S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Highs: Friday’s Full List
As of Friday, October 2, there are 9 S&P 500 stocks trading at their 52-week highs.
At about $1.03 trillion in market value, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is the largest company on the list; its stock is up 38.7% over the past month and up 286.5% over the past year. Information Technology contributed the most names, 8 of the 9. For context, the S&P 500 is up 0.8% over the past month, including dividends.
Every Name On The List
Here are all 9 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D Return |
1W Return |
1M Return |
1Y Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD | $1,034.5 Bil | 3.0% | 0.5% | 38.7% | 286.5% |
| PANW | $326.2 Bil | 1.8% | 7.6% | 22.8% | 95.0% |
| CRWD | $275.3 Bil | 1.5% | 7.1% | 32.7% | 116.0% |
| FTNT | $132.7 Bil | 1.2% | 4.3% | 17.1% | 112.4% |
| JCI | $95.0 Bil | 2.9% | 4.0% | 12.5% | 45.2% |
| LITE | $92.7 Bil | 3.8% | 15.3% | 24.7% | 533.3% |
| HPE | $92.6 Bil | 7.4% | 10.2% | 34.1% | 183.1% |
| KEYS | $65.8 Bil | 2.9% | 6.2% | 19.6% | 122.2% |
| NTAP | $44.3 Bil | 5.2% | 12.5% | 25.2% | 94.3% |
The Businesses Behind The Largest New Highs
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) trades at 160.8 times trailing earnings, grew revenue 39.5% over the last twelve months and earned an operating margin of 15.7%.
Across the list, one-month moves range from +12.5% for Johnson Controls International (JCI) to +38.7% for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
The median stock on the list is up 116.0% over the past year.
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: 8 of the 9 names are Information Technology stocks. When a whole group is making new highs together, a technology ETF like XLK, which holds 6 of the 6 largest of them, is one way to own part of the group’s strength without betting on which single name leads it from here.
Chasing Highs Is A Reflex. Owning Strength Is A System
A 52-week-high list is seductive: everything on it has been going right. But buying a stock because it is at its high is buying a price, and prices revert; what persists is the quality underneath the run.
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