Large Cap Stocks At 52-Week Highs: Wednesday’s Full List
As of Wednesday, September 30, there are 6 Large Cap US and Canada-listed stocks in the Trefis coverage universe trading at their 52-week highs. Large Cap here means a market value above $40 billion.
At about $318.2 billion in market value, Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is the largest company on the list; its stock is up 4.0% over the past month and up 94.8% over the past year. Information Technology contributed the most names, 5 of the 6. For context, the S&P 500 is down 0.3% over the past month, including dividends.
Every Name On The List
The table below lists all 6 names this screen surfaced, largest first, with one-day, one-week, one-month and one-year returns:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D Return |
1W Return |
1M Return |
1Y Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PANW | $318.2 Bil | 2.3% | 1.0% | 4.0% | 94.8% |
| CRWD | $269.9 Bil | 0.8% | 0.9% | 14.6% | 116.8% |
| FTNT | $131.0 Bil | 1.6% | 0.0% | 4.6% | 111.2% |
| HPE | $85.4 Bil | 3.9% | 2.5% | 22.6% | 169.4% |
| WBD | $77.7 Bil | 0.3% | 0.6% | 8.5% | 64.1% |
| NTAP | $41.2 Bil | 0.4% | 7.0% | 13.4% | 80.3% |
Strong Prices, But How Strong Are The Businesses?
CrowdStrike (CRWD) grew revenue 24.3% over the last twelve months and posted an operating margin of -2.2%.
Across the list, one-month moves range from +4.0% for Palo Alto Networks (PANW) to +22.6% for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
Over the past year, the median name here is up 103.0%.
6 of the 6 names are also S&P 500 members.
A new high tells you what the market already believes. The harder question is which of these runs management itself is underwriting. Our Guidance Momentum screen tracks exactly that: stocks where the company raised its own forward numbers.
One more pattern worth noticing: 5 of the 6 names are Information Technology stocks. When a whole group is making new highs together, a technology ETF like XLK, which holds 4 of the 5 largest of them, is one way to own part of the group’s strength without betting on which single name leads it from here.
New Highs Fade. Discipline Compounds
Some of the names on this list will keep setting highs for years, and some are at the top of their run right now. Sorting one from the other, name by name, every day, is the work most investors never keep up with.
That sorting is what the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio does systematically: about 30 quality businesses screened for the fundamentals that sustain a run, held with rules instead of excitement. It has a track record of outpacing a benchmark that combines the S&P 500, the S&P MidCap 400, and the Russell 2000. Use the high list for ideas; use the portfolio for the compounding.