Market Movers | Winners: NVEC, CJMB, ADVB | Losers: LESL, NVVE, WHLR
Beneath a down day for the major indexes, extreme moves in individual stocks raise questions about momentum and sudden reversals.
The S&P 500 returned -1.2% on a day of broad declines, but the real action was in the extremes. NVE (NVEC) finished the session up +54.8% while Leslies (LESL) closed down 44.8%.
This raises the central question for any tape-watcher: are such dramatic moves a sudden break from the recent past, or the sharp end of a trend that was already in motion? The day’s full leaderboards follow.
Thursday’s Market Winners
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The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVEC | NVE | 54.8% | 132.2% |
| 2 | CJMB | Callan Jmb | 39.9% | 111.7% |
| 3 | ADVB | Advanced Biomed | 37.0% | 187.5% |
| 4 | SKYQ | Sky Quarry | 36.6% | 215.4% |
| 5 | VIVK | Vivakor | 30.1% | -94.6% |
| 6 | NVCR | NovoCure | 28.4% | 54.6% |
| 7 | THRM | Gentherm | 26.5% | 25.4% |
| 8 | DOMO | Domo | 25.4% | -53.1% |
| 9 | AIRE | ReAlpha Tech | 22.8% | -85.0% |
| 10 | RELL | Richardson Electronics | 21.2% | 102.5% |
Thursday’s Market Losers
And the 8 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LESL | Leslies | -44.8% | -19.4% |
| 2 | NVVE | Nuvve | -44.2% | -92.9% |
| 3 | WHLR | Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust | -28.0% | -99.6% |
| 4 | ACI | Albertsons Companies | -22.8% | -33.1% |
| 5 | JAGX | Jaguar Health | -22.6% | -96.8% |
| 6 | LBRT | Liberty Energy | -22.0% | 6.9% |
| 7 | SSTK | Shutterstock | -22.0% | -69.2% |
| 8 | VEEE | Twin Vee PowerCats | -21.9% | -77.5% |
How much of today’s action was already in motion?
In some key cases, today’s moves were an acceleration, not a reversal. Leslies (LESL), the day’s weakest name, also appears on the one-month losers list with a total return of -86.5%. The source data confirms its weakness has been building for weeks. This performance follows a period where its revenue declined 7.5% over the last twelve months.
On the winning side, Sky Quarry (SKYQ) shows similar persistence. It appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists, with a one-month return of +243.9%. The data notes its strength is not a one-day event.
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 | SHOT | RMG ML Sports | 654.6% | 280.2% |
| 2 | ADVB | Advanced Biomed | 242.4% | 187.5% |
| 3 | CJMB | Callan Jmb | 172.9% | 111.7% |
| 4 | UTZ | Utz Brands | 88.4% | 38.1% |
| 5 | LVLU | Lulus Fashion Lounge | 81.4% | 254.4% |
| 6 | GREE | Vulcan Infrastructure and Power | 69.0% | 91.9% |
| 7 | LABT | Lakewood-Amedex Biotherapeutics | 65.4% | n/a |
| 8 | NVEC | NVE | 54.4% | 132.2% |
| 9 | CPHI | China Pharma | 50.4% | 52.9% |
| 10 | SKYQ | Sky Quarry | 47.6% | 215.4% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BURU | Nuburu | -65.3% | -94.8% |
| 2 | QMLS | QumulusAI | -61.7% | n/a |
| 3 | NVVE | Nuvve | -61.5% | -92.9% |
| 4 | VEEE | Twin Vee PowerCats | -59.9% | -77.5% |
| 5 | ATER | Aterian | -57.0% | -20.9% |
| 6 | LESL | Leslies | -51.8% | -19.4% |
| 7 | VIVK | Vivakor | -50.2% | -94.6% |
| 8 | ERNA | Ernexa Therapeutics | -44.0% | -86.7% |
| 9 | VBIO | Valion Bio | -41.4% | -80.3% |
| 10 | GIPR | Generation Income Properties | -40.1% | -88.4% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LIME | Neutron | 3022.1% | 3022.1% |
| 2 | SHOT | RMG ML Sports | 537.0% | 280.2% |
| 3 | SKYQ | Sky Quarry | 243.9% | 215.4% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YHC | LQR House | -97.7% | -98.0% |
| 2 | WHLR | Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust | -92.2% | -99.6% |
| 3 | LESL | Leslies | -86.5% | -19.4% |
| 4 | KALA | Kala Bio | -80.4% | -97.8% |
| 5 | VIVK | Vivakor | -76.3% | -94.6% |
| 6 | CAST | FreeCast | -74.8% | n/a |
| 7 | BURU | Nuburu | -71.8% | -94.8% |
| 8 | BJDX | Bluejay Diagnostics | -70.6% | -57.3% |
| 9 | VMAR | Vision Marine Technologies | -69.4% | -99.0% |
So what is the right way to read these lists?
A movers list is a map of where the market’s attention and capital are flowing, not a set of instructions. The weekly and monthly tables shown earlier reveal which names have sustained momentum and which are just one-day events. A large move is simply information.
The disciplined follow-up is always the same: to investigate the business behind the ticker. A stock making an extreme move is the beginning of a question, not the end of one.
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.