S&P 500 Movers | Winners: IP, SW, SLB | Losers: SNDK, COHR, CHRW
A flat index hid sharp moves in individual names, but the real story is in the stocks that keep showing up on the losers list.
The S&P 500 returned +0.0% on the last trading day, a quiet surface for a market with significant moves underneath. The day’s strongest S&P 500 stock was International Paper (IP), which returned +11.2%, while the weakest was SanDisk (SNDK) with a return of -10.8%. When does a single day’s sharp decline simply extend a trend that was already in motion? The day’s biggest movers tell two different stories.
Friday’s S&P 500 Winners
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
- Micron Traded Its Cost-Cutting Story For A Contract Story
- Why Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Jumped Despite Its Latest Quarterly Loss
- Booz Allen Soared On A Beat, Not A Boom
- Uber Technologies Stock Slides 11% Over 6 Straight Down Days
- CrowdStrike Stock Slides 13% Over 8 Straight Down Days
- Intel More Than Quadrupled In A Year, So Why Has It Cooled
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IP | International Paper | 11.2% | 9.7% |
| 2 | SW | Smurfit WestRock | 11.1% | 28.1% |
| 3 | SLB | SLB | 11.0% | 38.1% |
| 4 | DLR | Digital Realty Trust | 11.0% | 30.4% |
| 5 | PKG | Packaging of America | 8.8% | 24.9% |
| 6 | NOW | ServiceNow | 7.4% | -35.5% |
| 7 | VRSN | VeriSign | 7.0% | 16.0% |
| 8 | GDDY | GoDaddy | 6.3% | -24.9% |
| 9 | ADBE | Adobe | 6.1% | -35.7% |
| 10 | ACN | Accenture | 5.9% | -43.8% |
Friday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SNDK | SanDisk | -10.8% | 505.2% |
| 2 | COHR | Coherent | -9.8% | 53.0% |
| 3 | CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | -9.2% | 16.8% |
| 4 | LITE | Lumentum | -8.5% | 107.0% |
| 5 | INTC | Intel | -7.9% | 150.2% |
| 6 | WST | West Pharmaceutical Services | -7.7% | 19.5% |
| 7 | FLEX | Flex | -7.4% | 96.1% |
| 8 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -7.2% | 128.9% |
| 9 | MU | Micron Technology | -7.0% | 222.9% |
| 10 | WDC | Western Digital | -6.9% | 202.0% |
Is today’s weakness a new event or an old story?
For some names, today’s drop was not a surprise. SanDisk (SNDK) appears on both the one-day and one-month losers lists, with a one-month return of -25.0%. The same is true for Coherent (COHR), which has a one-month return of -28.1%. For both companies, the data shows their weakness has been building for weeks, making today’s performance an acceleration of an existing pattern rather than a sudden break.
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 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | 24.5% | 2.8% |
| 2 | WAB | Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies | 15.4% | 42.1% |
| 3 | LMT | Lockheed Martin | 14.5% | 21.9% |
| 4 | DLR | Digital Realty Trust | 14.5% | 30.4% |
| 5 | IP | International Paper | 12.2% | 9.7% |
| 6 | ALLE | Allegion | 11.7% | -2.9% |
| 7 | SLB | SLB | 11.6% | 38.1% |
| 8 | T | AT&T | 10.6% | 0.6% |
| 9 | DELL | Dell Technologies | 10.6% | 250.7% |
| 10 | RTX | RTX | 10.0% | 16.9% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TSLA | Tesla | -17.8% | -30.4% |
| 2 | ROL | Rollins | -14.5% | -35.3% |
| 3 | MRNA | Moderna | -12.5% | 83.4% |
| 4 | MSCI | MSCI | -12.4% | -3.3% |
| 5 | CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | -10.5% | 16.8% |
| 6 | CVNA | Carvana | -10.2% | -28.4% |
| 7 | DECK | Deckers Outdoor | -9.8% | -7.4% |
| 8 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | -9.7% | 56.4% |
| 9 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks | -9.7% | 75.8% |
| 10 | ORCL | Oracle | -9.0% | -40.4% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PYPL | PayPal | 32.2% | -3.2% |
| 2 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | 25.4% | 91.8% |
| 3 | VLO | Valero Energy | 24.8% | 87.8% |
| 4 | PSX | Phillips 66 | 22.6% | 62.7% |
| 5 | TECH | Bio-Techne | 21.6% | 22.1% |
| 6 | CF | CF Industries | 21.3% | 63.2% |
| 7 | TRV | Travelers Companies | 20.7% | 34.6% |
| 8 | GPN | Global Payments | 20.6% | 5.3% |
| 9 | CTAS | Cintas | 20.5% | 10.0% |
| 10 | LMT | Lockheed Martin | 18.5% | 21.9% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INTC | Intel | -29.9% | 150.2% |
| 2 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -29.8% | 128.9% |
| 3 | GNRC | Generac | -28.9% | 48.1% |
| 4 | GLW | Corning | -28.8% | 68.1% |
| 5 | COHR | Coherent | -28.1% | 53.0% |
| 6 | ORCL | Oracle | -26.8% | -40.4% |
| 7 | ON | ON Semiconductor | -25.0% | 60.3% |
| 8 | SNDK | SanDisk | -25.0% | 505.2% |
| 9 | ALB | Albemarle | -22.3% | -18.4% |
| 10 | FLEX | Flex | -21.4% | 96.1% |
A big move is the start of your work, not the end.
The movers lists shown earlier are a map of market attention, not a set of instructions. A stock’s appearance, whether for a day or a month, is information about risk and momentum. The disciplined follow-up is to look past the percentage change and check the fundamentals of the business behind the ticker. A persistent decline like that of SanDisk (SNDK) or a sudden gain like that of International Paper (IP) are prompts for research, not immediate action.
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.
Every Stock On That List Moved That Much In One Session
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