22 S&P 500 Stocks Just Made New 52-Week Highs
A small group of stocks is hitting new highs against a falling market, but not all strength is created equal.
On Wednesday, 22 S&P 500 stocks reached their 52-week highs, a small group finding strength even as the broader S&P 500 returned -1.6% over the last month. The largest name on the list is Visa (V), with a market value of about $666.7 billion.
This raises a critical question for any name on the list: is the new high a sign of durable business performance, or has the price simply run ahead of the fundamentals? Below are the names making the move.
The Biggest Names On The List
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The table below shows the 10 largest of the 22 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V | $666.7 Bil | 0.6% | 4.3% | 7.9% | 4.5% |
| ABBV | $466.0 Bil | 0.0% | 3.9% | 4.3% | 44.0% |
| KO | $383.2 Bil | 0.9% | 8.4% | 7.8% | 34.5% |
| MO | $125.3 Bil | 0.1% | 3.8% | 1.2% | 36.2% |
| MDLZ | $83.4 Bil | 4.0% | 6.8% | 9.0% | -3.4% |
| ROST | $80.4 Bil | 0.4% | 5.8% | 20.7% | 80.5% |
| ALL | $71.2 Bil | 0.7% | 9.0% | 13.7% | 45.8% |
| TGT | $66.2 Bil | 1.2% | 5.8% | 8.9% | 43.1% |
| CTVA | $60.9 Bil | 1.8% | 2.2% | 8.6% | 26.2% |
| GRMN | $56.8 Bil | 16.2% | 22.6% | 26.1% | 26.8% |
Does the business performance justify the stock price?
Visa (V), the largest company on the list, pairs its new high with revenue growth of 14.4% over the last twelve months and an operating margin of 65.6%. It trades at 30.7 times trailing earnings.
In contrast, AbbVie (ABBV) trades at 128.2 times trailing earnings. That valuation is set against revenue growth of 9.5% over the last twelve months and an operating margin of 33.2%.
Is a 52-week high a signal to buy or a warning?
A list of stocks at their strongest price of the last year is a map of what is working in the market. Strength can be persistent. But a 52-week high is a price, not a verdict on the underlying business.
The disciplined approach is to treat the list as a starting point for research. The essential question is not whether the stock is at a high, but whether the business itself is strong enough to earn that valuation and grow into it.
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.
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