The 52-Week-Low List: 11 S&P 500 Names On Tuesday
A pair of giant retailers land on today’s list of weakest stocks, raising questions about value versus damage.
Construction Materials and Building Products each placed two names on today’s 52-week-low list. In total, 11 S&P 500 stocks are at their weakest price of the past year, a period where the S&P 500 has returned +0.5% over the last month. The largest company on the list is TJX Companies (TJX), with a market value of about $147.4 billion.
The presence of such large, established retailers raises a key question: when a company’s stock hits a low, is the business itself also weakening? Below is the full list of names.
Every Name On The List
The table below lists all 11 S&P 500 stocks at their 52-week lows, largest first, with one-day, one-week, one-month, and one-year returns:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TJX | $147.4 Bil | -0.5% | -4.5% | -15.1% | -1.3% |
| LOW | $111.8 Bil | -2.3% | -6.8% | -5.7% | -20.9% |
| CRH | $60.8 Bil | -3.3% | -5.2% | -7.1% | -18.1% |
| CCL | $32.0 Bil | -2.8% | -11.1% | -18.7% | -26.0% |
| MLM | $30.3 Bil | -2.5% | -4.9% | -6.7% | -17.5% |
| VICI | $27.8 Bil | -0.4% | -2.9% | -3.8% | -19.5% |
| NRG | $23.1 Bil | -0.6% | -3.6% | -20.9% | -23.8% |
| LII | $13.1 Bil | -1.4% | -3.0% | -13.3% | -31.7% |
| PNR | $9.7 Bil | -0.0% | -3.2% | -9.9% | -43.1% |
| WYNN | $9.3 Bil | -0.7% | -8.2% | -7.7% | -27.9% |
| BLDR | $6.8 Bil | -5.4% | -9.5% | -13.4% | -54.7% |
Which names show business growth despite the stock’s slide?
Lowe’s Companies (LOW) and Martin Marietta Materials (MLM) stand out. While its stock is at a yearly low, Lowe’s revenue grew 8.2% over the last twelve months, and its free cash flow yield is 6.3%. Martin Marietta Materials shows an even greater disconnect between its recent price and its past performance. The company’s revenue grew 14.8% over the last twelve months, though its free cash flow yield is 2.7%.
How should an investor use this list?
A 52-week-low list is not an automatic buy or sell signal. It is a starting point for research. A low can mark a genuinely damaged business whose fundamentals are in decline. It can also mark a solid business that has simply been marked down by the market. The disciplined move is to investigate the company’s financial health before making a decision based on the stock price alone.
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.