21 S&P 500 Stocks Hit 52-Week Lows On Tuesday
A pair of retail giants land on the new-lows list, raising questions about an entire industry.
By industry, the list is led by Home Improvement Retail, which placed 2 names at their weakest price of the past year. As of Tuesday, September 29, there are 21 S&P 500 stocks trading at their 52-week lows. The two largest companies on the list are from that same industry: Home Depot (HD), with a market value of about $286.3 billion, and Lowe’s Companies (LOW).
With the top two names on the list coming from a single industry, the immediate question is whether the weakness is specific to the companies or a broader pattern. The data here shows only price, not cause, but the clustering is hard to ignore.
The Full List, Largest First
Here are all 21 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HD | $286.3 Bil | -0.6% | -5.7% | -12.1% | -27.8% |
| LOW | $104.7 Bil | -0.2% | -4.5% | -10.0% | -25.7% |
| CMCSA | $77.0 Bil | -0.9% | -3.7% | -20.2% | -24.0% |
| LHX | $44.0 Bil | -0.5% | -1.4% | -9.6% | -18.1% |
| CCI | $29.0 Bil | -0.0% | -7.3% | -10.6% | -26.0% |
| MLM | $28.8 Bil | -2.4% | -4.1% | -9.6% | -21.5% |
| CPRT | $25.4 Bil | -0.3% | -5.7% | -17.7% | -39.5% |
| OTIS | $25.1 Bil | -1.1% | -3.6% | -8.5% | -25.8% |
| LVS | $25.1 Bil | -1.2% | -3.5% | -14.9% | -27.5% |
| FISV | $24.2 Bil | -1.4% | -1.6% | -14.7% | -65.0% |
| EXE | $20.1 Bil | -1.3% | -3.3% | -14.2% | -18.6% |
| STZ | $19.6 Bil | -0.1% | -4.1% | -13.7% | -12.4% |
| SBAC | $17.3 Bil | -0.4% | -7.4% | -14.7% | -14.0% |
| FIS | $17.2 Bil | -2.8% | -4.6% | -18.6% | -46.1% |
| EFX | $16.7 Bil | -3.4% | -11.9% | -27.3% | -44.0% |
| WY | $14.1 Bil | -0.9% | -9.2% | -16.5% | -17.4% |
| FICO | $14.0 Bil | -26.5% | -32.4% | -46.4% | -59.3% |
| CHTR | $13.3 Bil | -0.7% | -5.6% | -28.0% | -59.5% |
| LII | $12.5 Bil | -2.6% | -3.5% | -8.8% | -30.5% |
| CSGP | $10.9 Bil | -0.3% | -6.3% | -16.4% | -67.9% |
| WYNN | $8.0 Bil | -2.8% | -5.2% | -17.9% | -38.8% |
Is the business broken or just the stock price?
Comcast (CMCSA) is a notable name on the list. The stock has declined 20.2% over the last month. Yet its fundamentals over a different period tell another story. Comcast trades at 6.9 times trailing earnings, and its revenue grew 0.6% over the last twelve months, and its free cash flow yield is 23.1%. A business still growing its top line, even slightly, presents a very different case than one in reverse.
A low price is a starting point, not a conclusion.
A 52-week-low list is not an automatic buy signal. It is a list of problems to be diagnosed. A stock at its yearly low can be a sign of real fundamental damage, or it can be a quality business that has simply been marked down. The disciplined move is to investigate the 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.
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 S&P 500, the S&P MidCap 400, and the Russell 2000. Let the low list sharpen your watchlist, and let the portfolio carry the risk.