Where The Selling Ran Deepest: 5 S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Lows
A technology giant’s sharp decline highlights a small list of market outliers.
AppLovin (APP), a company with a market value of about $113.3 billion, hit a 52-week low on Thursday. It was one of just 5 S&P 500 stocks to do so, a small group whose performance contrasts sharply with the broader market.
The stock has declined 35.7% over the last month, a period when the S&P 500 returned +3.1%. This raises a critical question for any investor scanning these names: what does it mean when a company’s stock price and its business growth appear to be moving in opposite directions? The full list of names 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APP | $113.3 Bil | -19.7% | -16.9% | -35.7% | -11.2% |
| HONA | $49.6 Bil | -23.2% | -23.4% | -30.3% | n/a |
| PEG | $37.4 Bil | -0.7% | -3.2% | -7.7% | -12.1% |
| ROL | $17.7 Bil | -2.0% | -4.0% | -18.1% | -35.8% |
| APTV | $9.9 Bil | -1.5% | -20.3% | -20.9% | -28.5% |
Is there still growth inside these beaten-down stocks?
For some names on this list, the business is expanding even as the stock price weakens. AppLovin (APP) saw its revenue grow 60.6% over the last twelve months. The company trades at 25.6 times trailing earnings with a free cash flow yield of 4.0%.
It is not alone. Public Service Enterprise (PEG), another name on today’s list, saw its revenue grow 12.7% over the last twelve months. It currently trades at 18.6 times trailing earnings.
How should an investor use a list like this?
A 52-week low is a data point, not a verdict. It can mark a business facing genuine deterioration, or it can flag a solid company whose stock has been marked down. The price is an entry point, but it says nothing about the quality of the asset itself.
The disciplined move is to treat the list as a starting point for research, not a conclusion. A low price on a declining business is a potential trap. A low price on a growing one demands a closer look at the fundamentals.
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.
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 the three 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.