Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Friday’s Full List
A list of market lows features some of the market’s largest and most familiar companies.
McDonald’s (MCD), with a market value of about $179.1 billion, is the largest company hitting a new low today. As of Friday, September 11, 45 US and Canada-listed stocks in the Trefis coverage universe are trading at their 52-week lows. The weakness in these names comes as the S&P 500 has returned -1.1% over the last month.
The presence of several large, well-known businesses is the list’s defining feature. When a company like TJX Companies (TJX) declines 17.2% over the last month, does the new low reflect a damaged business or a discounted one?
Friday’s Full 52-Week-Low List
Here are all 45 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCD | $179.1 Bil | -0.2% | -2.7% | -7.8% | -15.3% |
| TJX | $139.4 Bil | -0.3% | -4.7% | -17.2% | -8.8% |
| AON | $64.5 Bil | -1.7% | -7.4% | -14.1% | -15.7% |
| AZO | $47.4 Bil | -0.2% | -3.1% | -5.6% | -32.4% |
| LHX | $45.7 Bil | -1.1% | -5.9% | -15.1% | -9.4% |
| IDXX | $39.8 Bil | -0.4% | -4.6% | -11.5% | -20.9% |
| CMS | $20.8 Bil | -0.8% | -2.1% | -4.1% | -2.8% |
| SUI | $14.0 Bil | -0.4% | -4.5% | -3.3% | -7.7% |
| LII | $12.7 Bil | -1.8% | -5.2% | -13.0% | -33.8% |
| COO | $10.5 Bil | -0.5% | -23.7% | -29.7% | -20.3% |
| PODD | $9.1 Bil | -2.0% | -12.4% | -9.0% | -60.9% |
| PNR | $9.1 Bil | -0.3% | -5.7% | -14.0% | -47.6% |
| WYNN | $9.0 Bil | -0.8% | -4.2% | -14.6% | -28.0% |
| GIL | $9.0 Bil | -1.0% | -9.7% | -15.0% | -9.1% |
| CNM | $7.7 Bil | -0.6% | -7.6% | -11.8% | -16.4% |
| OKLO | $6.4 Bil | -9.2% | -9.1% | -19.7% | -50.9% |
| BEPC | $5.6 Bil | -0.3% | -2.3% | -11.0% | -5.0% |
| TTAN | $5.2 Bil | -2.4% | -41.3% | -40.6% | -52.2% |
| BYND | $5.1 Bil | -2.3% | -9.4% | -17.8% | -86.3% |
| SITE | $4.1 Bil | -2.1% | -5.7% | -3.9% | -35.2% |
| HHH | $3.6 Bil | -0.1% | -3.1% | -7.7% | -21.9% |
| OPEN | $2.7 Bil | -0.4% | -10.9% | -20.1% | -52.4% |
| ALHC | $2.6 Bil | -1.2% | -6.9% | -6.7% | -23.3% |
| SUPN | $2.4 Bil | -0.1% | -5.3% | -13.0% | -9.9% |
| PATK | $2.3 Bil | -2.0% | -10.0% | -14.9% | -33.0% |
| WHR | $2.3 Bil | -1.9% | -8.5% | -17.8% | -61.5% |
| BXMT | $2.3 Bil | -1.0% | -5.7% | -6.5% | -25.7% |
| MPT | $2.2 Bil | -0.8% | -7.8% | -8.0% | -13.2% |
| GT | $1.6 Bil | -3.1% | -12.1% | -11.1% | -37.3% |
| ANIP | $1.5 Bil | -1.8% | -2.5% | -6.6% | -28.0% |
| RARE | $1.5 Bil | -0.7% | -3.7% | -46.8% | -54.3% |
| HLMN | $1.4 Bil | 0.0% | -9.1% | -21.7% | -28.6% |
| UTI | $1.1 Bil | -1.4% | -6.0% | -20.8% | -25.2% |
| EVCM | $1.1 Bil | -3.4% | -20.4% | -36.7% | -44.5% |
| WINA | $1.1 Bil | -0.5% | -2.8% | -10.7% | -35.8% |
| ARDX | $0.9 Bil | -1.1% | -3.5% | -9.8% | -46.1% |
| SMPL | $0.9 Bil | -3.9% | -14.4% | -10.1% | -63.8% |
| PMT | $0.8 Bil | 0.0% | -4.8% | -3.3% | -15.0% |
| COLL | $0.7 Bil | -0.7% | -4.0% | -11.5% | -39.7% |
| PZZA | $0.7 Bil | -4.2% | -8.8% | -14.7% | -57.1% |
| ENVX | $0.7 Bil | -1.3% | -8.0% | -34.5% | -66.1% |
| MATW | $0.6 Bil | -0.2% | -5.2% | -14.0% | -15.8% |
| BRSP | $0.6 Bil | -0.9% | -4.5% | -10.3% | -15.3% |
| VRRM | $0.5 Bil | -2.7% | -15.5% | -24.5% | -85.4% |
| NB | $0.5 Bil | -0.1% | -7.2% | -27.1% | -15.4% |
The list’s largest names are still growing.
McDonald’s (MCD) trades at 20.4 times trailing earnings, and its revenue grew 6.3% over the last twelve months, and its free cash flow yield is 4.3%. TJX Companies (TJX) trades at 22.9 times trailing earnings, and its revenue grew 7.7% over the last twelve months, and its free cash flow yield is 4.2%.
Even Aon (AON), the third-largest name on the list, shows a similar pattern. The company trades at 16.5 times trailing earnings, and its revenue grew 4.9% over the last twelve months, and its free cash flow yield is 5.0%. For these companies, recent price weakness has not coincided with a decline in trailing twelve-month revenue.
Is a new low a red flag or a green light?
A 52-week-low list is a starting point for research, not a conclusion. A stock at its weakest price of the year can signal real fundamental damage, but it can also represent a healthy business that has been marked down by the market.
The disciplined move is to investigate the business before the price. A low is just a number; the quality of the underlying enterprise is what determines whether that number is a warning or an opportunity.
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 S&P 500, the S&P MidCap 400, and the Russell 2000. Watch the low list for information; let a disciplined basket do the buying.