The highest stock price for the company over the trailing 52 weeks.
Origin
Price quotes for NYSE and AMEX securities are supplied by ComStock, a division of Interactive Data Corporation. This information is updated daily.
Benefit
Viewed alongside the current price and the 52 Week Low, the 52 Week High can give some indication of whether a stock is trading at the high or low end of its trading range over the past year.
For the Pros
To find out how close a stock’s current price is to its 52-week low, use the following formula:
(Price Current – Price 52-week low) / (Price 52-week High –Price 52-week low)
The lower the resulting number, the closer the stock is to its 52-week low.