ASX 200 stocks hitting fresh 52-week highs and lows – Week 13
A broad list of energy stocks are making fresh yearly highs, while rate sensitive stocks like retailers and real estate stocks tumble.
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Welcome back to the 52-Week Series, where we recap the S&P/ASX 200 stocks that have hit fresh yearly highs and lows over the past week. Tracking this data point helps identify emerging trends across various stocks and sectors.
When clusters of stocks within a sector reach new highs or lows, it often points to meaningful underlying drivers such as shifting commodity prices, changing demand patterns (such as AI, pivots into defensive sectors, consumer weakness etc), or companies beating/missing earnings expectations.
52-Week highs and lows by sector
Energy: 6 Highs, 0 Lows
Utilities: 1 High, 0 Lows
Telecommunications: 1 High, 3 Lows
Real Estate: 0 Highs, 6 Lows
Discretionary: 0 Highs, 6 Lows
Industrials: 0 Highs, 5 Lows
Health Care: 0 Highs, 5 Lows
Financials: 0 Highs, 4 Lows
Technology: 0 Highs, 2 Lows
Staples: 0 Highs, 2 Lows
Materials: 0 Highs, 1 Low
What Does the Data Tell Us?
Energy makes a breakthrough: After a quiet few weeks for the 52-week high/low series, Energy has broken out sharply while former leaders like Materials and Industrials have pulled back hard. The S&P/ASX 200 Energy Index is up 18.7% since the Iran conflict began on 27 February, driving a broad rally across oil (Woodside), LNG (Santos), coal (Yancoal and New Hope) and refineries (Ampol and Viva).
REITs enter bear market territory: The S&P/ASX 200 Real Estate Index is down 23% from its 27 October 2025 peak, facing its toughest macro backdrop since 2022. UBS draws parallels to that year, when the sector fell roughly 30% peak-to-trough amid the Ukraine energy crisis and 300 basis points of RBA rate hikes. The current energy shock, tied to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, is compounding the inflationary pressures that already pushed the RBA to hike in February 2026.
Breadth is starting to deteriorate: Weakness is broadening. Reporting season laggards including CSL, Cochlear, Treasury Wine and Megaport are hitting fresh lows, as are richly valued/tech names like Siteminder, Seek and Car Group, and economically sensitive stocks such as Pinnacle (market flows) and Reliance Worldwide (building and construction). The number of ASX 200 stocks making new 52-week lows ticked up week-on-week to 34, or 17% of the index.
ASX 200 stocks at 52-week highs
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yancoal Australia | $8.31 | Energy | 3.1% | 63.3% | |
Woodside Energy Group | $34.04 | Energy | 9.7% | 47.6% | |
New Hope | $5.71 | Energy | 6.7% | 45.3% | |
Ampol | $33.11 | Energy | 7.3% | 37.5% | |
Viva Energy Group | $2.36 | Energy | 10.3% | 31.8% | |
Santos | $7.98 | Energy | 6.0% | 23.5% | |
Telstra Group | $5.29 | Telecommunications | 1.9% | 27.5% | |
APA Group | $9.47 | Utilities | 3.2% | 20.0% |
S&P/ASX 200 stocks and sectors that hit a 52-week high in the past week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 20 March 2026.
ASX 200 Discretionary stocks at 52-week lows
S&P/ASX 200 Discretionary constituents that hit a 52-week low in the past week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 20 March 2026.
ASX 200 Real Estate stocks at 52-week lows
S&P/ASX 200 Real Estate constituents that hit a 52-week low in the past week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 20 March 2026.
Other ASX 200 stocks at 52-week lows
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pinnacle Investment Management Group | $12.76 | Financials | -7.1% | -29.8% | |
ASX | $48.94 | Financials | -0.7% | -25.2% | |
AUB Group | $22.58 | Financials | -3.0% | -23.8% | |
Generation Development Group | $3.80 | Financials | -1.0% | -23.5% | |
CSL | $138.50 | Health Care | -1.8% | -45.3% | |
Cochlear | $164.62 | Health Care | -5.6% | -38.1% | |
Sonic Healthcare | $20.07 | Health Care | -5.3% | -21.8% | |
Ansell | $28.08 | Health Care | -5.6% | -16.8% | |
Sigma Healthcare | $2.78 | Health Care | 5.3% | -0.7% | |
Reliance Worldwide Corporation | $2.97 | Industrials | 1.7% | -35.2% | |
Computershare | $27.67 | Industrials | -4.1% | -30.2% | |
SGH | $39.51 | Industrials | -6.0% | -19.9% | |
Cleanaway Waste Management | $2.31 | Industrials | -1.7% | -12.2% | |
Auckland International Airport | $6.71 | Industrials | -2.9% | -6.7% | |
Amcor PLC | $54.13 | Materials | -5.0% | -29.0% | |
Treasury Wine Estates | $3.64 | Staples | -7.6% | -63.1% | |
Metcash | $2.87 | Staples | -3.4% | -8.3% | |
Siteminder | $2.85 | Technology | -10.7% | -39.2% | |
Megaport | $7.44 | Technology | -2.9% | -29.1% | |
Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings | $0.88 | Telecommunications | 2.3% | -45.2% | |
Seek | $14.44 | Telecommunications | -4.2% | -37.9% | |
Car Group | $23.26 | Telecommunications | -5.6% | -30.2% |
All other S&P/ASX 200 stocks and sectors that hit a 52-week low in the past week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 20 March 2026.
