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09/08/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/08/2026 00:21
13 Stocks Hit 52-Week Lows On Friday
A list of market laggards includes some of the market's largest and most established names.
McDonald's (MCD), a company with a market value of about $181.3 billion, is now trading at a 52-week low after its stock declined 6.8% over the last month. It is the largest of 13 US and Canada-listed stocks with market values above $500 million to hit new yearly lows as of Friday. The presence of such a large company on this list, while the S&P 500 returned +0.2% over the last month, raises a critical question: is this weakness isolated, or is it a sign of something broader? The full list follows.
The Complete 52-Week-Low List
Here are all 13 names, sorted by market capitalization, with returns over four windows:
| Tickers |
Market Cap |
1D % Chg |
1W % Chg |
1M % Chg |
1Y % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCD | $181.3 Bil | -1.5% | -2.8% | -6.8% | -17.3% |
| LHX | $47.8 Bil | -1.7% | -2.0% | -11.0% | -4.1% |
| VICI | $27.7 Bil | -0.9% | -1.7% | -4.2% | -19.2% |
| TXT | $13.7 Bil | -0.4% | -4.8% | -10.0% | -2.7% |
| LULU | $11.6 Bil | -17.4% | -16.7% | -19.3% | -51.2% |
| KRMN | $5.3 Bil | -1.3% | -12.3% | -27.5% | -25.1% |
| WING | $3.0 Bil | -1.0% | -3.9% | -6.1% | -64.4% |
| EVCM | $1.4 Bil | -0.1% | -13.9% | -25.4% | -30.0% |
| FLO | $1.3 Bil | -2.8% | -11.7% | -13.4% | -53.4% |
| ENOV | $1.1 Bil | -4.3% | -25.5% | -29.5% | -41.2% |
| PLTK | $0.8 Bil | -1.8% | -5.2% | -33.1% | -37.6% |
| COLL | $0.8 Bil | -0.7% | -7.2% | -19.2% | -40.0% |
| ADTN | $0.6 Bil | -0.7% | -8.0% | -5.3% | -26.6% |
Some names on this list show business growth despite their stock price.
The Industrials sector placed 3 names on today's list, all from the Aerospace & Defense industry. L3Harris Technologies (LHX), for one, has seen its stock decline 11.0% over the last month. Yet over the last twelve months, its revenue grew 7.3%. The company trades at 25.7 times trailing earnings. Similarly, Textron (TXT) saw its revenue grow 8.8% over the last twelve months and trades at 14.6 times trailing earnings.
A low price is a starting point for questions, not an answer.
A 52-week-low list is a blunt instrument. It flags stocks that have performed poorly but reveals nothing about why. A low can mark a permanently damaged business, or it can mark a temporarily out-of-favor one whose underlying operations remain sound. The disciplined move is to treat the price as a signal to check the business, not as a conclusion in itself.
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.
Catching Falling Prices Is A Skill. Not Needing To Is A Strategy
Buying stocks at 52-week lows works brilliantly on the survivors and painfully on the rest, and nobody rings a bell to tell you which is which. The honest answer for most investors is to stop needing that call.
The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio holds roughly 30 businesses selected for the traits that make recoveries likely in the first place: consistent cash generation, strong margins, resilient balance sheets. 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. Watch the low list for information; let a disciplined basket do the buying.
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