S&P 500 Movers | Winners: WDAY, ADSK, EXPE | Losers: SNDK, LITE, CHRW

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Today’s biggest market moves are not new stories, but chapters in a longer narrative of momentum.

The day’s biggest winner and its biggest loser share a common trait: persistence. Workday (WDAY) gained +9.0% today, but that move is part of a longer trend. SanDisk (SNDK) fell 11.0%, a decline that has also been building for weeks. This persistence raises a key question for any investor scanning the extremes.

The backdrop was a market searching for direction, with the S&P 500 returning +0.0% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned +0.5% and the Nasdaq-100 returned -0.3%. The day’s biggest movers tell a more decisive story.

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Monday’s S&P 500 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 WDAY Workday 9.0% -31.3%
2 ADSK Autodesk 7.7% -23.7%
3 EXPE Expedia 7.1% -1.3%
4 PLTR Palantir Technologies 7.0% -26.0%
5 NOW ServiceNow 6.9% -31.1%
6 CHTR Charter Communications 6.7% -37.0%
7 DASH DoorDash 6.6% -18.6%
8 CPRT Copart 6.6% -23.9%
9 TYL Tyler Technologies 6.3% -30.4%
10 CRM Salesforce 6.1% -34.1%

Monday’s S&P 500 Losers

And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 SNDK SanDisk -11.0% 438.5%
2 LITE Lumentum -6.7% 93.2%
3 CHRW C.H. Robinson Worldwide -6.5% 9.3%
4 TPL Texas Pacific Land -5.4% 38.5%
5 AMD Advanced Micro Devices -5.2% 131.1%
6 NVDA NVIDIA -5.0% 5.5%
7 FDXF FedEx Freight -4.9% n/a
8 TRGP Targa Resources -4.9% 46.5%
9 LRCX Lam Research -4.5% 70.7%
10 FANG Diamondback Energy -4.3% 31.7%

The biggest moves today have been building for weeks.

Workday (WDAY) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists, with a one-month return of +29.7%. Its strength is not a one-day event. The same pattern appears in the opposite direction. SanDisk (SNDK) and Lam Research (LRCX) are on both the one-day and one-month losers lists. Their respective one-month returns are -45.3% and -27.4%. For SanDisk, this performance comes even as its revenue grew 82.8% over the last twelve months.

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 25.1% 1.8%
2 IP International Paper 17.0% 10.4%
3 WAB Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies 16.7% 41.3%
4 SW Smurfit WestRock 16.1% 32.2%
5 GM General Motors 14.8% 7.5%
6 ALLE Allegion 14.5% 0.1%
7 LMT Lockheed Martin 13.8% 21.3%
8 RTX RTX 12.3% 20.0%
9 MMM 3M 12.0% 12.4%
10 DELL Dell Technologies 12.0% 242.2%

 

# Ticker Company Name 1-W
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 TSLA Tesla -16.3% -31.2%
2 CHRW C.H. Robinson Worldwide -15.2% 9.3%
3 ROL Rollins -12.7% -34.5%
4 TMUS T-Mobile US -9.4% -11.8%
5 CRWD CrowdStrike -9.3% 53.7%
6 PANW Palo Alto Networks -9.0% 72.3%
7 MSCI MSCI -8.7% 0.3%
8 HAL Halliburton -8.5% 14.7%
9 AKAM Akamai Technologies -8.3% 29.3%
10 SNDK SanDisk -8.1% 438.5%

Movers Over The Last Month

And over the last 21 trading days:

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 PYPL PayPal 32.3% -3.3%
2 WDAY Workday 29.7% -31.3%
3 FDS FactSet Research Systems 27.3% -7.4%
4 CTAS Cintas 24.8% 12.7%
5 ACN Accenture 23.9% -41.1%
6 GPN Global Payments 23.3% 9.4%
7 MPC Marathon Petroleum 23.2% 93.8%
8 VEEV Veeva Systems 23.0% -12.9%
9 ADBE Adobe 22.9% -32.1%
10 TRV Travelers Companies 22.6% 35.6%

 

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 SNDK SanDisk -45.3% 438.5%
2 GLW Corning -37.1% 64.3%
3 COHR Coherent -33.4% 47.0%
4 GNRC Generac -33.1% 44.9%
5 MRVL Marvell Technology -32.7% 122.9%
6 INTC Intel -31.0% 148.4%
7 TER Teradyne -29.1% 73.1%
8 FLEX Flex -28.0% 92.1%
9 LRCX Lam Research -27.4% 70.7%
10 WDC Western Digital -26.3% 189.2%

A movers list is a map of attention, not a set of instructions.

The tables earlier in this report show where capital and attention are focused. A large, sudden move is information, signaling a shift in how the market perceives a company’s risk and future. But a ticker on a leaderboard is never a command to buy or sell.

The disciplined work begins after reading the list. It involves examining the business behind the stock that has captured the market’s notice. Rather than simply reacting to the noise of a single day, week, or month, the goal is to understand the fundamentals.

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.

Every Stock On That List Moved That Much In One Session

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