Market Movers | Winners: LABT, ADVB, KUST | Losers: CPHI, SGRP, ATER
Beneath a quiet surface for major indices, extreme moves in smaller stocks highlight both opportunity and persistent risk.
The S&P 500 returned -0.1% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned 0.0% on the last trading day, a picture of calm that conceals the day’s real action. The session’s strongest stock, Lakewood-Amedex Biotherapeutics (LABT), gained +83.3%, yet its market value is only about $2.4 million.
This raises a critical question for any investor scanning the extremes: is a huge percentage move meaningful when the underlying company is so small? The day’s full list of winners and losers follows.
Wednesday’s Market Winners
The 8 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LABT | Lakewood-Amedex Biotherapeutics | 83.3% | n/a |
| 2 | ADVB | Advanced Biomed | 73.0% | 109.9% |
| 3 | KUST | Kustom Entertainment | 46.7% | n/a |
| 4 | KSCP | Knightscope | 45.5% | -43.9% |
| 5 | SLNG | Stabilis Solutions | 34.6% | 3.5% |
| 6 | QMLS | QumulusAI | 34.5% | n/a |
| 7 | RANI | Rani Therapeutics | 29.8% | -33.6% |
| 8 | CHAI | Core AI | 28.0% | -69.3% |
Wednesday’s Market Losers
And the 9 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CPHI | China Pharma | -78.9% | 41.3% |
| 2 | SGRP | SPAR | -43.6% | -63.7% |
| 3 | ATER | Aterian | -37.8% | -7.9% |
| 4 | VIVK | Vivakor | -36.8% | -95.9% |
| 5 | VEEE | Twin Vee PowerCats | -29.3% | -71.2% |
| 6 | PMI | Picard Medical | -27.1% | -95.0% |
| 7 | AGPU | Axe Compute | -25.5% | -0.6% |
| 8 | VTAK | Catheter Precision | -21.0% | -78.7% |
| 9 | SLND | Southland | -20.0% | -80.7% |
Vivakor’s decline shows weakness can persist for weeks.
Vivakor (VIVK) appears on both the one-day and one-month losers lists, a clear signal of sustained pressure. The stock’s one-month return is -81.4%. Even excluding today’s move, it still lost 70.6% over the other sessions. This demonstrates that a name appearing on a daily movers list can be more than a one-day event, sometimes representing the culmination of a much longer trend.
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 | ADVB | Advanced Biomed | 135.6% | 109.9% |
| 2 | CJMB | Callan Jmb | 127.3% | 51.4% |
| 3 | UTZ | Utz Brands | 89.7% | 37.8% |
| 4 | LVLU | Lulus Fashion Lounge | 77.0% | 260.7% |
| 5 | CPHI | China Pharma | 55.5% | 41.3% |
| 6 | GREE | Greenidge Generation | 52.3% | 98.6% |
| 7 | LABT | Lakewood-Amedex Biotherapeutics | 40.3% | n/a |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVVE | Nuvve | -73.1% | -87.3% |
| 2 | SOBR | Sobr Safe | -72.1% | -73.0% |
| 3 | PLAG | Planet Green | -67.9% | -73.1% |
| 4 | SGRP | SPAR | -65.4% | -63.7% |
| 5 | BURU | Nuburu | -65.4% | -94.8% |
| 6 | VIVK | Vivakor | -63.7% | -95.9% |
| 7 | ATER | Aterian | -50.3% | -7.9% |
| 8 | VIVS | VivoSim Labs | -45.9% | -74.5% |
| 9 | GCTK | GlucoTrack | -42.2% | -92.1% |
| 10 | PMI | Picard Medical | -41.5% | -95.0% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LIME | Neutron | 2955.8% | 2955.8% |
| 2 | BRKH | Burtech Acquisition II | 511.0% | 410.8% |
| 3 | VEEE | Twin Vee PowerCats | 228.5% | -71.2% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YHC | LQR House | -97.9% | -97.9% |
| 2 | WHLR | Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust | -91.5% | -99.5% |
| 3 | NXTS | Nexentis Technologies | -84.2% | -82.5% |
| 4 | VIVK | Vivakor | -81.4% | -95.9% |
| 5 | KALA | Kala Bio | -79.2% | -97.4% |
| 6 | CAST | FreeCast | -76.6% | n/a |
| 7 | LESL | Leslies | -73.9% | 46.1% |
| 8 | BURU | Nuburu | -73.7% | -94.8% |
| 9 | BJDX | Bluejay Diagnostics | -70.2% | -56.9% |
| 10 | SRXH | SRX Global | -69.9% | -85.3% |
A large move is a starting point, not a conclusion.
The tables of weekly and monthly movers earlier in this report, like the daily ones, are best used as a map of market attention and perceived risk. A sudden price change is information, but it is never an instruction to buy or sell. The disciplined next step is to investigate the underlying business. For example, China Pharma (CPHI), the day’s weakest stock with a return of -78.9%, saw its revenue decline 7.1% over the last twelve months. That single business fact provides more context than the stock chart alone.
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.