ASX 200 stocks hitting fresh 52-week highs and lows – Week 3
Materials stocks dominate 52-week highs again as gold, copper and iron ore defy gravity. Here's what's driving the rally.
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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: 26 Highs, 0 Lows
Industrials: 4 Highs, 0 Lows
Technology: 2 Highs, 1 Low
Energy: 2 Highs, 1 Low
Health Care: 1 High, 1 Low
Discretionary: 0 Highs, 2 Lows
Financials: 0 Highs, 1 Low
Telecommunications: 0 Highs, 1 Low
Utilities: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Staples: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Real Estate: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
What Does the Data Tell Us?
Not to sound like a broken record, but the Materials sector continues to churn out a high volume of stocks making fresh yearly highs. It's been the dominant sector in this 52-week series and absolutely deserves the attention, as several resource-related indices, commodity prices and key stocks break out of multi-year bases.
Last week recorded 26 S&P/ASX 200 Materials stocks making 52-week highs. The list is nearly identical this week, with a broad spectrum of names across lithium, gold, copper, aluminium, steel, nickel and iron ore continuing to climb.
Materials remains the sector to watch in 2026, driven by a broad range of factors including:
Gold is back at all-time highs of US$2,555/oz, with top money managers betting on further gains. The view is that the forces that propelled bullion to a record remain in place, according to Bloomberg.
Copper is trading within an arms reach of all-time highs, with 2026 forecast to mark the most severe deficit in 22 years at roughly 590,000 tonnes, according to Morgan Stanley. Last month, I wrote a piece highlighting "Why 2026 could be copper's breakout year."
Iron ore continues to defy analyst expectations of US$90 a tonne, hovering around US$105. It's hard to pinpoint why prices have remained so resilient. Iron ore exports from Brazil, the world's second-largest exporter after Australia, hit an all-time high of 416.4 million tonnes in 2025, up 7.1% from the previous year, according to preliminary statistics from Comex Stat.
Nickel prices have bounced strongly after a prolonged two to three year bear market, while lithium is also rebounding after a similar downturn.
ASX 200 Materials at 52-Week Highs
Ticker | Company | Close | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Liontown | $2.05 | 26.54% | 276.15% | |
Resolute Mining | $1.32 | 6.88% | 234.18% | |
Regis Resources | $7.55 | -1.05% | 169.64% | |
Vault Minerals | $5.62 | 2.55% | 154.30% | |
Newmont Corporation | $157.40 | 4.16% | 146.79% | |
Perseus Mining | $5.71 | 1.24% | 114.66% | |
PLS Group | $4.65 | 7.89% | 111.36% | |
West African Resources | $3.31 | 7.82% | 106.23% | |
Ora Banda Mining | $1.52 | -1.30% | 104.03% | |
Sandfire Resources | $18.65 | 3.61% | 96.94% | |
Ramelius Resources | $4.13 | -2.36% | 89.45% | |
Emerald Resources | $6.30 | -0.94% | 86.94% | |
IGO | $8.65 | 5.36% | 74.04% | |
Mineral Resources | $57.09 | 2.98% | 62.74% | |
Alcoa Corporation | $91.22 | 13.51% | 58.09% | |
Greatland Resources | $11.52 | 9.09% | 57.81% | |
Bluescope Steel | $30.00 | 24.28% | 57.23% | |
Bellevue Gold | $1.66 | -2.35% | 55.87% | |
Orica | $26.03 | 6.77% | 53.93% | |
Capstone Copper Corp | $14.51 | 0.00% | 46.86% | |
Sims | $18.74 | 2.85% | 43.16% | |
BHP Group | $47.72 | 4.28% | 20.54% | |
Rio Tinto | $143.06 | -3.13% | 20.43% | |
Champion Iron | $6.47 | 5.55% | 14.72% | |
Nickel Industries | $0.92 | 1.67% | 14.38% | |
South32 | $3.85 | 8.45% | 14.24% |
S&P/ASX 200 Materials constituents that hit 52-week highs in the past week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 9 January 2026.
Other Stocks at 52-Week Highs
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nexgen Energy | $15.89 | Energy | 11.12% | 45.51% | |
Paladin Energy | $10.61 | Energy | 4.74% | 29.71% | |
Mesoblast | $3.07 | Health Care | 10.83% | 9.25% | |
Monadelphous Group | $27.15 | Industrials | 2.34% | 89.46% | |
Ventia Services Group | $6.08 | Industrials | 1.16% | 68.89% | |
ALS | $22.73 | Industrials | 3.04% | 45.99% | |
Fletcher Building | $3.22 | Industrials | 2.22% | 27.78% | |
Codan | $36.89 | Technology | 27.12% | 137.69% | |
Data#3 | $9.58 | Technology | 5.97% | 55.77% |
S&P/ASX 200 stocks and sectors that hit 52-week highs in the past week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 9 January 2026.
ASX 200 Stocks at 52-Week Lows
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Telix Pharmaceuticals | $11.24 | Health Care | -1.06% | -53.21% | |
Premier Investments | $13.47 | Discretionary | -2.60% | -51.51% | |
Xero | $107.46 | Technology | -4.27% | -35.04% | |
Beach Energy | $1.10 | Energy | -5.98% | -25.68% | |
REA Group | $186.49 | Telecommunications | 0.93% | -20.95% | |
Aristocrat Leisure | $57.22 | Discretionary | 0.00% | -19.11% | |
ASX | $52.39 | Financials | 1.91% | -18.18% |
S&P/ASX 200 stocks and sectors that hit 52-week lows in the past week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 9 January 2026.
