ASX 200 stocks hitting fresh 52-week highs and lows – Week 39
The ASX 200 is barely up for the year, but 13% of the index just hit 52-week lows and real estate is falling vertically.
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Welcome back to the 52-Week Series, where we recap the S&P/ASX 200 stocks that hit fresh yearly highs and lows last 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: 3 Highs, 5 Lows
Energy: 3 Highs, 0 Lows
Industrials: 1 High, 3 Lows
Financials: 1 High, 2 Lows
Health Care: 1 High, 1 Low
Real Estate: 0 Highs, 7 Lows
Discretionary: 0 Highs, 4 Lows
Telecommunications: 0 Highs, 4 Lows
Utilities: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Technology: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Staples: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
What Does the Data Tell Us?
Breadth continues to deteriorate: The ASX 200 is down 5.8% since its 5 August record high and sits fractionally higher year-to-date. The headline returns don't look all that bad, but 26 constituents, or 13% of the index, logged a 52-week low last week. The weakness is concentrated in rate-sensitive pockets like REITs, retailers and tech, though iron ore, funds management and industrials are starting to show the same. What's interesting is that these rate-sensitive sectors have moved vertically lower in recent weeks, with the slow-moving ASX 200 real estate sector down 14% since 5 August to its lowest since January 2024. It's not a good look for the broader market, showing more weakness under the hood as bond yields keep trading at stressful levels. As for the highs, reporting season winners like AMP and Ramsay Health Care continue to defy all logic and trend higher, while energy names grind up on stubbornly high energy prices and even stronger prices for refined products like diesel and jet fuel.
ASX 200 stocks at 52-week highs
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sunrise Energy Metals | $19.54 | Materials | -11.7% | 483.3% | |
Ramsay Health Care | $55.39 | Health Care | 3.4% | 67.0% | |
Alkane Resources | $1.97 | Materials | 5.9% | 64.9% | |
New Hope Corporation | $6.38 | Energy | 0.8% | 61.9% | |
Viva Energy Group | $3.12 | Energy | 2.6% | 58.4% | |
AMP | $2.52 | Financials | 2.4% | 50.0% | |
Dyno Nobel | $4.10 | Materials | 5.4% | 35.3% | |
Santos | $8.51 | Energy | -0.9% | 26.3% | |
Reliance Worldwide | $4.59 | Industrials | 7.2% | 9.8% |
S&P/ASX 200 stocks and sectors that hit a 52-week high last week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 18 September 2026.
ASX 200 Real estate stocks at 52-week lows
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arena REIT | $2.13 | Real Estate | -3.6% | -46.6% | |
Charter Hall Group | $18.32 | Real Estate | 1.1% | -20.4% | |
Centuria Industrial REIT | $2.82 | Real Estate | -0.4% | -19.7% | |
Waypoint REIT | $2.23 | Real Estate | 0.0% | -19.5% | |
HomeCo Daily Needs REIT | $1.11 | Real Estate | 1.8% | -19.0% | |
GPT Group | $4.46 | Real Estate | 1.6% | -16.3% | |
BWP Group | $3.59 | Real Estate | 1.4% | -3.4% |
S&P/ASX 200 Real Estate constituents hat hit a 52-week low last week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 18 September 2026.
ASX 200 Discretionary stocks at 52-week lows
S&P/ASX 200 Discretionary constituents hat hit a 52-week low last week, sorted by one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 18 September 2026.
Other ASX 200 stocks and sectors at 52-week lows
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Generation Development Group | $2.98 | Financials | -5.1% | -57.6% | |
Netwealth Group | $18.86 | Financials | -1.0% | -38.3% | |
Sigma Healthcare | $2.55 | Health Care | -3.0% | -16.4% | |
Droneshield | $1.72 | Industrials | 3.6% | -51.4% | |
SGH | $36.91 | Industrials | -2.1% | -27.8% | |
Transurban Group | $13.26 | Industrials | -3.4% | -5.9% | |
Weebit Nano | $3.34 | Information Technology | 1.5% | 2.5% | |
Iperionx | $3.00 | Materials | 13.6% | -53.5% | |
Vulcan Energy Resources | $2.22 | Materials | -6.3% | -42.3% | |
Champion Iron | $3.25 | Materials | -0.6% | -30.7% | |
Fortescue | $16.73 | Materials | 0.4% | -12.4% | |
Imdex | $3.33 | Materials | -1.5% | -1.8% | |
Seek | $11.66 | Telecommunications | -5.9% | -60.0% | |
Nine Entertainment | $0.77 | Telecommunications | -0.7% | -34.6% | |
Aussie Broadband | $4.24 | Telecommunications | 6.0% | -25.2% | |
Chorus | $6.82 | Telecommunications | -4.6% | -18.5% |
All other S&P/ASX 200 stocks and sectors that hit a 52-week low last week, sorted by sector and one-year returns. Data as at Friday, 18 September 2026.
