The 52-Week-Low List: 27 Names On Friday
Today’s list of market laggards includes some surprisingly large and growing businesses.
On Friday, July 17, a total of 27 stocks in the Russell 3000 hit their 52-week lows. The list is topped by giants, including Netflix (NFLX) with a market value of about $291.2 billion and Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) at about $122.6 billion. The central question is what it means when companies of this scale, many still expanding, trade at their weakest point in a year.
The list below is also marked by industry clusters, with four names each from Aerospace & Defense and Diversified Metals & Mining. Here is the full data.
Every Name On The List
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NFLX | $291.2 Bil | -7.3% | -6.0% | -12.4% | -44.9% |
| ISRG | $122.6 Bil | -14.1% | -15.1% | -17.2% | -32.6% |
| ALNY | $35.5 Bil | -5.5% | -10.5% | -5.1% | -17.1% |
| PNR | $10.1 Bil | -4.9% | -18.0% | -17.0% | -39.8% |
| KTOS | $8.1 Bil | -2.0% | -4.5% | -18.3% | -15.2% |
| MP | $8.1 Bil | -0.5% | -13.3% | -20.7% | -22.7% |
| OKLO | $7.0 Bil | -1.4% | -15.8% | -28.4% | -36.1% |
| JOBY | $6.8 Bil | -1.5% | -6.3% | -22.6% | -55.7% |
| LOPE | $3.8 Bil | -1.9% | -7.0% | -2.7% | -17.1% |
| QS | $3.6 Bil | -0.8% | -10.9% | -15.3% | -48.4% |
| ACHR | $3.4 Bil | -1.1% | -6.1% | -18.4% | -63.3% |
| EMAT | $3.1 Bil | -2.3% | -11.4% | -30.1% | n/a |
| ORLA | $3.0 Bil | -0.8% | -11.8% | -25.6% | -26.7% |
| CPRI | $1.9 Bil | -3.3% | -9.2% | -21.1% | -11.8% |
| TMC | $1.6 Bil | -0.5% | -11.2% | -27.9% | -51.3% |
| BBAI | $1.3 Bil | -2.7% | -13.1% | -28.3% | -60.1% |
| IE | $1.2 Bil | -1.6% | -11.0% | -29.5% | -28.7% |
| VMET | $0.9 Bil | -1.5% | -9.0% | -32.0% | n/a |
| BUR | $0.9 Bil | -4.2% | -6.4% | -11.5% | -71.7% |
| NNE | $0.8 Bil | -1.0% | -15.0% | -33.2% | -56.7% |
| EVEX | $0.8 Bil | -2.2% | -9.9% | -21.6% | -69.6% |
| METC | $0.7 Bil | -3.6% | -5.4% | -15.8% | -45.5% |
| AVEX | $0.7 Bil | -8.3% | -11.9% | -27.0% | n/a |
| PSIX | $0.7 Bil | -4.8% | -12.4% | -22.5% | -63.2% |
| HTZ | $0.6 Bil | -3.7% | -12.2% | -63.9% | -76.7% |
| SCZM | $0.5 Bil | -0.7% | -8.8% | -25.5% | n/a |
| CCOI | $0.5 Bil | -6.3% | -13.0% | -31.7% | -78.4% |
Can a business be growing while its stock is falling?
Several names on this list show a sharp disconnect between business performance and recent stock price. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY) saw its revenue grow 82.6% over the last twelve months. Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) trades at 41.1 times trailing earnings while its revenue grew 21.4% over the same period, even as its stock declined 17.2% over the last month.
Netflix (NFLX) itself, the largest company here, posted revenue growth of 16.7% over the last twelve months. Its stock has declined 12.4% over the last month.
So how should a disciplined investor use this list?
A 52-week-low is a data point, not a verdict. It can signal a business with genuine structural damage, or it can mark a solid enterprise that has simply been sold down with its sector or the broader market. The price is a starting point for research, not the conclusion.
The disciplined move is to investigate the business fundamentals behind the stock ticker. A low price on a deteriorating business is no bargain, while a temporary low on a durable one can be an opportunity. The work is in telling the two apart.
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
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