailing earnings.

So is a new low a red flag or a green light?

A 52-week-low list is not an automatic buy or sell signal. A new low can mark a business with genuine operational problems, or it can represent a temporarily marked-down asset. The price is an entry point to a question, not the answer itself.

The disciplined approach is to investigate the business fundamentals behind the stock chart. This list is a starting point for research, identifying where market pressure is most visible.

A 52-week-low list tells you where the pain is; it does not tell you which of these declines are worth buying. That second question is what our Buy the Dip screen answers, every day: beaten-down names where the fundamentals still hold up.

A 52 Week Low Is A Stress Test For Concentrated Portfolios

Every stock on this list just showed its holders what a bad year feels like. How much damage any single position could do to your net worth is a question with a precise answer. The Trefis Wealth team computes it for investors professionally, with the same rules-based systematic discipline that runs our High Quality Portfolio. Request a free vulnerability audit of your biggest positions.