The 52-Week-Low List: 4 Names On Friday
A short list of new lows features some surprisingly large companies facing steep recent declines.
Just four stocks from the Russell 3000 are trading at their 52-week lows as of Friday. The list includes Rollins (ROL), a company with a market value of about $17.4 billion, and RB Global (RBA) at about $15.7 billion. These lows arrive even as the S&P 500 has returned +3.4% over the last month.
This raises a critical question for any investor looking at a stock at its weakest price of the last year: is the business shrinking alongside its stock price? The full list of names follows.
Friday’s Full 52-Week-Low List
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Here are all 4 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROL | $17.4 Bil | -0.1% | -3.6% | -20.0% | -36.8% |
| RBA | $15.7 Bil | -2.5% | -11.0% | -25.5% | -28.0% |
| UVV | $1.1 Bil | -0.3% | -11.9% | -15.6% | -11.1% |
| WBTN | $1.1 Bil | -2.6% | -7.2% | -22.9% | -51.1% |
Is Growth Still Present at These Lows?
Two names on the list show a notable divergence between their recent stock performance and their business results. Rollins (ROL) has seen its stock decline 20.0% over the last month, yet its revenue grew 9.9% over the last twelve months. Similarly, RB Global (RBA) experienced the steepest one-month slide on the list, down 25.5%, while its revenue grew 9.7% over the same period. In contrast, Universal (UVV) and Webtoon Entertainment (WBTN) saw revenues decline 3.0% and 0.5%, respectively.
A low price is a signal, not a conclusion.
A 52-week-low list is not an automatic shopping list. It is a collection of problems. The price action indicates something is wrong, or at least perceived to be wrong. The disciplined approach is to investigate the business behind the ticker. A low can mark real damage to a company’s fundamentals, or it can mark a solid business that has simply been marked down. The work begins, it does not end, with the price.
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.
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 the three 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.