The 52-Week-Low List: 3 S&P 500 Names On Monday
A short list of market losers includes a steep decline in a company still posting growth.
The pain on Monday’s 52-week-low list is not concentrated in any single industry, with just one name each from Electric Utilities, Telecom Tower REITs, and Advertising. In total, 3 S&P 500 stocks are trading at their weakest price of the last year, a small group whose performance contrasts with the S&P 500’s +2.4% return over the last month.
The largest company on the list is Public Service Enterprise (PEG), with a market value of about $37.2 billion. But the most severe decline belongs to Trade Desk (TTD), which has fallen 31.4% over the last month. This raises a key question: when does a steep price drop create a mismatch with a company’s operating results? The full list of names follows.
The Full List, Largest First
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEG | $37.2 Bil | -1.5% | -2.7% | -7.4% | -11.9% |
| CCI | $32.1 Bil | -2.6% | -4.1% | -7.6% | -27.4% |
| TTD | $6.4 Bil | -3.0% | -26.8% | -31.4% | -84.8% |
A steep slide has left one name with a low multiple despite double-digit growth.
Trade Desk (TTD) stands out for the divergence between its stock price and its recent business performance. The stock’s 31.4% one-month decline has left it trading at 15.4 times trailing earnings.
At the same time, its revenue grew 11.6% over the last twelve months, and the company generated a free cash flow yield of 13.5%. This profile differs from Crown Castle (CCI), which trades at 37.0 times trailing earnings while its revenue declined 4.6% over the same period.
A low price is a starting point, not a conclusion.
A list of stocks at 52-week lows is a screen for potential opportunity and for real trouble. A new low can mark a business with deteriorating fundamentals, or it can mark a healthy one whose stock has simply been sold off.
The disciplined approach is to treat the price as an alert, not a verdict. The necessary next step is always to examine the business itself, separate from the stock’s recent path.
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 the three major indices – the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Read the list; own the discipline.