S&P 500 Movers | Winners: GPN, LITE, TER | Losers: CVNA, HONA, ORCL
Beneath a quiet surface for the index, a few names are showing persistent strength and weakness that stretches back for weeks.
Global Payments (GPN) was the strongest S&P 500 stock of the day, returning +5.8% while the index itself returned -0.2%. In a market that barely moved, the real question is whether the day’s extremes are isolated events or part of a larger trend. The one-day tables show the full scope of today’s dispersion.
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 | GPN | Global Payments | 5.8% | 7.2% |
| 2 | LITE | Lumentum | 4.5% | 107.7% |
| 3 | TER | Teradyne | 3.5% | 72.6% |
| 4 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | 3.4% | -7.1% |
| 5 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 3.3% | 129.7% |
| 6 | BF-B | Brown-Forman | 3.2% | 3.2% |
| 7 | COHR | Coherent | 2.8% | 54.6% |
| 8 | SNDK | SanDisk | 2.7% | 486.0% |
| 9 | DASH | DoorDash | 2.7% | -16.5% |
| 10 | LYB | LyondellBasell Industries | 2.6% | 43.4% |
Monday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CVNA | Carvana | -4.8% | -24.0% |
| 2 | HONA | Honeywell Aerospace | -4.3% | n/a |
| 3 | ORCL | Oracle | -4.0% | -37.1% |
| 4 | KKR | KKR | -3.9% | -23.6% |
| 5 | UPS | United Parcel Service | -3.9% | 17.6% |
| 6 | DELL | Dell Technologies | -3.8% | 204.2% |
| 7 | CMG | Chipotle Mexican Grill | -3.8% | -10.5% |
| 8 | MRNA | Moderna | -3.8% | 101.7% |
| 9 | WBD | Warner Bros. Discovery | -3.8% | -10.3% |
| 10 | ARES | Ares Management | -3.5% | -23.2% |
Is today’s action just noise, or part of a bigger story?
Persistence is the dominant theme. Global Payments (GPN) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists, with a one-month return of +24.1%. Axon Enterprise (AXON) shows a similar pattern, with a one-month return of +24.7%.
The same is true on the downside. Oracle (ORCL) is on both the one-day and one-month losers lists, with its one-month return standing at -33.6%. These are not one-day events; the weakness 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 | 19.2% | -2.1% |
| 2 | ABT | Abbott Laboratories | 11.2% | -17.4% |
| 3 | CTAS | Cintas | 9.8% | 7.8% |
| 4 | TRV | Travelers Companies | 7.9% | 28.0% |
| 5 | ROST | Ross Stores | 7.4% | 31.4% |
| 6 | GPN | Global Payments | 7.2% | 7.2% |
| 7 | PM | Philip Morris International | 7.0% | 22.2% |
| 8 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | 6.2% | 95.6% |
| 9 | DPZ | Domino’s Pizza | 6.2% | -20.2% |
| 10 | VLO | Valero Energy | 5.9% | 94.6% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IBM | International Business Machines | -26.6% | -27.1% |
| 2 | PNR | Pentair | -18.8% | -40.0% |
| 3 | SNDK | SanDisk | -16.9% | 486.0% |
| 4 | GLW | Corning | -16.4% | 75.4% |
| 5 | CIEN | Ciena | -15.0% | 62.0% |
| 6 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | -13.8% | -18.6% |
| 7 | ISRG | Intuitive Surgical | -13.3% | -37.6% |
| 8 | SNPS | Synopsys | -12.8% | -19.4% |
| 9 | CDNS | Cadence Design Systems | -12.7% | 5.6% |
| 10 | WDC | Western Digital | -12.3% | 183.1% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PYPL | PayPal | 35.0% | -2.1% |
| 2 | VLO | Valero Energy | 30.7% | 94.6% |
| 3 | TECH | Bio-Techne | 30.3% | 22.2% |
| 4 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | 28.9% | 95.6% |
| 5 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 27.5% | -11.6% |
| 6 | PSX | Phillips 66 | 24.9% | 64.3% |
| 7 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | 24.7% | -7.1% |
| 8 | GDDY | GoDaddy | 24.6% | -23.6% |
| 9 | GPN | Global Payments | 24.1% | 7.2% |
| 10 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks | 23.6% | 89.3% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ORCL | Oracle | -33.6% | -37.1% |
| 2 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -32.7% | 129.7% |
| 3 | WDC | Western Digital | -31.6% | 183.1% |
| 4 | ALB | Albemarle | -29.0% | -16.0% |
| 5 | SNDK | SanDisk | -29.0% | 486.0% |
| 6 | STX | Seagate Technology | -24.7% | 192.1% |
| 7 | COHR | Coherent | -24.7% | 54.6% |
| 8 | ON | ON Semiconductor | -23.2% | 60.1% |
| 9 | GNRC | Generac | -20.5% | 56.4% |
| 10 | QCOM | Qualcomm | -20.0% | 0.6% |
So how should a disciplined investor read these lists?
The tables earlier in this report are a map of market attention, not a set of instructions. A large daily move is a signal to investigate the underlying business, not a reason to act.
Consider the day’s biggest loser, Carvana (CVNA). A next step is to note that it trades at 31.8 times trailing earnings and its revenue grew 51.7% over the last twelve months. This is the work: using the leaderboard as a starting point for diligence, not a finish line.
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.