ASX 200 stocks hitting fresh 52-week highs and lows – Week 18
Healthcare takes a beating as Cochlear's 40% plunge drags peers lower, while February's earnings season still haunts discretionary names.
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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
Materials: 4 Highs, 0 Lows
Energy: 2 Highs, 0 Lows
Financials: 1 High, 2 Lows
Discretionary: 1 High, 5 Lows
Staples: 1 High, 0 Lows
Industrials: 0 Highs, 3 Lows
Health Care: 0 Highs, 5 Lows
Utilities: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Technology: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Real Estate: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Telecommunications: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
What Does the Data Tell Us?
Healthcare takes a leg down: A brutal week for healthcare stocks, headlined by Cochlear's 40.7% single-day selloff on Wednesday after it cut FY26 underlying net profit guidance by roughly 30% (from $435-460m to $290-330m), citing deteriorating trading conditions in the US and Europe. What's interesting is that peers like CSL and ResMed also tumbled on the day, down 5.7% and 2.4% respectively, despite no company-specific news, suggesting the read-through went sector-wide. Healthcare recorded five 52-week lows for the week, and the S&P/ASX 200 Healthcare Index is now down 23% year-to-date, sitting at its lowest level since April 2018.
Discretionary softness: Four of the five discretionary names that hit yearly lows last week share a common catalyst. All sold off sharply on weaker-than-expected 1H26 results back in February:
Temple & Webster down 32.6% on 12-Feb
ARB down 13.0% on 24-Feb
Nick Scali down 22.0% on 13-Feb
Harvey Norman down 9.0% on 27-Feb
Super Retail up 8.3% on 26-Feb
Zooming out: A relatively low volume of 52-week highs and lows, as the ASX 200 still 5% above the recent 23 March low and within 5% of its all-time highs.
ASX 200 stocks at 52-week highs
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liontown | $2.24 | Materials | 1.8% | 293.0% | |
PLS Group | $5.77 | Materials | -4.5% | 274.7% | |
Predictive Discovery | $0.96 | Materials | 2.7% | 158.1% | |
Paladin Energy | $12.61 | Energy | -13.3% | 105.7% | |
Tabcorp | $1.11 | Discretionary | 10.5% | 94.7% | |
Karoon Energy | $2.24 | Energy | 4.7% | 56.6% | |
Rio Tinto | $171.59 | Materials | -1.2% | 47.2% | |
Woolworths Group | $37.89 | Staples | 3.0% | 19.8% | |
Macquarie Group | $232.28 | Financials | -3.2% | 19.5% |
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, 24 April 2026.
ASX 200 stocks at 52-week lows
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Temple & Webster Group | $5.86 | Discretionary | -12.0% | -67.2% | |
ARB Corporation | $19.54 | Discretionary | -5.6% | -38.3% | |
Nick Scali | $14.93 | Discretionary | -4.5% | -15.2% | |
Harvey Norman | $4.53 | Discretionary | -0.9% | -13.2% | |
Super Retail Group | $12.19 | Discretionary | -2.4% | -7.9% | |
Judo Capital | $1.40 | Financials | -7.0% | -20.2% | |
Generation Development Group | $3.61 | Financials | -18.3% | -13.6% | |
Cochlear | $97.35 | Health Care | -42.2% | -64.1% | |
CSL | $130.00 | Health Care | -5.2% | -47.0% | |
Resmed Inc | $30.89 | Health Care | -2.0% | -16.0% | |
Ansell | $26.76 | Health Care | -1.4% | -10.8% | |
Fisher & Paykel | $29.42 | Health Care | -5.8% | -8.5% | |
Fletcher Building | $2.30 | Industrials | -2.5% | -21.0% | |
Atlas Arteria | $4.33 | Industrials | 1.4% | -15.6% | |
Austal | $4.62 | Industrials | -0.2% | -10.1% |
S&P/ASX 200 stocks and sectors that hit a 52-week low in the past week, sorted by sector and one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 24 April 2026.
