The 52-Week-High List: 5 Large Cap Names On Tuesday
As of Tuesday, October 27, there are 5 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.
Amgen (AMGN), with a market value of about $241.9 billion, is the largest company on the list; its stock is up 7.1% over the past month and up 57.8% over the past year. Health Care contributed the most names, 3 of the 5. For context, the S&P 500 is up 0.6% over the past month, including dividends.
The Full List, Largest First
The table below lists all 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMGN | $241.9 Bil | 0.7% | 2.1% | 7.1% | 57.8% |
| TD | $207.0 Bil | 0.4% | 3.0% | 5.9% | 60.0% |
| GILD | $197.7 Bil | 0.2% | 1.6% | 4.5% | 34.8% |
| EMR | $92.9 Bil | 2.8% | 3.6% | 4.3% | 27.3% |
| WAT | $46.0 Bil | 2.8% | 5.8% | 5.8% | 30.3% |
Strong Prices, But How Strong Are The Businesses?
Amgen (AMGN) trades at 27.7 times trailing earnings, grew revenue 9.1% over the last twelve months and earned an operating margin of 30.0%.
Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) trades at 12.8 times trailing earnings and grew revenue 8.2% over the last twelve months.
Across the list, one-month moves range from +4.3% for Emerson Electric (EMR) to +7.1% for Amgen (AMGN).
The median stock on the list is up 34.8% over the past year.
4 of the 5 names are also S&P 500 members.
Before chasing any name on this list, ask what the company itself expects next. Our Guidance Momentum screen surfaces the stocks whose managements just raised their own outlooks.
One more pattern worth noticing: 3 of the 5 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.