27 Small Cap Stocks Just Made New 52-Week Highs
As of Friday, November 6, there are 27 Small Cap US and Canada-listed stocks in the Trefis coverage universe trading at their 52-week highs. Small Cap here means a market value between $2 billion and $10 billion, the upper figure excluded.
At about $6.9 billion in market value, e.l.f. Beauty (ELF) is the largest company on the list; its stock is up 9.6% over the past month and down 1.4% over the past year. Health Care contributed the most names, 10 of the 27. For context, the S&P 500 is down 4.9% over the past month, including dividends.
The Ten Largest At New Highs
The table below shows the 10 largest of the 27 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers | Market Cap |
1D Return |
1W Return |
1M Return |
1Y Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELF | $6.9 Bil | 5.7% | 4.0% | 9.6% | -1.4% |
| FTDR | $6.7 Bil | 1.2% | 10.8% | 22.0% | 75.7% |
| XMTR | $6.6 Bil | 5.4% | 22.7% | 8.0% | 83.4% |
| BKH | $6.5 Bil | 0.3% | 3.5% | 10.9% | 36.2% |
| NIQ | $6.0 Bil | 2.5% | 3.0% | 14.0% | 69.6% |
| NWE | $5.1 Bil | 0.9% | 3.7% | 10.9% | 40.9% |
| COLD | $4.6 Bil | 1.3% | 11.4% | 15.9% | 34.2% |
| APLE | $4.5 Bil | 4.0% | 1.9% | 16.9% | 78.1% |
| ARX | $4.3 Bil | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.7% | 61.6% |
| IPAR | $4.3 Bil | 0.2% | 16.5% | 21.5% | 53.6% |
Strong Prices, But How Strong Are The Businesses?
e.l.f. Beauty (ELF) grew revenue 39.9% over the last twelve months and earned an operating margin of 13.6%.
Frontdoor (FTDR) trades at 23.5 times trailing earnings, grew revenue 7.1% over the last twelve months and earned an operating margin of 19.9%.
Across the list, one-month moves range from +0.7% for Accelerant (ARX) to +56.3% for Ardent Health (ARDT).
Over the past year, the median name here is up 55.2%.
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.
New Highs Fade. Discipline Compounds
Some of the names on this list will keep setting highs for years, and some are at the top of their run right now. Sorting one from the other, name by name, every day, is the work most investors never keep up with.
That sorting is what the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio does systematically: about 30 quality businesses screened for the fundamentals that sustain a run, held with rules instead of excitement. It has a track record of outpacing a benchmark that combines the S&P 500, the S&P MidCap 400, and the Russell 2000. Use the high list for ideas; use the portfolio for the compounding.