The 52-Week-Low List: 18 Names On Friday
A list of stocks at their yearly lows includes some large companies whose businesses have recently grown.
NRG Energy (NRG), a company with a market value of about $23.0 billion, is trading at its weakest price in a year after declining 16.8% over the last month. The S&P 500, for context, has returned +3.7% over the same 21 trading days. This raises a core question: what does a new low mean when the business itself shows growth?
As of Friday, 18 companies with market values above $500 million hit new 52-week lows. The full list follows below.
The Full List, Largest First
Here are all 18 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NRG | $23.0 Bil | -2.9% | -1.8% | -16.8% | -24.1% |
| TLN | $13.5 Bil | -2.8% | -5.8% | -11.0% | -22.4% |
| GME | $8.0 Bil | -2.1% | -1.9% | -18.3% | -20.6% |
| STWD | $5.8 Bil | -0.8% | -3.5% | -2.6% | -12.6% |
| CRUS | $5.5 Bil | -2.2% | -5.9% | -17.7% | -7.4% |
| ESAB | $4.6 Bil | -3.2% | -6.1% | -10.7% | -34.7% |
| PRIM | $4.0 Bil | -5.0% | -5.3% | -14.6% | -37.5% |
| MIR | $3.5 Bil | -3.0% | -2.8% | -3.0% | -29.5% |
| OPEN | $3.2 Bil | -2.7% | -6.8% | -13.9% | -18.2% |
| BXMT | $2.3 Bil | -0.6% | -3.8% | -8.3% | -21.8% |
| RUN | $2.1 Bil | -3.1% | -4.1% | -7.8% | -44.4% |
| OLN | $2.0 Bil | -0.8% | -5.7% | -21.7% | -23.0% |
| ATS | $1.9 Bil | -1.0% | -2.7% | -28.3% | -29.2% |
| UTI | $1.2 Bil | -1.4% | -4.7% | -46.8% | -21.3% |
| CSR | $0.9 Bil | -0.1% | -2.7% | -6.3% | -5.0% |
| COLL | $0.8 Bil | -4.1% | -6.5% | -29.5% | -34.6% |
| ESRT | $0.8 Bil | -1.1% | -4.8% | -8.2% | -38.2% |
| MATW | $0.7 Bil | -0.5% | -1.6% | -23.8% | -9.0% |
Some names on this list show business growth despite their price weakness.
NRG Energy’s revenue grew 12.8% over the last twelve months. Talen Energy (TLN), the second-largest name on the list, saw its revenue grow 75.8% over the last twelve months. GameStop (GME) also presents a contrast: its stock has declined 18.3% over the last month, while its revenue grew 1.6% over the last twelve months and its free cash flow yield is 9.2%.
A low price is a starting point for questions, not an answer.
A 52-week-low list is not an automatic shopping list. A stock at its weakest price of the last year can signal genuine fundamental damage, or it can mark a valuable business that is simply out of favor. The disciplined move is to check the business before reacting to the price.
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.
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.