No-Pullback Leaders: Stocks Sitting at 52-Week Highs

While QQQ sits below its high and breadth is thin, a group of large caps in energy, payments, big pharma and data software are at or within a few percent of their 52-week highs. Relative strength that holds up in a soft tape often persists. The basket spreads across sectors that are not crowded into the AI hardware pullback. Catalysts: - 2026-10-21 Chevron (CVX) stock hits all-time high at 227.28 USD (https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/chevron-stock-hits-alltime-high-at-22728-usd-93CH-4963826) Launch basket (equal weight): CVX, XOM, MA, V, AMGN, ABBV, LLY, PLTR, UNH, TMO Rules: 1. No inverse, leveraged or volatility ETFs. 2. Only names tradable at the enrolled brokers (Moomoo): no OTC listings, no dead tickers, nothing on the refused list.