S&P 500 Movers | Winners: FDS, IT, INTU | Losers: APP, SNDK, MRVL

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A down day for the indexes saw some familiar names under pressure, raising questions about which moves matter most.

Some of the day’s sharpest losses are not new. Oracle (ORCL) and ON Semiconductor (ON) appear on both the one-day and one-month losers lists, a sign of persistent pressure. This happened against a backdrop of broad market declines, with the S&P 500 returning -0.8% and the Nasdaq-100 returning -1.9%.

The central question for any investor looking at today’s tape is how to separate a one-day reaction from a developing trend. The day’s biggest winners and losers below are the starting point.

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Monday’s S&P 500 Winners

The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 FDS FactSet Research Systems 6.5% -8.4%
2 IT Gartner 6.1% -44.0%
3 INTU Intuit 5.4% -55.8%
4 VLO Valero Energy 5.4% 83.7%
5 PSX Phillips 66 5.3% 56.1%
6 BIIB Biogen 5.0% 18.8%
7 CRM Salesforce 4.8% -35.0%
8 CASY Casey’s General Stores 4.8% 55.7%
9 MPC Marathon Petroleum 4.6% 84.2%
10 DOW Dow 4.6% 32.8%

Monday’s S&P 500 Losers

And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 APP AppLovin -12.6% -34.3%
2 SNDK SanDisk -12.6% 605.2%
3 MRVL Marvell Technology -7.8% 156.4%
4 ORCL Oracle -6.5% -31.9%
5 INTC Intel -6.1% 179.5%
6 LRCX Lam Research -5.8% 93.1%
7 ON ON Semiconductor -5.8% 66.9%
8 STX Seagate Technology -5.5% 213.3%
9 COHR Coherent -5.3% 66.5%
10 RL Ralph Lauren -5.2% 6.5%

Is today’s weakness a new story or an old one?

For at least two names on the daily losers list, the weakness has been building for weeks. Oracle’s one-month return is -34.4%. For ON Semiconductor, the one-month return is -18.0%. The presence of these companies on multiple lists shows that a single day’s trading can be part of a much larger, sustained move. It highlights that not all volatility is created equal.

Movers Over The Last Week

Widening the window to five trading days, these are the strongest and weakest S&P 500 names:

# Ticker Company Name 1-W
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 CBOE Cboe Global Markets 13.1% 10.9%
2 OXY Occidental Petroleum 12.3% 34.5%
3 PSX Phillips 66 11.8% 56.1%
4 DOW Dow 11.1% 32.8%
5 AKAM Akamai Technologies 11.0% 43.4%
6 MPC Marathon Petroleum 10.4% 84.2%
7 FANG Diamondback Energy 10.3% 28.9%
8 LYB LyondellBasell Industries 10.1% 37.7%
9 HPQ HP 9.6% 14.4%
10 HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9.5% 98.5%

 

# Ticker Company Name 1-W
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 APP AppLovin -18.6% -34.3%
2 MRNA Moderna -18.1% 127.2%
3 INTC Intel -15.6% 179.5%
4 MRVL Marvell Technology -12.7% 156.4%
5 AXON Axon Enterprise -12.1% -3.7%
6 GNRC Generac -12.0% 66.4%
7 BLDR Builders FirstSource -10.7% -28.6%
8 TER Teradyne -10.1% 76.4%
9 GEV GE Vernova -9.5% 59.8%

Movers Over The Last Month

And over the last 21 trading days:

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 MRNA Moderna 45.7% 127.2%
2 TECH Bio-Techne 35.9% 21.7%
3 HOOD Robinhood Markets 27.2% -2.9%
4 DASH DoorDash 25.5% -16.3%
5 GPC Genuine Parts 25.5% 2.5%
6 PANW Palo Alto Networks 25.5% 79.3%
7 GPN Global Payments 23.5% -0.0%
8 CRL Charles River Laboratories International 23.3% 15.2%
9 ZBRA Zebra Technologies 23.0% 9.8%
10 AXON Axon Enterprise 22.2% -3.7%

 

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 ORCL Oracle -34.4% -31.9%
2 ECHO EchoStar -19.4% -14.5%
3 ON ON Semiconductor -18.0% 66.9%
4 FOXA Fox -17.8% -23.1%
5 ACN Accenture -17.8% -47.0%
6 FOX Fox -17.7% -22.2%
7 SWKS Skyworks Solutions -17.1% -6.2%
8 CSGP CoStar -16.0% -57.2%
9 FDXF FedEx Freight -15.4%
10 CTSH Cognizant Technology Solutions -14.8% -46.1%

What is the right way to read a movers list?

A large daily move is an alert, not an instruction. It flags where the market’s attention and capital are flowing, for better or worse. A stock returning +6.5% like FactSet Research Systems (FDS) or one returning -12.6% like AppLovin (APP) deserves a closer look, but the list itself provides no verdict. The disciplined follow-up is always to check the business fundamentals behind the numbers. The weekly and monthly tables above can help identify which moves have staying power and which are just noise.

The next step is never to trade the list; it is to test it. Our Guidance Momentum screen shows which risers have management raising guidance behind them, and our Buy the Dip screen shows which of the fallers still generate the growth and cash that make a recovery plausible.

Today’s Winner Is Tomorrow’s Loser Often Enough

The movers list is the most honest picture of single-stock risk the market prints each day: the same volatility that makes the winners column also fills the losers column, and no one reliably knows which side a stock lands on next.

That is the case for owning a disciplined basket instead of chasing the tape. The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio holds roughly 30 businesses selected for consistent cash generation, strong margins, and resilient balance sheets, sized and rebalanced with rules. It has a track record of outpacing a benchmark that combines all major indices – the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Watch the movers for information; let the portfolio do the compounding.