ASX 200 stocks hitting fresh 52-week highs and lows – Week 34
A choppy market with thin breadth, where select stocks break out while broader sectors stay stuck near highs.
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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
Financials: 3 Highs, 0 Lows
Materials: 3 Highs, 1 Low
Technology: 2 Highs, 0 Lows
Industrials: 1 High, 0 Lows
Health Care: 1 High, 0 Lows
Discretionary: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Utilities: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Energy: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Staples: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Telecommunications: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Real Estate: 0 Highs, 2 Lows
What Does the Data Tell Us?
A lack of breadth: The S&P/ASX 200 traded lower in four of the last five sessions last week, so the tide certainly worked against stocks making fresh yearly highs. That said, the 52-week series has been incredibly thin on both sides over the past couple of months, reinforcing the theme of a choppy market that lacks clean leadership. Go back to the onset of the US-Iran war and the energy sector dominated the list, spanning oil and gas, refiners and utilities. When the S&P/ASX 200 Materials sector broke out of a five-year trading range in October 2025, well over a dozen names across gold, copper, iron ore, diversified, mining services and more made 52-week highs. Right now, though, we're in an awkward market where select stocks are breaking out while broader sectors and indices stay choppy or sit near highs. On the flip side, only three stocks recorded a fresh 52-week low last week. Two were earnings-related, the other was Fortescue, with iron ore prices slumping to five-month lows around US$95 a tonne. Meanwhile a lot of battered names across Healthcare, Discretionary and Tech have bottomed and lifted off their lows.
What to watch: The Materials sector is looking strong as copper prices keep making fresh all-time highs and gold stabilises above US$4,000. Software and tech stocks remain well below 52-week highs but staged a resurgence in recent days on the back of strong earnings from both ASX-listed names (BVS) and US names (Datadog, Atlassian etc.). The S&P/ASX 200 Energy sector is also holding up well, sitting around 6% shy of April highs. Energy is one of those tricky sectors where stocks refuse to underwrite geopolitically driven oil price spikes, but if oil simply holds around current levels, plenty of names will generate healthy free cash flow yields in the low teens.
ASX 200 stocks at 52-week highs
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Capricorn Metals | $15.82 | Materials | 1.5% | 63.4% | |
South32 | $4.76 | Materials | -4.0% | 62.5% | |
Megaport | $21.48 | Technology | 6.4% | 47.3% | |
Bluescope Steel | $33.69 | Materials | -4.4% | 46.2% | |
Neuren Pharmaceuticals | $23.45 | Health Care | 3.2% | 36.4% | |
AMP | $2.33 | Financials | -3.7% | 31.6% | |
Data#3 | $10.01 | Technology | 0.7% | 27.7% | |
Reece | $17.24 | Industrials | -0.4% | 19.2% | |
Washington H. Soul Pattinson | $46.53 | Financials | -0.5% | 9.9% | |
Medibank Private | $5.09 | Financials | -3.6% | -1.7% |
S&P/ASX 200 stocks and sectors that hit a 52-week high last week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 14 August 2026.
ASX 200 stocks at 52-week lows
S&P/ASX 200 stocks and sectors that hit a 52-week low last week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 14 August 2026.
