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Stocks making 52-week highs and lows this week: Insurance, Industrials and Tech

Thu 27 Jul 23, 9:48am (AEST)
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Key Points

  • Stocks from strong trending sectors including insurance and tech continued to hit fresh 52-week highs
  • The ASX 200 is up almost 6% from July lows, making it rather difficult to hit a 52-week low
  • Disappointing quarterly updates from Core Lithium, Ansell and Syrah Resources has dragged the stocks to fresh yearly lows

Welcome back to the 52-week Series – A recap of ASX 200 stocks that have hit 52-week highs and lows in the past week.


# Highs and lows by sector 

  • Materials – 3 highs, 4 lows

  • Discretionary – 2 highs, 0 low

  • Staples – 0 high, 0 lows 

  • Financials – 4 high, 0 low

  • Real Estate – 0 high, 0 lows

  • Technology – 4 highs, 0 lows 

  • Utilities – 2 highs, 0 lows

  • Energy – 1 highs, 0 low

  • Healthcare – 0 highs, 1 low

  • Industrials – 2 high, 1 low

Data based on Tuesday, 25 July close. Top 200 by market cap only.


Stocks making 52-week highs

Several stocks from strong trending sectors including Insurance, Industrials (building materials and construction) and Technology.

Earlier this week, China's top leaders pledged to step up policy support for the economy, which inspired a broad-based rally for the resource sector. Fortescue has poked its head to a fresh 52-week high.


Ticker

Company Name

Close Price 

Sector

Mkt Cap 

1 Month

1 Year

FLT

Flight Centre Travel

$    22.39

Discretionary

$4,828.2m

20.6%

27.1%

NWS

News Corporation

$    29.05

Discretionary

$16,809.7m

2.4%

18.7%

WOR

Worley 

$    17.06

Energy

$8,816.3m

9.4%

23.4%

NWL

Netwealth 

$    14.76

Financials

$3,548.6m

9.5%

17.9%

IAG

Insurance Australia Group 

$      5.85

Financials

$14,277.2m

5.2%

31.2%

SUN

Suncorp Group 

$    13.81

Financials

$17,693.6m

3.2%

22.2%

QBE

QBE Insurance 

$    15.64

Financials

$23,604.8m

2.8%

35.7%

VNT

Ventia Services 

$      2.93

Industrials

$2,489.5m

0.3%

9.3%

SVW

Seven Group 

$    26.00

Industrials

$9,335.8m

6.4%

53.4%

CSR

CSR 

$      5.60

Materials

$2,587.4m

9.8%

28.7%

JHX

James Hardie 

$    41.45

Materials

$17,816.2m

6.7%

17.3%

FMG

Fortescue Metals

$    23.20

Materials

$69,399.9m

8.7%

27.1%

MP1

Megaport

$      9.30

Technology

$1,566.2m

34.8%

5.8%

XRO

Xero 

$  119.30

Technology

$18,499.4m

5.4%

32.2%

REA

REA Group 

$  150.69

Technology

$19,244.2m

12.7%

24.3%

WTC

Wisetech Global 

$    82.26

Technology

$26,565.1m

6.4%

70.3%

AGL

AGL Energy 

$    12.12

Utilities

$8,073.0m

10.4%

41.8%

ORG

Origin Energy 

$      8.55

Utilities

$14,884.5m

1.4%

51.1%


Stocks making 52-week lows

The ASX 200 is up almost 6% from its 10 July low. Most of the stocks on this list hit 52-week lows following disappointing announcements (mostly quarterly updates).


Ticker

Company Name

Close Price 

Sector

Market Cap

1 Month

1 Year

LKE

Lake Resources 

$      0.24

Materials

$362.7m

-20.3%

-65.9%

LNK

Link Administration 

$      1.52

Industrials

$795.1m

-19.6%

-65.5%

SYR

Syrah Resources 

$      0.71

Materials

$496.8m

-10.1%

-44.5%

CXO

Core Lithium

$      0.70

Materials

$1,616.9m

-23.9%

-33.0%

SYA

Sayona Mining 

$      0.16

Materials

$1,735.7m

-8.6%

-1879%

ANN

Ansell

$    23.64

Healthcare

$3,017.0m

-8.2%

-7.7%


 

Written By

Kerry Sun

Content Strategist

Kerry holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Monash University. He is an avid swing trader, focused on technical set ups and breakouts. Outside of writing and trading, Kerry is a big UFC fan, loves poker and training Muay Thai. Connect via LinkedIn or email.

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