S&P 500 Movers | Winners: ABT, JBHT, FDXF | Losers: SNDK, STX, GLW

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A quiet day for the index hid significant turmoil among individual technology stocks.

The S&P 500 returned -0.5% in a day of modest retreat for the broad market. Yet within that quiet average, Abbott Laboratories (ABT) posted a gain of +10.7%, a sharp contrast to the index’s direction. The day’s full list of winners and losers reveals the extent of this divergence.

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Thursday’s S&P 500 Winners

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

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# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 ABT Abbott Laboratories 10.7% -19.7%
2 JBHT JB Hunt Transport Services 8.0% 54.1%
3 FDXF FedEx Freight 7.5% n/a
4 ERIE Erie Indemnity 7.5% -19.9%
5 DXCM DexCom 7.2% 17.5%
6 CTAS Cintas 7.2% 10.2%
7 IR Ingersoll Rand 7.1% 7.1%
8 IT Gartner 6.8% -43.4%
9 CSGP CoStar 6.6% -54.8%
10 DPZ Domino’s Pizza 6.0% -20.0%

Thursday’s S&P 500 Losers

And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 SNDK SanDisk -12.6% 494.4%
2 STX Seagate Technology -10.0% 171.4%
3 GLW Corning -9.2% 81.5%
4 WDC Western Digital -9.2% 171.2%
5 MRVL Marvell Technology -8.7% 121.9%
6 HOOD Robinhood Markets -8.2% -6.3%
7 SMCI Super Micro Computer -8.2% -15.7%
8 MRNA Moderna -7.5% 114.1%
9 COHR Coherent -7.5% 50.1%
10 CIEN Ciena -7.1% 66.3%

Some of today’s losses were weeks in the making.

The daily leaderboard is not always a list of surprises. SanDisk (SNDK) was the day’s weakest stock with a return of -12.6%, but this follows a longer trend; its one-month return is -33.1%.

A similar pattern appears for Seagate Technology (STX). The stock’s -10.0% daily decline adds to a one-month return of -26.8%. For both companies, today’s sharp moves are an extension of weakness that has been building for weeks.

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 PYPL PayPal 25.2% -2.2%
2 CTAS Cintas 16.1% 10.2%
3 IR Ingersoll Rand 10.0% 7.1%
4 DG Dollar General 9.9% -2.9%
5 GIS General Mills 9.8% -12.7%
6 DPZ Domino’s Pizza 9.6% -20.0%
7 GDDY GoDaddy 9.5% -22.5%
8 WY Weyerhaeuser 8.7% 5.0%
9 MOS Mosaic 8.6% -4.7%
10 FDS FactSet Research Systems 8.5% -8.6%

 

# Ticker Company Name 1-W
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 IBM International Business Machines -25.8% -25.1%
2 SNDK SanDisk -24.1% 494.4%
3 MRVL Marvell Technology -22.6% 121.9%
4 WDC Western Digital -19.2% 171.2%
5 GLW Corning -17.7% 81.5%
6 MRNA Moderna -17.5% 114.1%
7 APP AppLovin -16.5% -35.5%
8 STX Seagate Technology -16.2% 171.4%
9 CIEN Ciena -15.9% 66.3%
10 COHR Coherent -15.4% 50.1%

Movers Over The Last Month

And over the last 21 trading days:

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 PYPL PayPal 33.5% -2.2%
2 TECH Bio-Techne 27.8% 22.4%
3 PANW Palo Alto Networks 24.4% 92.2%
4 GDDY GoDaddy 24.2% -22.5%
5 AXON Axon Enterprise 22.2% -4.6%
6 MPC Marathon Petroleum 21.9% 89.7%
7 VEEV Veeva Systems 21.7% -11.6%
8 CRL Charles River Laboratories International 21.6% 14.9%
9 VLO Valero Energy 21.5% 86.5%
10 MRNA Moderna 21.1% 114.1%

 

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 MRVL Marvell Technology -39.0% 121.9%
2 ORCL Oracle -35.3% -35.7%
3 COHR Coherent -33.1% 50.1%
4 SNDK SanDisk -33.1% 494.4%
5 ON ON Semiconductor -30.0% 62.7%
6 ALB Albemarle -29.3% -15.1%
7 WDC Western Digital -28.6% 171.2%
8 STX Seagate Technology -26.8% 171.4%
9 LITE Lumentum -26.2% 91.6%
10 TER Teradyne -25.5% 66.6%

A large move is a starting point for research.

A list of extreme movers is a map of market attention, not a set of instructions. A double-digit change in a single session signals that a stock’s risk profile is being reassessed, but it does not explain the reason.

The disciplined follow-up is to look past the percentage and into the business itself. As the weekly and monthly tables below show, some moves are fleeting while others persist. Understanding that difference begins with the fundamentals, not the tape.

Either side of these lists can be a lead worth following, with the same follow-up question: does the business back the move? For the winners, our Guidance Momentum screen tracks which companies raised their own forward numbers. For the losers, our Buy the Dip screen flags which marked-down names still have the fundamentals to recover.

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.