S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Highs: Friday’s Full List
A small group of market leaders is breaking out, but not all new highs are created equal.
The largest company on today’s 52-week-high list, Arista Networks, has a market value of about $235.1 billion and has gained 22.9% over the last month. As of Friday, July 10, it is one of 17 S&P 500 stocks at its strongest price of the last year, a period where the index itself returned +2.4%.
This raises a critical question for any disciplined investor: does the underlying business performance of these leaders earn such a powerful run? The full list of names follows.
Friday’s Full 52-Week-High List
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The table below shows the 10 largest of the 17 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANET | $235.1 Bil | 1.2% | 16.9% | 22.9% | 75.9% |
| UNP | $170.2 Bil | 0.7% | 1.7% | 5.8% | 24.1% |
| CSX | $91.9 Bil | 0.1% | 1.1% | 4.5% | 50.3% |
| MPC | $83.7 Bil | 0.2% | 6.5% | 9.9% | 61.4% |
| NSC | $73.5 Bil | 1.1% | 1.5% | 4.9% | 28.3% |
| ALL | $65.3 Bil | 1.2% | 0.5% | 15.9% | 32.2% |
| GWW | $65.1 Bil | 0.8% | 2.4% | 3.5% | 32.8% |
| D | $61.6 Bil | 0.9% | 0.5% | 5.8% | 28.0% |
| STT | $50.2 Bil | 0.0% | 5.6% | 10.9% | 69.0% |
| MTB | $36.2 Bil | 1.8% | 1.4% | 7.5% | 24.5% |
Are these new highs built on solid business growth?
Arista Networks (ANET) stands out for its fundamentals. The stock trades at 63.2 times trailing earnings, but its revenue grew 30.6% over the last twelve months with an operating margin of 42.8%.
The picture is different in the Rail Transportation cluster, which has 3 names on the list. CSX (CSX), for example, reached its high even as its revenue declined 0.9% over the last twelve months. Union Pacific (UNP) saw revenue grow just 1.9%.
What is the right way to treat a 52-week-high list?
Strength is often a persistent signal in the market. Stocks at new highs have a tendency to continue their runs. But a price is just a price, not a verdict on a company’s quality or future.
The disciplined move is to treat this list not as a set of buy signals, but as a starting point for work. The essential question is always whether the business fundamentals, growth, margins, and earnings, can support the stock’s new, higher valuation.
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.
Strength Is A Clue. It Is Not A Plan
A stock at its 52-week high has momentum on its side, and momentum is a real force. It is also the most crowded signal in the market, and the difference between a run that lasts and one that tops is always the business underneath.
Checking that business, across thousands of names, is how the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio is assembled: roughly 30 companies that pass the quality screens, rebalanced on rules. It has a track record of outpacing a benchmark that combines all major indices – the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Let the highs point; let the discipline decide.