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08/13/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/13/2026 00:32

Where The Selling Ran Deepest: 17 Stocks At 52-Week Lows

A list of stocks at their yearly lows contains some of the market's largest and fastest-growing names.

AppLovin (APP), a company with a market value of about $102.5 billion, has seen its stock decline 32.3% over the last month while the S&P 500 returned +2.7%. On Wednesday, August 12, it was one of 17 stocks from the Russell 3000 trading at a 52-week low.

That raises a central question for any investor seeing a business at its weakest price in a year: is the market punishing a broken company or offering a discounted one? The full list of names follows.

The Complete 52-Week-Low List

The table below lists every stock at its 52-week low, largest first, with one-day, one-week, one-month, and one-year returns:

Tickers Market
Cap
1D
% Chg
1W
% Chg
1M
% Chg
1Y
% Chg
APP $102.5 Bil -4.7% -27.3% -32.3% -34.8%
NKE $60.1 Bil -2.0% -4.6% -5.5% -43.8%
RBLX $25.3 Bil -1.9% -1.8% -34.8% -72.8%
ROL $17.6 Bil -1.3% -2.3% -17.1% -36.6%
RBA $16.1 Bil -3.5% -9.6% -20.8% -25.7%
TU $14.9 Bil -1.2% -2.9% -8.8% -35.0%
GME $8.3 Bil -1.5% -2.5% -17.3% -17.3%
ACM $7.9 Bil -9.0% -18.5% -11.0% -48.1%
WD $1.4 Bil -1.7% -17.7% -12.8% -43.3%
EMAT $1.4 Bil -0.9% -15.8% -58.2% n/a
UVV $1.1 Bil -2.2% -13.2% -10.3% -10.0%
OI $1.0 Bil -5.6% -9.6% -20.1% -47.9%
LZ $0.9 Bil -0.2% -33.0% -27.3% -51.0%
PLTK $0.9 Bil -11.4% -39.2% -40.0% -34.0%
COLL $0.8 Bil -1.1% -28.1% -26.6% -28.9%
LMB $0.5 Bil -3.1% -9.6% -39.8% -59.3%
AMSF $0.5 Bil -0.5% -6.6% -18.2% -33.4%

But is the underlying business actually broken?

For some names on this list, the price decline seems disconnected from business expansion. AppLovin's revenue grew 60.6% over the last twelve months, and it has a free cash flow yield of 4.4%. Similarly, Roblox (RBLX) saw its revenue grow 41.3% over the same period, with a free cash flow yield of 6.4%.

These figures stand apart from others on the list, like the $60.1 billion Nike (NKE), whose revenue grew 0.2% over the last twelve months.

So how should an investor use this list?

A 52-week-low list is not an automatic shopping list, nor is it a simple list of companies to avoid. It is a starting point for research. A new low can signal genuine damage to a company's prospects, or it can reflect a temporary market overreaction.

The disciplined move is to investigate the business behind the stock price. The price is what you pay, but the business is what you own.

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.

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