S&P 500 Movers | Winners: PLTR, ZBRA, IT | Losers: APTV, NRG, CMG
A strong day for the broad market still produced extreme moves at the stock level, raising questions about momentum.
Palantir Technologies (PLTR) was the strongest S&P 500 stock of the day, returning +29.5% in a session where the wider index saw broad gains. The S&P 500 returned +1.8% and the Nasdaq-100 returned +3.3%. On a day with such positive market returns, the key question is what separates a one-day surge from a sustained trend.
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Winners
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
- Procore Technologies Stock Rides A 8-Day Winning Streak To A 36% Gain
- PTC Stock Rides A 8-Day Winning Streak To A 25% Gain
- 36 S&P 500 Stocks Hit 52-Week Highs On Tuesday
- The 52-Week-High List: 91 Small Cap Names On Tuesday
- The 52-Week-Low List: 3 S&P 500 Names On Tuesday
- 38 Mid Cap Stocks Just Made New 52-Week Highs
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PLTR | Palantir Technologies | 29.5% | -8.5% |
| 2 | ZBRA | Zebra Technologies | 26.5% | 51.9% |
| 3 | IT | Gartner | 22.6% | -26.4% |
| 4 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 12.8% | 157.6% |
| 5 | COHR | Coherent | 12.4% | 75.4% |
| 6 | SNDK | SanDisk | 10.8% | 501.4% |
| 7 | INTC | Intel | 10.8% | 173.3% |
| 8 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | 10.6% | 8.3% |
| 9 | TER | Teradyne | 10.3% | 108.7% |
| 10 | LDOS | Leidos | 10.0% | -27.2% |
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APTV | Aptiv | -16.6% | -37.3% |
| 2 | NRG | NRG Energy | -15.5% | -25.8% |
| 3 | CMG | Chipotle Mexican Grill | -9.7% | -8.6% |
| 4 | VST | Vistra | -8.2% | -11.0% |
| 5 | ARE | Alexandria Real Estate Equities | -7.8% | 2.8% |
| 6 | ROK | Rockwell Automation | -7.4% | 15.2% |
| 7 | GWW | W.W. Grainger | -5.2% | 29.4% |
| 8 | PLD | Prologis | -3.5% | 10.6% |
| 9 | FANG | Diamondback Energy | -3.5% | 29.1% |
| 10 | RVTY | Revvity | -3.3% | 15.4% |
Some of today’s biggest moves have been building for weeks.
The day’s weakest stock, Aptiv (APTV), also appears on the one-month losers list, with a total one-month return of -20.1%. This suggests today’s move is part of a longer pattern. On the winning side, the story is similar. Gartner (IT) and Zebra Technologies (ZBRA) were among the day’s top performers, and both also appear on the one-month winners list. Their respective one-month returns are +37.5% and +36.5%.
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 | COHR | Coherent | 33.0% | 75.4% |
| 2 | PLTR | Palantir Technologies | 31.7% | -8.5% |
| 3 | LITE | Lumentum | 30.3% | 130.5% |
| 4 | SNDK | SanDisk | 30.2% | 501.4% |
| 5 | ZBRA | Zebra Technologies | 29.7% | 51.9% |
| 6 | GLW | Corning | 26.9% | 83.2% |
| 7 | TER | Teradyne | 25.9% | 108.7% |
| 8 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 25.3% | 157.6% |
| 9 | MSFT | Microsoft | 25.3% | 2.4% |
| 10 | ORCL | Oracle | 21.5% | -24.5% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -21.6% | -38.1% |
| 2 | APTV | Aptiv | -19.7% | -37.3% |
| 3 | LII | Lennox International | -17.9% | -7.5% |
| 4 | GDDY | GoDaddy | -13.4% | -28.2% |
| 5 | CTVA | Corteva | -12.0% | 17.4% |
| 6 | EIX | Edison International | -11.4% | 22.4% |
| 7 | COIN | Coinbase Global | -10.2% | -33.3% |
| 8 | MAR | Marriott International | -10.0% | 11.7% |
| 9 | ARE | Alexandria Real Estate Equities | -9.5% | 2.8% |
| 10 | VRSK | Verisk Analytics | -9.2% | -13.4% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IT | Gartner | 37.5% | -26.4% |
| 2 | ZBRA | Zebra Technologies | 36.5% | 51.9% |
| 3 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 35.7% | -31.6% |
| 4 | PYPL | PayPal | 29.8% | 0.9% |
| 5 | HPQ | HP | 27.5% | 33.1% |
| 6 | MSFT | Microsoft | 27.4% | 2.4% |
| 7 | ACN | Accenture | 25.9% | -34.8% |
| 8 | BAX | Baxter International | 25.6% | 48.5% |
| 9 | GRMN | Garmin | 25.3% | 52.8% |
| 10 | WDAY | Workday | 24.1% | -20.3% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | -30.3% | 93.3% |
| 2 | APP | AppLovin | -22.8% | -37.7% |
| 3 | TSLA | Tesla | -22.0% | -27.2% |
| 4 | IBM | International Business Machines | -21.5% | -19.6% |
| 5 | LII | Lennox International | -21.3% | -7.5% |
| 6 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | -20.5% | -17.3% |
| 7 | APTV | Aptiv | -20.1% | -37.3% |
| 8 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -18.6% | -38.1% |
| 9 | SNDK | SanDisk | -18.2% | 501.4% |
| 10 | CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | -17.9% | -3.1% |
What does a disciplined investor do with this information?
A movers list is a map of market attention, not a set of instructions. A large daily move is a signal that perceptions of a company’s value or risk are changing rapidly. The tables above show that some of these moves are sudden, while others reflect an ongoing reappraisal. The disciplined follow-up is always the same: to investigate the business behind the ticker and understand the context of its performance.
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.
The Tape Rewards Attention. It Punishes Reaction
Big daily moves pull hard at both greed and fear, and acting on either, day after day, is how most portfolios end up trailing the index they were trying to beat.
The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio is built for the opposite reflex: about 30 quality businesses screened for the fundamentals that survive volatile stretches, held with rules instead of reactions. It has a track record of outpacing a benchmark that combines the three major indices – the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Read the movers daily; trade them rarely.