The 52-Week-High List: 7 S&P 500 Names On Monday
As of Monday, October 19, there are 7 S&P 500 stocks trading at their 52-week highs.
At about $1.15 trillion in market value, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) is the largest company on the list; its stock is up 4.4% over the past month and up 8.9% over the past year. By sector, Health Care leads the list with 3 of the 7 names. For context, the S&P 500 is up 0.6% over the past month, including dividends.
The Complete 52-Week-High List
The table below lists all 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRK-B | $1,146.8 Bil | 0.0% | 2.8% | 4.4% | 8.9% |
| V | $757.8 Bil | 0.1% | 3.5% | 9.4% | 21.1% |
| MCK | $119.9 Bil | 0.6% | 5.7% | 15.5% | 30.8% |
| ELV | $93.4 Bil | 0.5% | 1.9% | 4.7% | 26.0% |
| VEEV | $51.4 Bil | 2.1% | 7.1% | 21.7% | 8.2% |
| IFF | $23.2 Bil | 0.3% | 7.1% | 9.6% | 48.5% |
| APA | $17.6 Bil | 1.2% | 6.2% | 10.9% | 123.9% |
The Businesses Behind The Largest New Highs
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) trades at 13.4 times trailing earnings and grew revenue 10.4% over the last twelve months.
Visa (V) trades at 33.5 times trailing earnings, grew revenue 14.4% over the last twelve months and earned an operating margin of 65.6%.
Across the list, one-month moves range from +4.4% for Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) to +21.7% for Veeva Systems (VEEV).
The median stock on the list is up 26.0% 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: 3 of the 7 names are Health Care stocks. When a whole group is making new highs together, a health care ETF like XLV, which holds 3 of the 3 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.