Market Movers | Winners: ATPC, IQST, VEEE | Losers: NVVE, SOBR, PLAG
Some of the day’s biggest moves are not new stories, raising the question of how to separate a fresh signal from an established trend.
Twin Vee PowerCats (VEEE) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists, while T3 Defense (DFNS) shows up on both loser lists. This raises the central question for any daily tape-watcher: when is a big move a new signal, and when is it just an echo of an existing trend?
The backdrop was negative, with the S&P 500 returning -0.5% and the Nasdaq-100 returning -1.6%. Against that tape, the day’s extremes are worth a closer look.
Thursday’s Market Winners
The 9 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ATPC | Agape ATP | 66.7% | -21.1% |
| 2 | IQST | iQSTEL | 38.4% | -58.1% |
| 3 | VEEE | Twin Vee PowerCats | 36.1% | -43.8% |
| 4 | CDNA | CareDx | 35.6% | 114.1% |
| 5 | ATAI | AtaiBeckley | 33.4% | 74.8% |
| 6 | MAN | ManpowerGroup | 32.4% | 77.8% |
| 7 | LIMN | Liminatus Pharma | 29.0% | -75.8% |
| 8 | DSGR | Distribution Solutions | 25.3% | 25.7% |
| 9 | MERC | Mercer International | 17.3% | -66.2% |
Thursday’s Market Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVVE | Nuvve | -61.1% | -81.7% |
| 2 | SOBR | Sobr Safe | -51.7% | -53.3% |
| 3 | PLAG | Planet Green | -48.2% | -56.6% |
| 4 | ALP | Alpha Compute | -36.1% | n/a |
| 5 | JAGX | Jaguar Health | -31.5% | -95.9% |
| 6 | GORO | Gold Resource | -30.4% | 11.8% |
| 7 | DFNS | T3 Defense | -28.9% | n/a |
| 8 | VIVS | VivoSim Labs | -28.1% | -66.1% |
| 9 | SGRP | SPAR | -27.9% | -24.2% |
| 10 | SST | System1 | -24.8% | -51.3% |
Is this move just today’s noise?
For some names, the answer is clearly no. The strength in Twin Vee PowerCats (VEEE) is not a one-day event, as its one-month return is +529.2%. The same persistence appears on the downside for T3 Defense (DFNS), where its one-month return is -76.1%.
Other moves are more isolated. The day’s top gainer, Agape ATP (ATPC), returned +66.7%. This is a company with a market value of about $4.2 million whose revenue grew 16.7% over the last twelve months.
Movers Over The Last Week
Widening the window to five trading days, these are the strongest and weakest Market names:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BRKH | Burtech Acquisition II | 720.7% | 409.2% |
| 2 | VEEE | Twin Vee PowerCats | 688.2% | -43.8% |
| 3 | NXTC | NextCure | 208.5% | -56.5% |
| 4 | CPHI | China Pharma | 92.1% | 1.7% |
| 5 | LEDS | SemiLEDs | 58.1% | 63.3% |
| 6 | AGEN | Agenus | 54.3% | 59.2% |
| 7 | ATPC | Agape ATP | 48.4% | -21.1% |
| 8 | OSRH | OSR Health | 47.6% | -13.9% |
| 9 | NWTG | Newton Golf | 47.1% | -23.3% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DFNS | T3 Defense | -66.5% | n/a |
| 2 | LESL | Leslies | -58.1% | 67.3% |
| 3 | SNTI | Senti Biosciences | -54.0% | -55.8% |
| 4 | ILLR | Triller | -47.9% | 284.4% |
| 5 | PLAG | Planet Green | -47.2% | -56.6% |
| 6 | SNWV | SANUWAVE Health | -45.0% | -77.7% |
| 7 | VTAK | Catheter Precision | -43.9% | -65.0% |
| 8 | JAGX | Jaguar Health | -43.7% | -95.9% |
| 9 | SBEV | Splash Beverage | -43.4% | -86.4% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LIME | Neutron | 2959.3% | 2959.3% |
| 2 | VEEE | Twin Vee PowerCats | 529.2% | -43.8% |
| 3 | BRKH | Burtech Acquisition II | 501.8% | 409.2% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WHLR | Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust | -88.0% | -99.4% |
| 2 | CIIT | Tianci International | -78.1% | -86.1% |
| 3 | DFNS | T3 Defense | -76.1% | n/a |
| 4 | LABT | Lakewood-Amedex Biotherapeutics | -75.0% | n/a |
| 5 | KIDZ | KIDZ AI | -73.1% | -99.5% |
| 6 | BJDX | Bluejay Diagnostics | -72.9% | -51.3% |
| 7 | STI | Solidion Technology | -70.0% | -11.7% |
| 8 | PFSA | Profusa | -68.5% | -99.1% |
| 9 | KALA | Kala Bio | -67.9% | -97.0% |
So what is the disciplined next step?
A movers list is a map of attention and volatility, not a set of instructions. A stock’s presence here, especially on the one-day list, is simply a signal that something has changed to draw a crowd. The disciplined follow-up is always the same: to check the business behind the ticker.
The one-week and one-month tables below offer a wider lens. They help filter the signal from the noise, showing which moves have legs and which were fleeting. Use them to build a watchlist for further research, not a shopping list.
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.
The Tape Rewards Attention. It Punishes Reaction
Big daily moves pull hard at both greed and fear, and acting on either, day after day, is how most portfolios end up trailing the index they were trying to beat.
The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio is built for the opposite reflex: about 30 quality businesses screened for the fundamentals that survive volatile stretches, held with rules instead of reactions. 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. Read the movers daily; trade them rarely.