Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Thursday’s Full List
A major industrial name lands on the new-lows list, raising questions about price versus performance.
CRH (CRH), a company with a market value of about $62.2 billion, is now trading at its 52-week low. It is the largest of 15 US and Canada-listed stocks with a market value above $500 million to hit that mark on Thursday.
The weakness in these names stands against a broader market where the S&P 500 has returned +2.0% over the last month. This raises a core question for any value-oriented investor: when does a falling stock price reflect a genuine discount in a growing business? The full list of names follows.
The Complete 52-Week-Low List
Here are all 15 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRH | $62.2 Bil | -1.7% | -4.3% | -6.6% | -15.7% |
| NRG | $23.9 Bil | -4.3% | -3.7% | -17.3% | -21.3% |
| DKS | $15.9 Bil | -6.2% | -11.3% | -14.7% | -19.4% |
| BWXT | $14.3 Bil | -3.6% | -8.0% | -10.6% | -5.1% |
| LII | $14.1 Bil | -3.2% | -2.9% | -23.8% | -33.1% |
| SMMT | $9.7 Bil | -5.2% | -11.2% | -15.7% | -51.0% |
| TTD | $6.3 Bil | -1.6% | -8.5% | -24.2% | -74.6% |
| GXO | $5.2 Bil | -2.2% | -6.2% | -16.0% | -14.9% |
| ESAB | $4.8 Bil | -0.4% | -7.7% | -6.5% | -30.4% |
| HWKN | $2.5 Bil | -3.7% | -6.6% | -16.5% | -29.7% |
| ATS | $1.9 Bil | -2.5% | -4.2% | -28.2% | -29.3% |
| CPRI | $1.6 Bil | -4.4% | -11.7% | -14.8% | -31.4% |
| ARDX | $1.0 Bil | -3.2% | -0.3% | -23.2% | -33.4% |
| ARRY | $0.7 Bil | -4.3% | -8.9% | -19.1% | -47.1% |
| LMB | $0.5 Bil | -2.2% | -3.3% | -43.3% | -63.0% |
But is a lower stock price always a sign of a weaker business?
Not always. Consider Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS), whose stock has declined 14.7% over the last month. Over the last twelve months, its revenue grew 41.2%. Similarly, NRG Energy (NRG) saw its stock fall 17.3% in the last month, while its revenue grew 12.8% over the last twelve months. Not every company on the list shows this pattern; Lennox International (LII), for instance, saw its revenue decline 2.1% over the last twelve months.
So what is the disciplined way to read this list?
A 52-week-low list is a starting point for research, not a conclusion. A stock at its weakest price in a year can signal real damage to a company’s operations or its prospects. It can also mean a solid business has simply been marked down by the market. The disciplined move is to investigate the business fundamentals behind the ticker before reacting to the price itself.
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.
Notice how many of these names sit in one corner of the market: 6 of the 15 are Industrials stocks. When a whole group is marked down together, an aerospace and defense ETF like ITA is one way to own an eventual recovery without betting on which single name survives it best.
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.