Stocks Trading Near 52-Week Highs and Lows
Momentum trading strategies often involve the buying of stocks that are trading at or near their 52-week high in the expectation that the stock will continue to reach new highs. See study "52-Week High and Momentum Investing" cited below for evidence on the effectiveness of this trading strategy.Contrarian trading strategies, on the other hand, can involve buying stocks at or near 52-week lows in anticipation that a bottom may be near, but this strategy can be quite risky, as such stocks tend to be highly volatile in either direction.
Short selling stocks at 52-week lows may be quite profitable, but is also dangerous, as stocks will frequently bounce higher after hitting 52-week lows, even if they are headed far lower in the longer term.
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S&P 100 Stocks Near 52-Week Highs
(As of market close 10/19/2018)| Ticker - Company | Closing Price | 52 Week Low | 52 Week High | Price Relative to 52 Week Range (0 to 100%) |
| AGN - Allergan Plc | $189.53 | $143.80 | $193.46 | 93% |
| DIS - Walt Disney Company | $118.90 | $97.80 | $118.90 | 100% |
| EXC - Exelon Corporation | $44.13 | $35.98 | $44.62 | 95% |
| MRK - Merck & Co | $72.35 | $53.27 | $72.35 | 100% |
| NEE - NextEra Energy | $173.46 | $145.29 | $175.17 | 95% |
| PFE - Pfizer Inc | $44.50 | $33.63 | $45.47 | 93% |
| UNH - UnitedHealth Group Inc. | $265.30 | $207.01 | $272.57 | 90% |
| VZ - Verizon Communications | $54.90 | $44.11 | $55.02 | 99% |
S&P 100 Stocks Near 52-Week Lows
(As of market close 10/19/2018)| Ticker - Company | Closing Price | 52 Week Low | 52 Week High | Price Relative to 52 Week Range (0 to 100%) |
| ABBV - AbbVie Inc | $87.97 | $87.97 | $123.21 | 0% |
| AIG - American International Group | $47.20 | $47.20 | $65.13 | 0% |
| BK - Bank of New York Mellon Corporation | $47.40 | $47.40 | $58.42 | 0% |
| BLK - Blackrock Incorporated | $401.65 | $399.87 | $593.26 | 1% |
| CAT - Caterpillar Inc | $131.32 | $131.32 | $170.89 | 0% |
| DWDP - DowDuPont Inc | $57.49 | $57.49 | $77.02 | 0% |
| F - Ford Motor Co | $ 8.50 | $ 8.50 | $13.23 | 0% |
| FB - Facebook Inc | $154.05 | $151.38 | $217.50 | 5% |
| FDX - Fedex Corp | $219.80 | $214.45 | $274.32 | 10% |
| GD - General Dynamics Corp | $190.26 | $185.89 | $229.95 | 11% |
| GM - General Motors Company | $31.20 | $31.08 | $46.48 | 1% |
| HAL - Halliburton Co | $37.54 | $36.69 | $56.83 | 5% |
| IBM - International Business Machines Corporation | $129.10 | $129.10 | $169.12 | 0% |
| MET - Metlife Inc | $43.84 | $43.40 | $55.73 | 4% |
| MMM - 3M Company | $199.85 | $194.39 | $258.63 | 10% |
| SLB - Schlumberger Ltd | $58.47 | $58.43 | $79.79 | 0% |
52-Week Highs and Lows, and Price Relative to 52-Week Range, of all S&P 100 Stocks
(As of market close 10/19/2018)| Ticker - Company | Closing Price | 52 Week Low | 52 Week High | Price Relative to 52 Week Range (0 to 100%) |
| AAPL - Apple Inc | $219.31 | $155.15 | $232.07 | 86% |
| ABBV - AbbVie Inc | $87.97 | $87.97 | $123.21 | 0% |
| ABT - Abbott Laboratories | $67.59 | $54.00 | $74.12 | 71% |
| ACN - Accenture Ltd | $158.28 | $138.91 | $174.19 | 58% |
| AGN - Allergan Plc | $189.53 | $143.80 | $193.46 | 93% |
| AIG - American International Group | $47.20 | $47.20 | $65.13 | 0% |
| ALL - Allstate Corporation | $97.32 | $90.06 | $104.91 | 51% |
| AMGN - Amgen Inc | $201.80 | $166.05 | $208.89 | 85% |
| AMZN - Amazon.Com Inc | $1764.03 | $966.30 | $2039.51 | 81% |
| AXP - American Express Co | $106.73 | $88.34 | $111.11 | 82% |
| BA - Boeing Co | $356.26 | $256.46 | $392.30 | 77% |
| BAC - Bank Of America Corp | $28.32 | $26.24 | $32.84 | 34% |
| BIIB - Biogen Inc | $320.41 | $257.52 | $383.83 | 55% |
| BK - Bank of New York Mellon Corporation | $47.40 | $47.40 | $58.42 | 0% |
| BKNG - Booking Holdings, Inc | $1805.74 | $1645.72 | $2206.09 | 32% |
| BLK - Blackrock Incorporated | $401.65 | $399.87 | $593.26 | 1% |
| BMY - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | $54.30 | $50.53 | $68.98 | 23% |
| BRKB - Berkshire Hathaway Cl B | $209.83 | $181.06 | $223.76 | 70% |
| C - Citigroup | $68.86 | $65.46 | $80.08 | 25% |
| CAT - Caterpillar Inc | $131.32 | $131.32 | $170.89 | 0% |
| CELG - Celgene Corp | $82.41 | $74.69 | $122.37 | 20% |
| CHTR - Charter Communications | $321.34 | $261.04 | $387.50 | 53% |
| CL - Colgate-Palmolive Co | $64.52 | $61.65 | $77.50 | 20% |
| CMCSA - Comcast Corp Cl A | $35.98 | $30.59 | $42.99 | 48% |
| COF - Capital One Financial Cp | $91.63 | $86.00 | $105.71 | 31% |
| COP - ConocoPhillips | $72.49 | $49.16 | $79.89 | 80% |
| COST - Costco Wholesale Corp | $229.67 | $160.23 | $244.21 | 85% |
| CSCO - Cisco Systems Inc | $45.34 | $33.95 | $49.14 | 78% |
| CVS - CVS Health Corporation | $74.18 | $60.60 | $83.63 | 63% |
| CVX - Chevron Corp | $118.14 | $109.06 | $133.60 | 39% |
| DHR - Danaher Corp | $100.39 | $90.47 | $109.29 | 55% |
| DIS - Walt Disney Company | $118.90 | $97.80 | $118.90 | 100% |
| DUK - Duke Energy Corp | $82.75 | $72.12 | $91.09 | 59% |
| DWDP - DowDuPont Inc | $57.49 | $57.49 | $77.02 | 0% |
| EMR - Emerson Electric Co | $72.27 | $59.02 | $78.52 | 71% |
| EXC - Exelon Corporation | $44.13 | $35.98 | $44.62 | 95% |
| F - Ford Motor Co | $ 8.50 | $ 8.50 | $13.23 | 0% |
| FB - Facebook Inc | $154.05 | $151.38 | $217.50 | 5% |
| FDX - Fedex Corp | $219.80 | $214.45 | $274.32 | 10% |
| FOX - Twenty-First Century Fox Incorporated | $45.53 | $24.43 | $49.34 | 89% |
| FOXA - Twenty-First Century Fox Incorporated | $45.84 | $24.97 | $49.79 | 88% |
| GD - General Dynamics Corp | $190.26 | $185.89 | $229.95 | 11% |
| GE - General Electric Co | $12.56 | $11.27 | $23.83 | 14% |
| GILD - Gilead Sciences Inc | $73.27 | $64.88 | $88.80 | 39% |
| GM - General Motors Company | $31.20 | $31.08 | $46.48 | 1% |
| GOOG - Alphabet Inc | $1096.46 | $968.45 | $1268.33 | 46% |
| GOOGL - Alphabet Inc Class A | $1105.18 | $985.54 | $1285.50 | 43% |
| GS - Goldman Sachs Group Inc | $226.96 | $212.97 | $273.38 | 25% |
| HAL - Halliburton Co | $37.54 | $36.69 | $56.83 | 5% |
| HD - Home Depot Inc | $179.85 | $162.71 | $213.85 | 37% |
| HON - Honeywell International | $153.47 | $142.43 | $167.34 | 46% |
| IBM - International Business Machines Corporation | $129.10 | $129.10 | $169.12 | 0% |
| INTC - Intel Corp | $44.00 | $40.43 | $57.08 | 25% |
| JNJ - Johnson & Johnson | $139.05 | $119.40 | $148.14 | 71% |
| JPM - JPMorgan Chase and Co | $107.91 | $97.27 | $118.77 | 52% |
| KHC - Kraft Heinz Company | $57.56 | $53.82 | $81.92 | 16% |
| KMI - Kinder Morgan Inc | $17.98 | $14.81 | $19.63 | 69% |
| KO - Coca-Cola Co | $46.33 | $41.55 | $48.53 | 70% |
| LLY - Eli Lilly & Company | $111.92 | $74.21 | $115.46 | 93% |
| LMT - Lockheed Martin Corp | $328.14 | $294.78 | $361.00 | 53% |
| LOW - Lowes Companies Inc | $99.59 | $76.65 | $116.84 | 62% |
| MA - Mastercard Incorporated | $203.06 | $143.43 | $223.77 | 78% |
| MCD - McDonalds Corp | $167.49 | $148.27 | $178.36 | 66% |
| MDLZ - Mondelez International Inc | $41.80 | $37.57 | $45.87 | 53% |
| MDT - Medtronic PLC | $93.94 | $76.55 | $99.49 | 78% |
| MET - Metlife Inc | $43.84 | $43.40 | $55.73 | 4% |
| MMM - 3M Company | $199.85 | $194.39 | $258.63 | 10% |
| MO - Altria Group Inc | $61.95 | $54.52 | $73.90 | 42% |
| MRK - Merck & Co | $72.35 | $53.27 | $72.35 | 100% |
| MS - Morgan Stanley | $46.42 | $43.43 | $58.91 | 22% |
| MSFT - Microsoft Corp | $108.66 | $78.63 | $115.61 | 84% |
| NEE - NextEra Energy | $173.46 | $145.29 | $175.17 | 95% |
| NFLX - Netflix Inc | $332.67 | $184.04 | $418.97 | 72% |
| NKE - Nike Inc Cl B | $74.21 | $53.06 | $85.55 | 70% |
| NVDA - NVIDIA Corporation | $229.17 | $186.18 | $289.36 | 47% |
| ORCL - Oracle Corp | $47.59 | $42.82 | $52.97 | 50% |
| OXY - Occidental Petro Cp | $72.18 | $62.96 | $86.48 | 43% |
| PEP - Pepsico Inc | $110.29 | $96.16 | $121.76 | 58% |
| PFE - Pfizer Inc | $44.50 | $33.63 | $45.47 | 93% |
| PG - Procter & Gamble Co | $87.30 | $70.94 | $92.48 | 78% |
| PM - Philip Morris International | $88.83 | $76.85 | $110.60 | 40% |
| PYPL - PayPal Holdings Inc | $84.78 | $69.80 | $93.07 | 68% |
| QCOM - Qualcomm Inc | $65.36 | $49.75 | $75.09 | 66% |
| RTN - Raytheon Co | $191.01 | $179.58 | $228.13 | 26% |
| SBUX - Starbucks Corporation | $58.66 | $48.54 | $61.69 | 79% |
| SLB - Schlumberger Ltd | $58.47 | $58.43 | $79.79 | 0% |
| SO - Southern Company | $45.07 | $42.66 | $53.25 | 25% |
| SPG - Simon Property Group | $174.77 | $146.74 | $185.23 | 75% |
| T - AT&T Inc | $32.87 | $30.25 | $39.18 | 32% |
| TGT - Target Corporation | $82.02 | $54.16 | $89.26 | 83% |
| TXN - Texas Instruments Inc | $98.26 | $95.18 | $119.89 | 14% |
| UNH - UnitedHealth Group Inc. | $265.30 | $207.01 | $272.57 | 90% |
| UNP - Union Pacific Corp | $148.70 | $110.27 | $164.99 | 74% |
| UPS - United Parcel Service Inc | $116.49 | $101.66 | $134.09 | 49% |
| USB - US Bancorp | $52.50 | $48.86 | $58.11 | 41% |
| UTX - United Technologies Corp | $128.68 | $116.38 | $142.08 | 50% |
| V - Visa Inc | $140.08 | $107.43 | $150.79 | 78% |
| VZ - Verizon Communications | $54.90 | $44.11 | $55.02 | 99% |
| WBA - Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. | $77.35 | $59.70 | $80.27 | 87% |
| WFC - Wells Fargo & Company | $52.89 | $50.39 | $65.93 | 18% |
| WMT - Walmart Inc | $97.15 | $82.40 | $109.55 | 58% |
Notes:
Stocks are deemed to be near their 52-week high (low) if they are within 3 percent of the high (low) or they achieved a new high (low) within the 5 most recent market days.Price relative to 52-week range is calculated as [log(price)-log(low price)]/[log(high price)-log(low price)]*100%. Thus a stock with a current price of $4 with a 52-week high of $8 and a 52-week low of $2 will have price relative to range of 50%.
See George, Thomas J. and Chuan-Yang Hwang (2004). "The 52-Week High and Momentum Investing." The Journal of Finance. Volume LIX. Number 5. 2145-2176.