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08/14/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/14/2026 01:42
The 52-Week-High List: 60 Small Cap Names On Thursday
A new list of market leaders is dominated by a single industry, raising questions about the nature of the day's strength.
Liberty Live (LLYVA), with a market value of about $9.6 billion, is the largest of 60 Small Cap stocks hitting a 52-week high on Thursday. The list is heavily concentrated, with Regional Banks accounting for 15 of the names. This clustering prompts a critical question: is this a broad tide lifting one sector, or are there individual businesses whose fundamentals justify their new highs? The full list follows.
The Biggest Names On The List
The table below shows the 10 largest of the 60 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers |
Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLYVA | $9.6 Bil | 1.4% | 4.6% | 6.7% | 16.7% |
| NEU | $8.8 Bil | 1.4% | 6.1% | 25.7% | 26.5% |
| BOKF | $8.7 Bil | 0.6% | 0.8% | 4.5% | 42.4% |
| PBF | $8.7 Bil | 5.7% | 21.4% | 26.5% | 250.6% |
| DBX | $8.5 Bil | 6.8% | 4.0% | 18.4% | 31.5% |
| S | $8.0 Bil | 6.9% | 14.8% | 21.8% | 46.3% |
| TWST | $7.7 Bil | 0.1% | 14.9% | 35.3% | 356.4% |
| VCTR | $7.5 Bil | 1.7% | 10.7% | 19.3% | 67.1% |
| NAVN | $7.4 Bil | 3.2% | 6.6% | 17.5% | n/a |
| ZETA | $7.1 Bil | 3.7% | 15.9% | 32.2% | 59.8% |
A high price does not always follow high growth.
NewMarket (NEU) has seen its stock gain 25.7% over the last month, yet its revenue declined 1.3% over the last twelve months. The company trades at 20.0 times trailing earnings with an operating margin of 20.0%. In contrast, PBF Energy (PBF) trades at a lower 6.5 times trailing earnings. For PBF, revenue grew 13.5% over the last twelve months and its operating margin is 2.6%.
A 52-week high is a starting point for research, not a conclusion.
Strength often persists, and a stock at its strongest price of the last year is a sign of positive market reception. But a price is not a verdict on the business itself. The disciplined next step is to look past the ticker and into the financials. A new high is an invitation to verify whether the underlying business truly earns its new valuation.
Before chasing any name on this list, ask what the company itself expects next. Our Guidance Momentum screen surfaces the stocks whose managements just raised their own outlooks, which is the momentum that tends to have staying power.
One more pattern worth noticing: 25 of the 60 names are Financials stocks. When a whole group is making new highs together, a s&p regional banking ETF like KRE is one way to own the group's strength without betting on which single name leads it from here.
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 three major indices - the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Use the high list for ideas; use the portfolio for the compounding.
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