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Which stocks keep losing?

A stock that trails the market week after week is telling you something about how investors see the business, and a long slide is rarely reversed by a single good week. Knowing which names are stuck helps avoid catching a falling knife.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

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36 steady losers

36 stocks finished in the bottom half of the market in at least 32 of the last 52 weeks while trailing the S&P 500 over the year. 14 of them also have shrinking businesses. Industrials has the most (7).

14 with shrinking businessesMost in IndustrialsS&P 500 +15.7% over a year

The 60 most persistent losers

Ranked by weeks in the bottom half, then by the year’s loss against the S&P 500. Business shows whether sales, margins and cash flow are growing. Select a row for its chart. Select a column to sort.

StockPersistencevs S&P, 1YBusinessSectorWeekly rank, past year

How to read this page

How it’s measured. S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks. Each week, every stock is ranked by how much it beat the S&P 500; bottom half means it trailed most stocks that week.

Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep.

Persistence ranks every stock by how many of the last 52 weeks it spent in the bottom half of the market, from 0 to 100.

In our research, buying stocks because they have fallen has not paid on its own, even when the business looked sound. A long slide describes the past year; it is not a forecast.

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