Market Movers | Winners: EMAT, TITN, CRCL | Losers: EIX, PCG, TECX
Beneath a quiet surface for the major indices, a handful of stocks saw extreme moves in both directions.
Edison International (EIX) was the weakest stock in the market today, returning -23.1%. On the other side of the ledger, Evolution Metals & Technologies (EMAT) returned +18.2%. This volatility in single names occurred against a backdrop of near-total calm, with the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the Nasdaq-100 all returning +0.0%.
The central question on a day like this is what drives such extreme divergence. While the broad market stood still, a handful of companies experienced moves that can define a year for a portfolio. The day’s biggest winners and losers are detailed below.
Monday’s Market Winners
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EMAT | Evolution Metals & Technologies | 18.2% | n/a |
| 2 | TITN | Titan Machinery | 15.2% | 36.8% |
| 3 | CRCL | Circle Internet | 9.7% | 20.5% |
| 4 | QMCO | Quantum | 9.3% | 277.2% |
| 5 | FWDI | Forward Industries | 7.6% | -4.1% |
| 6 | SOC | Sable Offshore | 7.6% | -46.5% |
| 7 | RBLX | Roblox | 7.2% | -49.0% |
| 8 | XE | X-Energy | 7.1% | n/a |
| 9 | METC | Ramaco Resources | 7.1% | -20.9% |
| 10 | CAR | Avis Budget | 6.8% | 14.9% |
Monday’s Market Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EIX | Edison International | -23.1% | -6.5% |
| 2 | PCG | PG&E | -20.1% | -16.9% |
| 3 | TECX | Tectonic Therapeutic | -15.9% | 43.5% |
| 4 | TRON | TRON Inc | -15.9% | 41.1% |
| 5 | HLF | Herbalife | -11.6% | -14.7% |
| 6 | LPTH | LightPath Technologies | -10.4% | -6.9% |
| 7 | LIND | Lindblad Expeditions | -10.2% | 84.2% |
| 8 | GLAS | Glass House Brands | -9.6% | 0.9% |
| 9 | AON | AON PLC | -9.5% | -8.2% |
| 10 | FBYD | Falcons Beyond Global | -9.4% | -40.4% |
Is a big daily move ever more than a one-day story?
Sometimes a name shows persistence across time horizons. Quantum (QMCO) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists, showing a pattern of sustained interest. The stock’s one-month return is +128.7%. The gain extends beyond a single session; excluding today, the stock still gained +109.2% over the other sessions.
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 | CAPR | Capricor Therapeutics | 45.7% | -65.7% |
| 2 | OKTA | OKTA Inc | 32.1% | 100.1% |
| 3 | MEI | Methode Electronics | 29.9% | 179.3% |
| 4 | ANF | Abercrombie & Fitch | 27.3% | 13.7% |
| 5 | CRM | Salesforce | 23.2% | -2.3% |
| 6 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 21.1% | 97.1% |
| 7 | INBX | Inhibrx Biosciences | 20.7% | 60.4% |
| 8 | RGNX | Regenxbio | 17.9% | -34.0% |
| 9 | EBS | Emergent BioSolutions | 17.8% | -50.6% |
| 10 | ESTC | Elastic | 17.2% | 29.3% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EIX | Edison International | -27.0% | -6.5% |
| 2 | PCG | PG&E | -26.7% | -16.9% |
| 3 | DKS | Dick’s Sporting Goods | -24.7% | -30.9% |
| 4 | LPTH | LightPath Technologies | -24.0% | -6.9% |
| 5 | DY | Dycom Industries | -23.6% | -13.8% |
| 6 | BBW | Build-A-Bear Workshop | -22.1% | -50.0% |
| 7 | BURL | Burlington Stores | -21.4% | -10.1% |
| 8 | KRMN | Karman | -19.3% | -43.4% |
| 9 | TECX | Tectonic Therapeutic | -17.9% | 43.5% |
| 10 | AEHR | Aehr Test Systems | -17.8% | 292.6% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CYPH | Cypherpunk Technologies | 209.0% | 57.3% |
| 2 | ARCT | Arcturus Therapeutics | 156.2% | 140.8% |
| 3 | MRNA | Moderna | 156.0% | 375.9% |
| 4 | RCEL | AVITA Medical | 129.5% | 192.8% |
| 5 | QMCO | Quantum | 128.7% | 277.2% |
| 6 | OABI | OmniAb | 121.2% | 136.8% |
| 7 | ABCL | AbCellera Biologics | 101.1% | 235.7% |
| 8 | IOVA | Iovance Biotherapeutics | 100.7% | 199.3% |
| 9 | HTFL | HeartFlow | 99.7% | 72.9% |
| 10 | PURR | Hyperliquid Strategies | 97.3% | 244.1% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EYPT | EyePoint | -63.3% | -75.4% |
| 2 | TDUP | ThredUp | -53.5% | -57.9% |
| 3 | AHCO | AdaptHealth | -48.2% | -43.9% |
| 4 | UTI | Universal Technical Institute | -46.2% | -19.1% |
| 5 | PLTK | Playtika | -43.1% | -42.5% |
| 6 | ARKO | Arko Corp. | -42.6% | 2.0% |
| 7 | LMB | Limbach | -42.5% | -47.1% |
| 8 | CDNL | Cardinal Infrastructure | -40.2% | 52.9% |
| 9 | LINC | Lincoln Educational Services | -39.8% | 4.2% |
| 10 | GOGO | Gogo Inc. | -39.7% | -45.9% |
A movers list is a map of attention, not a set of instructions.
The tables of weekly and monthly performance earlier in this report provide crucial context. A stock’s appearance on any of these lists is first and foremost information about where market attention is focused. A sudden, large move signals a change in how an asset is being priced and perceived.
The disciplined response is not to chase a rising stock or sell a falling one based on the move alone. It is to ask what has changed, and to investigate the fundamentals of the business behind the ticker. These lists are a starting point for research, not a conclusion.
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.
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.