ASX 200 stocks hitting fresh 52-week highs and lows – Week 46
Defensives still dominate the highs list, but miners are quietly bouncing off their lows and a few turnaround names are creeping back in.
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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
Financials: 4 Highs, 0 Lows
Health Care: 3 Highs, 0 Lows
Industrials: 2 Highs, 3 Lows
Staples: 2 Highs, 0 Lows
Energy: 1 High, 2 Lows
Telecommunications: 1 High, 0 Lows
Materials: 0 Highs, 8 Lows
Technology: 0 Highs, 2 Lows
Discretionary: 0 Highs, 1 Low
Real Estate: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
Utilities: 0 Highs, 0 Lows
What Does the Data Tell Us?
Still playing defence. The highs list kept its defensive skew last week, led by a mix of healthcare, staples and insurers. Ramsay and CSL are still hovering around yearly highs, thanks to better-than-expected FY26 results in August and the broader rotation into defensives. Insurers are looking particularly strong, with QBE and IAG both tagging fresh highs, while takeover candidate Cleanaway continues to linger near the top of its range. The encouraging part is that a few turnaround names are creeping back in. Treasury Wine Estates keeps grinding higher, and Block jumped 15% to a 52-week high on the back of better-than-expected 2026 guidance.
Miners are bottoming. 16 names tagged a 52-week low in the past week, but the list is a bit deceptive. The eight miners on it actually rallied an average 10.5% for the week. The S&P/ASX 200 Materials Index fell 19.6% between 25 August and 23 October, just shy of bear market territory, and has since bounced 10.4% off its lows. That move has lifted a broad basket of copper, gold, lithium and uranium stocks, among others. It’s an encouraging start, but the sector isn’t out of the woods yet, and we’ll need to see more accumulation and strength from here.
Pockets of pain. Outside of miners, the damage is more stock-specific. Eagers Automotive tanked 19.2% as weaker discretionary names stay volatile, while Ventia tumbled 16.2% on Monday after a surprise second-half revenue downgrade and an expensive structural overhaul under newly appointed CEO Mark Ralston.
Tentatively optimistic. Overall, stocks making lows look like they’ve started to find a floor. That’s in line with the Small Ords (XSO) and Emerging Companies (XEC), which have both bounced around 7% from their 26 October lows, and a sizeable pullback in the Aussie 3-year yield, down 20 bps since late October.
ASX 200 stocks at 52-week highs
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ramsay Health Care | $55.49 | Health Care | -0.5% | 80.2% | |
Reece | $18.34 | Industrials | 1.3% | 63.9% | |
Woolworths Group | $42.47 | Staples | 7.6% | 48.3% | |
Challenger | $12.04 | Financials | -0.1% | 33.8% | |
Santos | $8.62 | Energy | -5.5% | 28.9% | |
QBE Insurance Group | $26.32 | Financials | 1.9% | 28.0% | |
Neuren Pharmaceuticals | $23.84 | Health Care | 14.9% | 27.9% | |
Block | $125.16 | Financials | 15.0% | 24.4% | |
Cleanaway Waste | $3.01 | Industrials | 0.3% | 17.1% | |
ASX | $66.03 | Financials | -0.1% | 12.9% | |
Insurance Australia Group | $8.94 | Financials | 2.2% | 12.3% | |
CSL | $200.77 | Health Care | -0.2% | 12.1% | |
Treasury Wine Estates | $6.36 | Staples | 1.8% | 7.4% | |
News Corp | $42.55 | Telecommunications | -6.3% | -7.4% |
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 Monday, 9 November 2026.
ASX 200 stocks at 52-week lows
Ticker | Company | Close | Sector | 1 Week | 1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eagers Automotive | $15.41 | Discretionary | -19.2% | -50.3% | |
Deep Yellow | $0.84 | Energy | 13.6% | -49.6% | |
NexGen Energy | $12.23 | Energy | 3.2% | -6.6% | |
Silex Systems | $3.33 | Industrials | -4.6% | -65.4% | |
Droneshield | $1.26 | Industrials | -4.9% | -61.6% | |
Ventia Services Group | $4.80 | Industrials | -17.7% | -16.4% | |
Vulcan Energy Resources | $1.15 | Materials | 5.1% | -79.2% | |
Champion Iron | $2.10 | Materials | 11.4% | -60.5% | |
Liontown | $0.68 | Materials | 11.6% | -48.7% | |
Catalyst Metals | $4.44 | Materials | 22.3% | -39.2% | |
Fortescue | $15.28 | Materials | 7.1% | -23.5% | |
Elevra Lithium | $3.58 | Materials | 13.7% | -22.2% | |
Nickel Industries | $0.61 | Materials | 2.5% | -17.0% | |
PLS Group | $2.89 | Materials | 10.7% | -15.7% | |
Weebit Nano | $2.27 | Technology | -3.8% | -45.0% | |
Elsight | $1.45 | Technology | -11.6% | -7.9% |
S&P/ASX 200 stocks and sectors that hit a 52-week high in the past week, sorted by sectors and one-year returns. Data as at Monday, 9 November 2026.
