S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Thursday’s Full List
A short list of new lows features a sharp divide between business growth and recent stock performance.
Lennox International (LII) has declined 27.1% over the last month, the steepest slide on a day that saw 5 S&P 500 stocks reach their 52-week lows. For context, the S&P 500 itself has returned -0.7% over the same period. The list is small, but it raises a critical question for investors: when does a falling stock price reflect a broken business, and when does it just reflect a lower price?
The full list of names follows.
Every Name On The List
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Here are all 5 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNPS | $71.3 Bil | -0.4% | -0.3% | -16.5% | -41.4% |
| ROL | $18.5 Bil | -1.0% | -2.8% | -8.1% | -32.3% |
| LII | $14.5 Bil | -2.9% | -22.4% | -27.1% | -34.0% |
| PSKY | $8.7 Bil | -1.8% | -8.0% | -20.8% | n/a |
| BLDR | $7.3 Bil | -2.6% | -6.4% | -26.2% | -50.5% |
A software giant on the list is still growing quickly.
Synopsys (SNPS) is the largest company on the list, with a market value of about $71.3 billion. While its stock has declined 16.5% over the last month, its business fundamentals tell a different story. The company’s revenue grew 39.5% over the last twelve months. This contrasts with another name on the list, Lennox International (LII), whose revenue declined 2.1% over the same period.
A low price is a starting point, not a conclusion.
A 52-week-low list is a tool for discovery. A stock hitting its weakest price of the last year can signal real damage to a company’s operations or outlook. It can also mean a solid business has simply been marked down by the market. The disciplined move is to treat the price as an alert, prompting a fresh look at the underlying business before making any decisions.
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.
Notice how many of these names sit in one corner of the market: 3 of the 5 are Industrials stocks. When a whole group is marked down together, an industrials ETF like XLI is one way to own an eventual recovery without betting on which single name survives it best.
Catching Falling Prices Is A Skill. Not Needing To Is A Strategy
Buying stocks at 52-week lows works brilliantly on the survivors and painfully on the rest, and nobody rings a bell to tell you which is which. The honest answer for most investors is to stop needing that call.
The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio holds roughly 30 businesses selected for the traits that make recoveries likely in the first place: consistent cash generation, strong margins, resilient balance sheets. 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. Watch the low list for information; let a disciplined basket do the buying.