Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Tuesday’s Full List

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A steep one-month decline for one retailer highlights a key question for investors scanning today’s list of market lows.

The steepest one-month slide on today’s 52-week-low list belongs to Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS), down 39.5% over the last month. As of Tuesday, 12 US and Canada-listed stocks with a market value above $500 million are at their weakest price of the past year, a period where the S&P 500 (SPY) has returned +3.6% over the last month. The list includes the $49.0 billion L3Harris Technologies (LHX) and two members of the S&P 500.

The presence of growing companies on a low list always raises the same question: has the market mispriced a healthy business, or is the price drop a signal of trouble ahead? The full list of names follows.

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Every Name On The List

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The table below lists all 12 US and Canada-listed stocks in the Trefis coverage universe at their 52-week lows (the screen only considers companies with market values above $500 million), largest first, with one-day, one-week, one-month, and one-year returns:

Tickers Market
Cap
1D
% Chg
1W
% Chg
1M
% Chg
1Y
% Chg
LHX $49.0 Bil -0.3% -6.2% -13.6% -3.4%
LII $13.5 Bil -2.5% -5.3% -28.9% -33.6%
WSO $11.5 Bil -2.7% -3.6% -17.0% -24.9%
DKS $11.0 Bil -30.7% -35.1% -39.5% -44.1%
CRUS $5.6 Bil -0.2% -4.7% -18.1% -5.1%
PFSI $3.9 Bil -1.4% -1.5% -11.9% -31.5%
BGSI $2.4 Bil -1.6% -8.4% -20.6% -46.8%
OLN $2.0 Bil -1.1% -6.0% -20.6% -22.5%
CPRI $1.6 Bil -2.8% -7.8% -16.2% -38.1%
PMT $0.8 Bil 0.0% -1.5% -3.4% -13.8%
GOOS $0.8 Bil -0.7% -3.4% -9.9% -29.2%
ARRY $0.7 Bil -0.4% -5.2% -17.4% -49.8%

Which name shows the sharpest disconnect between price and performance?

Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS) stands out. Beyond its 39.5% price decline in a single month, the company’s revenue grew 41.2% over the last twelve months. It now trades at 12.2 times trailing earnings. For comparison, L3Harris Technologies (LHX), the largest name on the list, saw its stock decline 13.6% over the last month while its revenue grew 7.3% over the last twelve months. LHX trades at 26.2 times trailing earnings.

So is a new low a red flag or a green light?

A 52-week-low list is a starting point for research, not a conclusion. A stock at its yearly low can mark a business with genuine fundamental damage, or it can mark a temporarily marked-down business whose operations remain sound. The disciplined move is always to check the business before reacting to the price. A low price on a broken company is no bargain.

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.

Weakness Is Information. It Is Not An Instruction

A 52-week low tells you what the market thinks today. It does not tell you what to do, and acting on price alone is how value traps get bought. The missing ingredient is always the same: is the business still sound?

Asking that question across thousands of stocks, every day, is exactly how the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio is built: roughly 30 names that pass the quality screens, held with rules instead of nerve. 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. Let the low list sharpen your watchlist, and let the portfolio carry the risk.