Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Wednesday’s Full List
A list of yearly lows features some of the market’s largest and most established companies.
TJX Companies (TJX), a retailer with a market value of about $145.2 billion, is trading at its weakest price in a year. It is one of 18 companies on today’s 52-week-low list, which screens for US and Canada-listed stocks with market values above $500 million. The presence of such large firms, including 7 S&P 500 members, raises a key question: what does a new low mean when it happens to a name this big? The full list of names follows.
Every Name On The List
The table below lists all 18 US and Canada-listed stocks in the Trefis coverage universe at their 52-week lows (the screen only considers companies with market values above $500 million), largest first, with one-day, one-week, one-month, and one-year returns:
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- 14 Large Cap Stocks Just Made New 52-Week Highs
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- The 52-Week-High List: 15 Mid Cap Names On Wednesday
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TJX | $145.2 Bil | -1.5% | -4.0% | -16.4% | -4.1% |
| LOW | $111.7 Bil | -0.1% | -5.0% | -8.4% | -21.2% |
| LHX | $48.7 Bil | -0.9% | -0.6% | -8.4% | -3.5% |
| ROL | $17.2 Bil | -1.3% | -2.7% | -5.1% | -36.1% |
| TXT | $13.7 Bil | -0.6% | -4.9% | -11.1% | -0.3% |
| LII | $13.0 Bil | -0.9% | -5.0% | -16.3% | -30.5% |
| PNR | $9.6 Bil | -1.0% | -4.8% | -12.6% | -43.0% |
| SARO | $7.9 Bil | -0.6% | -4.4% | -21.5% | -9.7% |
| BEPC | $5.7 Bil | -0.8% | -3.9% | -5.3% | -1.3% |
| KRMN | $5.4 Bil | -1.6% | -16.5% | -25.1% | -25.0% |
| AMTM | $4.9 Bil | -0.5% | -3.4% | -17.6% | -20.3% |
| ESAB | $4.5 Bil | -0.1% | -10.0% | -21.9% | -35.4% |
| CPRI | $1.5 Bil | -0.6% | -6.5% | -23.1% | -38.3% |
| FLO | $1.4 Bil | -0.1% | -6.8% | -8.9% | -51.1% |
| EVCM | $1.4 Bil | -1.7% | -12.1% | -33.8% | -29.6% |
| WINA | $1.1 Bil | -2.0% | -7.7% | -9.5% | -27.6% |
| ESRT | $0.8 Bil | 0.0% | -7.0% | -11.1% | -40.5% |
| PZZA | $0.7 Bil | -0.4% | -4.2% | -26.3% | -50.6% |
Is a new low always a sign of a broken business?
Not necessarily. TJX Companies saw its stock decline 16.4% over the last month, yet its revenue grew 7.7% over the last twelve months. The company trades at 23.9 times trailing earnings. A similar pattern appears in Lowe’s Companies (LOW), the second-largest name on the list with a market value of about $111.7 billion. While its stock is at a yearly low, Lowe’s revenue grew 8.2% over the last twelve months, and it trades at 16.8 times trailing earnings.
So how should an investor use this list?
A 52-week-low list is a signal, not a conclusion. It is a simple screen for stocks that have performed poorly, but it says nothing about why. A low can mark a business with genuine fundamental damage, or it can mark a solid business that has simply been marked down by the market. The disciplined move is to treat the list as a starting point for research, checking the health of the underlying business before reacting to 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.
Notice how many of these names sit in one corner of the market: 9 of the 18 are Industrials stocks. When a whole group is marked down together, an aerospace & defense ETF like MISL is one way to own an eventual recovery without betting on which single name survives it best.
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.