3 S&P 500 Stocks Just Touched 52-Week Lows
A short list of market lows features some surprisingly large and growing companies.
Netflix (NFLX), a company with a market value of about $291.2 billion, is now trading at its weakest price of the past year. As of Friday, July 17, it is one of just 3 S&P 500 stocks to do so.
The presence of such large companies raises a key question: are these businesses fundamentally damaged, or simply marked down? The full list follows.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NFLX | $291.2 Bil | -7.3% | -6.0% | -12.4% | -44.9% |
| ISRG | $122.6 Bil | -14.1% | -15.1% | -17.2% | -32.6% |
| PNR | $10.1 Bil | -4.9% | -18.0% | -17.0% | -39.8% |
A low price does not mean the business has stopped growing.
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) has seen its stock decline 17.2% over the last month. Yet its revenue grew 21.4% over the last twelve months. Netflix (NFLX) shows a similar pattern, with a 12.4% one-month stock decline alongside revenue growth of 16.7% in the last year. Both companies are expanding their top line even as their shares touch new lows.
A new low is a signal to check the business, going beyond the price.
A list of stocks at 52-week lows is a tool for discovery, not a simple buy or sell signal. A stock can reach its weakest price in a year because its prospects have genuinely deteriorated. It can also happen when a healthy, growing business is temporarily out of favor with the market. The disciplined move is to treat the price as a prompt to re-examine the company’s fundamentals, separating a damaged stock from a marked-down one.
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.
The Low List Is A Symptom. Own The Discipline Instead
Every stock on this list got here the same way: the market lost confidence faster than the business could defend itself. Some will earn that confidence back and some will not, and telling them apart name by name is unforgiving work.
That work is what the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio systematizes: about 30 quality businesses screened for the cash flow and balance-sheet strength that let a company fight through a bad year, sized and rebalanced by rules. 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. Read the list; own the discipline.