S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Monday’s Full List
A short list of market laggards is led by a technology giant, raising questions about the difference between a falling stock and a failing business.
As of Monday, July 20, 7 S&P 500 stocks are trading at their 52-week lows. The list is led by Oracle (ORCL), a company with a market value of about $349.0 billion. Its stock has declined 33.6% over the last month, a period where the S&P 500 has returned +0.2%.
This raises a central question for any name on a low list: is the business shrinking alongside its stock price, or is something else at work? The full list of names follows.
The Complete 52-Week-Low List
Here are all 7 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORCL | $349.0 Bil | -4.0% | -7.7% | -33.6% | -50.6% |
| NFLX | $285.5 Bil | -2.0% | -8.4% | -12.2% | -46.9% |
| LOW | $114.4 Bil | -1.9% | -1.4% | -5.8% | -4.5% |
| SNPS | $72.5 Bil | -1.5% | -12.8% | -18.0% | -35.7% |
| EXE | $20.9 Bil | -1.3% | -0.2% | -0.6% | -17.0% |
| PNR | $10.1 Bil | -0.5% | -18.8% | -15.4% | -41.2% |
| PSKY | $9.5 Bil | -2.1% | -10.3% | -14.1% | n/a |
Is a lower price always a sign of a broken business?
Oracle (ORCL) stands out for the sheer scale of its recent decline. The stock has fallen 33.6% over the last month. Yet, the company’s fundamentals show its revenue grew 17.4% over the last twelve months. Similarly, Netflix (NFLX) is on the list after a 12.2% one-month slide, while its revenue grew 16.0% over the same twelve-month period.
So how should an investor use this list?
A 52-week-low list is not a shopping list. It is a list of questions. A stock at its weakest price of the last year can signal a permanently damaged business, or it can mark a good one that has been sold off. The disciplined move is to investigate the business behind the ticker before reacting to the price.
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.