S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Wednesday’s Full List
A short list of market laggards raises a sharp question about the difference between a stock’s price and its business.
Nike (NKE), with a market value of about $57.2 billion, is the largest of just 3 S&P 500 stocks trading at 52-week lows on Wednesday. The market itself has moved in the opposite direction, with the S&P 500 returning +3.4% over the last month.
This small list presents a sharp question for investors: what does it mean when a company’s stock price weakens significantly while its business continues to grow? The full data on today’s names follows.
Every Name On The List
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- Market Movers | Winners: ANF, GTN-A, CAPR | Losers: GENB, EMAT, SYRE
- Where The Buying Ran Strongest: 10 Mid Cap Stocks At 52-Week Highs
Here are all 3 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NKE | $57.2 Bil | -2.3% | -6.0% | -10.4% | -49.9% |
| APTV | $9.9 Bil | -0.8% | -5.4% | -22.1% | -41.3% |
| TTD | $6.2 Bil | -1.7% | -3.8% | -31.1% | -75.1% |
Is the steepest slide attached to the strongest business?
Trade Desk (TTD) has seen the most severe decline here, down 31.1% over the last month. Yet its fundamentals appear solid. Over the last twelve months, its revenue grew 11.6%, the fastest on this list.
The company also trades at 15.0 times trailing earnings and shows a free cash flow yield of 13.9%. This combination of a steep price drop with double-digit revenue growth makes it the standout.
Is a 52-week low a warning sign or a watchlist candidate?
A stock at its weakest price of the year is a data point, not a conclusion. The price alone cannot distinguish between a business with genuine fundamental damage and a healthy one that has simply been marked down by the market.
The disciplined move is to treat the list as a starting point for research. Before looking at the price chart, an investor should examine the business itself, beginning with measures like revenue growth and cash flow.
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.