Market Movers | Winners: WWR, RCEL, VATE | Losers: CVRX, SEZL, ONFO
A day of sharp gains and steeper losses raises questions about what separates a momentary spike from a sustained trend.
The S&P 500 gained +0.6% while the Dow added +0.3% and the Nasdaq-100 rose +1.2%. Amid that broad advance, Westwater Resources (WWR) stood apart with a single-day return of +87.8%. The central question for any such outlier is what, if anything, has fundamentally changed.
The day’s full list of winners and losers shows the scale of these moves.
Friday’s Market Winners
- 5 Green Days In A Row: Newmont Stock Is Up 21%
- Coherent Stock Climbs 71% On A 7-Day Winning Streak
- Where The Buying Ran Strongest: 21 S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Highs
- 59 Small Cap Stocks Just Made New 52-Week Highs
- S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Friday’s Full List
- Where The Buying Ran Strongest: 26 Mid Cap Stocks At 52-Week Highs
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WWR | Westwater Resources | 87.8% | 2.3% |
| 2 | RCEL | AVITA Medical | 63.6% | 125.2% |
| 3 | VATE | Innovate | 63.4% | 167.9% |
| 4 | HCWC | Healthy Choice Wellness | 50.0% | 19.5% |
| 5 | VIVS | VivoSim Labs | 41.9% | -74.1% |
| 6 | QNST | QuinStreet | 38.5% | 46.7% |
| 7 | OABI | OmniAb | 37.5% | 66.5% |
| 8 | SENS | Senseonics | 36.3% | 27.2% |
| 9 | EXFY | Expensify | 35.9% | 78.1% |
| 10 | TEAM | Atlassian | 35.3% | -8.1% |
Friday’s Market Losers
And the 7 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CVRX | CVRx | -59.8% | -66.3% |
| 2 | SEZL | Sezzle | -33.9% | 85.9% |
| 3 | ONFO | Onfolio | -28.3% | -93.7% |
| 4 | XHLD | TEN | -28.1% | 71.2% |
| 5 | BIVI | BioVie | -26.0% | -13.9% |
| 6 | LASR | nLight | -25.6% | 49.7% |
| 7 | BAER | Bridger Aerospace | -25.4% | -31.1% |
Some declines are not one-day events.
The presence of a name on multiple lists signals a persistent trend rather than daily noise. Onfolio (ONFO) appears on both the one-day and one-month losers lists. Its one-month return is -82.1%, and the source data notes that excluding today it still lost 75.0% over the other sessions. This shows its weakness has been building for weeks.
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 | HYFM | Hydrofarm | 196.3% | 6.0% |
| 2 | AMIX | Autonomix Medical | 191.9% | -13.1% |
| 3 | CLRO | ClearOne | 149.3% | 99.8% |
| 4 | CELZ | Creative Medical Technology | 113.9% | -27.6% |
| 5 | ENSC | Ensysce Biosciences | 105.6% | -43.5% |
| 6 | XHLD | TEN | 102.0% | 71.2% |
| 7 | OESX | Orion Energy Systems | 95.0% | 28.1% |
| 8 | WWR | Westwater Resources | 86.0% | 2.3% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GYGY | Game Your Game | -66.4% | n/a |
| 2 | CVRX | CVRx | -53.8% | -66.3% |
| 3 | AHCO | AdaptHealth | -47.3% | -42.9% |
| 4 | ONFO | Onfolio | -45.6% | -93.7% |
| 5 | TDUP | ThredUp | -44.5% | -49.8% |
| 6 | SUJA | Suja Life | -40.9% | n/a |
| 7 | LVWR | LiveWire | -40.3% | -75.6% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FWAC | Futurewave Acquisition | 522.0% | 287.8% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YYAI | Airwa | -98.9% | -99.8% |
| 2 | MBRX | Moleculin Biotech | -83.2% | -87.6% |
| 3 | LESL | Leslies | -82.2% | -29.1% |
| 4 | ONFO | Onfolio | -82.1% | -93.7% |
| 5 | CAPR | Capricor Therapeutics | -81.8% | -85.8% |
| 6 | VIVK | Vivakor | -79.7% | -96.8% |
A movers list is a starting point, not a finish line.
The tables above are a map of market attention and volatility, not a set of instructions. A large price change is an alert to do more work, not a reason to act. For example, the day’s biggest loser, CVRx (CVRX), has a market value of about $63.4 million, and its revenue grew 12.0% over the last twelve months. That context is the necessary next step for any disciplined investor.
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.
Volatility Is The Cost Of Owning Stocks. Concentration Makes It A Bill
Every name on these lists moved this much in a single day. A diversified holder reads that as noise; a concentrated holder feels it as real money. The difference is not the stock, it is the portfolio around it.
Building that portfolio is what the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio does: roughly 30 businesses with the cash generation and balance-sheet strength to absorb bad days, selected and rebalanced by rules. 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. Let the movers list remind you why diversification exists.