52-week high screener

Find stocks making new 52-week highs, and the names coiled just below the high, ranked next to relative strength and momentum so you can tell real leadership apart from a one-day pop.

What it shows

• Stocks at a new 52-week high. Names that closed at their highest price in a year, the classic sign a stock has no overhead supply left to work through.
• Names near the high. Every stock carries its percent distance from the 52-week high, so you can also pull up the ones sitting within a few percent, often the more actionable setups before a breakout.
• Ranked with strength, not in isolation. Sort or filter the new-high list by RS rating, momentum score, and sector strength, so a leader stands out from a low-quality name that briefly ticked to a high.
• The same query as the rest of the terminal. The 52-week high field lives beside golden crosses, coiling setups, and options data, so you can stack conditions in one screen.

How it works

Every night the pipeline recomputes each stock's percent distance from its 52-week high from end-of-day prices. A value of zero means the stock closed at a fresh high; a small negative value means it is sitting just under the high. Because it is one precomputed number per name, screening the whole universe for new highs, or for everything within, say, two percent of a high, is a single fast query rather than a scan.

How to use it

The strongest candidates tend to pair a fresh or nearby 52-week high with a high RS rating and a clean trend, ideally breaking out of a tight base rather than extended far above it. Use the list to build a watchlist of leaders, then wait for your own level. Read the concept in full in what is a 52-week high breakout.

FAQ

What is a 52-week high screener?

A filter that finds stocks trading at or near their highest price of the past year. MomentumSift stores each name's percent distance from its 52-week high, so you can pull up new highs today or names within a few percent and sort them by relative strength.

Should you buy a stock at a 52-week high?

New highs are a sign of strength, not an automatic buy. The screener builds a shortlist of strong names to research, paired with relative strength, the trend, and a level to watch. See the full explainer.

How is the 52-week high calculated?

It is the highest price a stock has traded over the trailing 52 weeks. MomentumSift computes each name's percent below its 52-week high nightly from end-of-day prices, so a value of zero means a new high.