Nasdaq-100 stocks near their 52-week high
A stock within a few percent of its 52-week high has little overhead supply, which is why leaders tend to trade near their highs. This list takes the Nasdaq-100 members within 5% of their high that are also above the 50-day average, so a stock fading from its peak drops off.
18 of 101 Nasdaq-100 stocks pass · prices as of Oct 30, 2026 close · index members as of Oct 30, 2026
The exact criteria
Every filter applied to build the list below, in order, to US stocks priced at $5 or more and trading at least $1 million a day on average. Nothing else is applied.
Index membership is our own record, checked against public sources after each close. The date at the top is the last day that check passed.
- 1.A member of the Nasdaq-100101 pass
- 2.Within 5% of the 52-week high586 pass
- 3.Price is above the 50-day moving average1,515 pass
Each count is that rule applied on its own to the same set of stocks, so you can see which one is doing the work. The list below is the names that pass all of them.
| VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | Health Care | $558.88 | +3.5% | 0.0% | Stage 2 |
| KDP Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. | Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. | Consumer Staples | $35.84 | +1.5% | 0.0% | Stage 2 |
| GILD Gilead Sciences, Inc. | Gilead Sciences, Inc. | Health Care | $170.68 | +3.1% | 0.0% | Stage 2 |
| ROP Roper Technologies, Inc. | Roper Technologies, Inc. | Information Technology | $466.60 | +3.8% | 0.0% | Stage 3 |
| REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Health Care | $927.89 | +13.3% | 0.0% | Stage 2 |
| FANG Diamondback Energy, Inc. | Diamondback Energy, Inc. | Energy | $212.08 | +2.7% | 0.0% | Stage 3 |
| AMGN Amgen Inc. | Amgen Inc. | Health Care | $466.01 | +1.1% | 0.0% | Stage 2 |
| MDLZ Mondelez International, Inc. Class A | Mondelez International, Inc. Class A | Consumer Staples | $64.94 | +3.9% | -0.4% | Stage 2 |
| CCEP Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc | Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc | Consumer Staples | $113.22 | +2.1% | -0.9% | Stage 3 |
| MAR Marriott International Class A | Marriott International Class A | Consumer Discretionary | $399.30 | -0.1% | -1.2% | Stage 2Early entry |
| AAPL Apple Inc. | Apple Inc. | Information Technology | $344.63 | -1.2% | -1.2% | Stage 2 |
| FAST Fastenal Company | Fastenal Company | Industrials | $51.91 | -1.2% | -1.6% | Stage 2 |
| CSX CSX Corporation | CSX Corporation | Industrials | $51.99 | -0.5% | -2.1% | Stage 3 |
| XEL Xcel Energy Inc. | Xcel Energy Inc. | Utilities | $79.82 | +1.0% | -2.7% | Stage 4 |
| CTAS Cintas Corporation | Cintas Corporation | Industrials | $219.82 | +0.8% | -2.7% | Stage 2 |
| MSFT Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Corporation | Information Technology | $521.91 | -1.6% | -4.0% | Stage 2 |
| SBUX Starbucks Corporation | Starbucks Corporation | Consumer Discretionary | $103.67 | -1.7% | -4.4% | Stage 3 |
| ADP Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | Information Technology | $293.84 | +2.7% | -4.6% | Stage 2 |
Where our read differs
Of the 18 names above, 1 are flagged Early entry by our own model: still early enough in their move that the trade has room, rather than names that have already run. A screen tells you a stock qualifies; it does not tell you whether you are late. That second question is the one we built the engine to answer.
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Why look at stocks near their 52-week high?
A stock near its high has little overhead supply, since few holders are waiting to sell at break-even. Leaders tend to spend much of an advance close to their highs, so this list is a short way to see which Nasdaq-100 names are leading now.
Why also require the 50-day moving average?
A stock can sit within 5% of its high while it rolls over. Asking for price above the 50-day average drops names that are fading from a recent peak.
How current is the Nasdaq-100 membership on this page?
We check the index's members after every close against public sources, and the date beside the count is the last day that check passed. Nasdaq reconstitutes the index each December and replaces members during the year. A change shows here once it has taken effect and our next check confirms it.
End-of-day data for common stocks and ADRs on the NYSE, Nasdaq and NYSE American, computed after each US close and dated to the trading session.
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