S&P 500 Movers | Winners: SNDK, WDC, MU | Losers: DHR, MSCI, TYL
A day of fresh extremes saw high-growth names surge while others faltered, raising questions about market momentum.
SanDisk (SNDK) led the market with a +14.3% return on a day that saw broad gains. The S&P 500 returned +0.9% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 returned +1.9%.
The key question today is about persistence. When the biggest moves are entirely new, what does that signal about market conviction? The day’s winners and losers below offer the first clues.
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Winners
- CrowdStrike Stock Slides 9.3% Over 5 Straight Down Days
- 15 S&P 500 Stocks Just Made New 52-Week Highs
- 7 S&P 500 Stocks Just Touched 52-Week Lows
- The 52-Week-Low List: 19 Names On Tuesday
- Where The Buying Ran Strongest: 54 Small Cap Stocks At 52-Week Highs
- Market Movers | Winners: CPHI, UTZ, VIVK | Losers: BURU, LSTA, QMLS
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SNDK | SanDisk | 14.3% | 569.6% |
| 2 | WDC | Western Digital | 12.5% | 218.6% |
| 3 | MU | Micron Technology | 12.2% | 240.3% |
| 4 | TER | Teradyne | 12.1% | 93.4% |
| 5 | COHR | Coherent | 11.1% | 71.9% |
| 6 | STX | Seagate Technology | 11.1% | 224.6% |
| 7 | COIN | Coinbase Global | 9.6% | -22.2% |
| 8 | LITE | Lumentum | 9.4% | 127.2% |
| 9 | HAS | Hasbro | 8.8% | 9.9% |
| 10 | INTC | Intel | 8.6% | 185.8% |
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DHR | Danaher | -11.0% | -21.5% |
| 2 | MSCI | MSCI | -10.1% | -1.3% |
| 3 | TYL | Tyler Technologies | -5.7% | -34.0% |
| 4 | HAL | Halliburton | -5.5% | 18.5% |
| 5 | IT | Gartner | -4.5% | -46.6% |
| 6 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | -4.1% | -15.2% |
| 7 | VRSN | VeriSign | -4.1% | 10.2% |
| 8 | WDAY | Workday | -4.1% | -34.3% |
| 9 | ERIE | Erie Indemnity | -4.1% | -23.4% |
| 10 | BLDR | Builders FirstSource | -4.1% | -32.2% |
Are these moves continuations of a trend?
The data suggests they are not. No stock appears on both the one-day and one-month leaderboards on the same side today. This indicates the day’s extremes are mostly fresh moves rather than continuations.
Consider the bookends. The day’s top performer, SanDisk (SNDK), has seen its revenue grow 82.8% over the last twelve months and trades at 52.2 times trailing earnings. In contrast, the day’s weakest stock, Danaher (DHR), which returned -11.0%, saw revenue growth of 4.0% and trades at 34.4 times trailing earnings.
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 | 17.9% | -3.7% |
| 2 | HAS | Hasbro | 13.2% | 9.9% |
| 3 | ABT | Abbott Laboratories | 12.8% | -19.0% |
| 4 | SWKS | Skyworks Solutions | 11.3% | 1.3% |
| 5 | TRV | Travelers Companies | 9.7% | 28.4% |
| 6 | MMM | 3M | 9.1% | 7.7% |
| 7 | COIN | Coinbase Global | 8.9% | -22.2% |
| 8 | CTAS | Cintas | 8.7% | 7.1% |
| 9 | VTRS | Viatris | 7.8% | 43.5% |
| 10 | BMY | Bristol-Myers Squibb | 7.0% | 16.8% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PNR | Pentair | -18.8% | -40.6% |
| 2 | GLW | Corning | -13.4% | 86.1% |
| 3 | MRNA | Moderna | -11.5% | 102.3% |
| 4 | DELL | Dell Technologies | -11.5% | 224.0% |
| 5 | DHR | Danaher | -10.1% | -21.5% |
| 6 | SNDK | SanDisk | -9.6% | 569.6% |
| 7 | ERIE | Erie Indemnity | -9.5% | -23.4% |
| 8 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | -9.3% | 63.1% |
| 9 | PGR | Progressive | -9.1% | -3.7% |
| 10 | SNPS | Synopsys | -8.6% | -17.2% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VLO | Valero Energy | 33.2% | 95.5% |
| 2 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | 31.6% | 98.4% |
| 3 | PYPL | PayPal | 31.4% | -3.7% |
| 4 | PSX | Phillips 66 | 27.8% | 67.1% |
| 5 | TECH | Bio-Techne | 23.6% | 22.2% |
| 6 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 23.4% | -15.2% |
| 7 | WDAY | Workday | 20.7% | -34.3% |
| 8 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | 20.7% | -10.0% |
| 9 | VTR | Ventas | 20.3% | 27.7% |
| 10 | IQV | IQVIA | 20.2% | -10.6% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -33.0% | 145.1% |
| 2 | ORCL | Oracle | -30.8% | -34.2% |
| 3 | SNDK | SanDisk | -27.3% | 569.6% |
| 4 | WDC | Western Digital | -26.5% | 218.6% |
| 5 | ALB | Albemarle | -26.0% | -15.7% |
| 6 | ON | ON Semiconductor | -25.1% | 68.2% |
| 7 | QCOM | Qualcomm | -23.3% | 2.5% |
| 8 | GNRC | Generac | -22.8% | 58.1% |
| 9 | INTC | Intel | -21.3% | 185.8% |
| 10 | FSLR | First Solar | -20.0% | -21.1% |
So what is the disciplined way to use these tables?
A movers list is a map of attention, not a set of instructions. The sharp gains and losses you see in the daily, weekly, and monthly tables above are signals of heightened activity and risk. They are starting points for research, not finishing lines.
The disciplined follow-up is always the same: investigate the business behind the ticker. A stock’s sudden appearance on a leaderboard is a prompt to understand the fundamentals, not a reason to ignore them.
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.