Where The Selling Ran Deepest: 20 Stocks At 52-Week Lows
A list of stocks at their yearly lows includes some surprisingly large companies, raising questions about growth versus price.
Public Service Enterprise (PEG), a company with a market value of about $37.7 billion, is trading at its weakest price of the past year. It is one of 20 stocks from the Russell 3000 making new 52-week lows on Wednesday, a list that includes 5 S&P 500 members. This weakness comes as the broader S&P 500 has returned +3.0% over the last month.
The central question for any name on this list is whether the business itself is weakening with the stock price. Below is the full data table.
The Complete 52-Week-Low List
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Here are all 20 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEG | $37.7 Bil | -1.0% | -2.8% | -7.6% | -13.4% |
| CCI | $32.2 Bil | -4.9% | -6.6% | -4.4% | -27.8% |
| ROL | $18.1 Bil | -0.6% | -3.0% | -13.9% | -34.9% |
| APTV | $10.0 Bil | -1.5% | -18.9% | -20.1% | -27.5% |
| PODD | $9.3 Bil | -20.1% | -21.9% | -17.5% | -53.7% |
| GME | $8.5 Bil | -1.0% | -13.0% | -14.4% | -16.0% |
| PPC | $6.3 Bil | -1.4% | -11.3% | -7.6% | -45.8% |
| GPI | $3.3 Bil | -2.9% | -22.5% | -6.4% | -31.5% |
| BXMT | $2.4 Bil | -3.3% | -15.0% | -18.7% | -18.4% |
| LMAT | $1.8 Bil | -25.3% | -23.7% | -25.3% | -5.5% |
| EMAT | $1.7 Bil | -5.7% | -38.0% | -52.7% | n/a |
| WLFC | $1.3 Bil | -7.7% | -5.8% | -70.6% | -52.8% |
| ARDX | $1.2 Bil | -2.0% | -1.8% | -8.7% | 11.8% |
| BV | $1.0 Bil | -19.2% | -20.4% | -25.9% | -32.1% |
| PZZA | $1.0 Bil | -3.2% | -2.7% | -14.7% | -22.2% |
| AHCO | $0.9 Bil | -3.2% | -39.8% | -36.0% | -28.7% |
| ESRT | $0.8 Bil | -1.0% | -15.7% | -11.3% | -30.7% |
| PHAT | $0.7 Bil | -2.6% | -29.3% | -28.7% | -4.7% |
| LMB | $0.6 Bil | -35.5% | -26.5% | -36.3% | -63.1% |
| FISN | $0.6 Bil | -4.4% | -10.5% | -16.1% | -21.1% |
Is every company on this list shrinking?
A new low does not always signal a shrinking business. Public Service Enterprise (PEG) saw its revenue grow 12.7% over the last twelve months and now trades at 18.7 times trailing earnings. Similarly, Rollins (ROL) is on the list after a 13.9% one-month slide, yet its revenue grew 9.9% over the last year.
This contrasts with a name like Crown Castle (CCI), whose revenue declined 4.6% over the same period while it trades at 37.1 times trailing earnings. A stock’s price is not always a direct reflection of its recent business performance.
So is a new low a red flag or a green light?
A 52-week-low list is best treated as a starting point for questions, not a source of answers. The price of a stock can fall for many reasons, and a new low can mark either a genuinely damaged company or a temporarily marked-down one.
The disciplined move is to look past the ticker and investigate the fundamentals. The critical work begins after reading the list: checking the health of the underlying business before making any judgment on the price.
A 52-week-low list tells you where the pain is; it does not tell you which of these declines are worth buying. That second question is what our Buy the Dip screen answers, every day: beaten-down names where the fundamentals still hold up.
Catching Falling Prices Is A Skill. Not Needing To Is A Strategy
Buying stocks at 52-week lows works brilliantly on the survivors and painfully on the rest, and nobody rings a bell to tell you which is which. The honest answer for most investors is to stop needing that call.
The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio holds roughly 30 businesses selected for the traits that make recoveries likely in the first place: consistent cash generation, strong margins, resilient balance sheets. It has a track record of outpacing a benchmark that combines the three major indices – the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Watch the low list for information; let a disciplined basket do the buying.