S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Friday’s Full List

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As of Friday, October 2, there are 21 S&P 500 stocks trading at their 52-week lows.

Netflix (NFLX), with a market value of about $280.9 billion, is the largest company on the list; its stock is down 18.9% over the past month and down 42.7% over the past year. For context, the S&P 500 is up 0.8% over the past month, including dividends.

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The Complete 52-Week-Low List

The table below lists all 21 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
NFLX $280.9 Bil -1.2% -5.7% -18.9% -42.7%
LOW $101.1 Bil -0.9% -4.5% -9.5% -25.6%
APP $90.1 Bil -4.7% -13.7% -15.9% -61.9%
CMCSA $76.9 Bil -0.6% -1.6% -19.5% -23.0%
NOC $67.9 Bil -0.8% -6.4% -8.7% -19.8%
BSX $62.6 Bil -1.5% -3.0% -11.9% -55.6%
AON $57.4 Bil -2.4% -3.1% -18.6% -24.5%
NKE $50.2 Bil -3.6% -5.3% -11.4% -52.8%
AZO $46.0 Bil -1.0% -2.8% -4.9% -34.3%
VICI $24.7 Bil -0.4% -3.7% -9.9% -26.4%
OTIS $24.5 Bil -0.7% -2.9% -9.6% -29.2%
LVS $23.7 Bil -1.3% -7.1% -18.7% -32.4%
FISV $23.6 Bil -2.2% -4.6% -14.7% -64.8%
NRG $20.1 Bil -1.8% -5.1% -14.3% -40.5%
FIS $16.7 Bil -2.0% -8.4% -21.6% -49.4%
MAA $13.4 Bil -1.0% -2.6% -10.4% -12.5%
WY $13.3 Bil -0.6% -7.7% -19.6% -23.3%
CHTR $13.1 Bil -1.9% -3.2% -31.3% -60.3%
LULU $10.7 Bil -1.5% -6.8% -21.3% -46.8%
CLX $9.8 Bil -0.3% -4.0% -14.7% -31.4%
WYNN $7.8 Bil -1.8% -6.5% -17.1% -42.0%

Damaged Businesses Or Marked-Down Prices?

Netflix (NFLX) trades at 20.6 times trailing earnings, grew revenue 16.0% over the last twelve months and offers a free cash flow yield of 4.0%.

Lowe’s Companies (LOW) trades at 15.2 times trailing earnings, grew revenue 8.2% over the last twelve months and offers a free cash flow yield of 6.9%.

Across the list, one-month moves range from -31.3% for Charter Communications (CHTR) to -4.9% for AutoZone (AZO).

The median stock on the list is down 34.3% over the past year.

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.