S&P 500 Movers | Winners: AKAM, MRNA, INTC | Losers: MPC, VLO, UPS
A strong day for the broad market saw some extreme moves, but a closer look reveals that some of these stories are not new.
The S&P 500 gained +1.5% on Monday, but the day’s extremes were far wider. Akamai Technologies (AKAM) led the index with a +12.3% return.
This raises a key question for any daily list of market leaders and laggards: are these one-day reactions, or are they continuations of an existing trend? The names below show both kinds of moves.
Monday’s S&P 500 Winners
The 10 S&P 500 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AKAM | Akamai Technologies | 12.3% | 34.6% |
| 2 | MRNA | Moderna | 12.3% | 486.4% |
| 3 | INTC | Intel | 12.1% | 230.0% |
| 4 | WBD | Warner Bros. Discovery | 10.8% | 6.9% |
| 5 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 9.9% | 187.4% |
| 6 | QCOM | Qualcomm | 9.3% | 15.3% |
| 7 | P | Everpure | 9.1% | n/a |
| 8 | GDDY | GoDaddy | 7.5% | -15.6% |
| 9 | APP | AppLovin | 7.2% | -51.0% |
| 10 | DDOG | Datadog | 6.6% | 80.2% |
Monday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 S&P 500 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | -5.3% | 150.3% |
| 2 | VLO | Valero Energy | -4.8% | 145.2% |
| 3 | UPS | United Parcel Service | -4.4% | 0.1% |
| 4 | HPQ | HP | -4.2% | 53.6% |
| 5 | PSX | Phillips 66 | -4.2% | 107.1% |
| 6 | CHTR | Charter Communications | -3.8% | -40.9% |
| 7 | UNP | Union Pacific | -3.5% | 18.3% |
| 8 | CF | CF Industries | -3.5% | 61.7% |
| 9 | COP | ConocoPhillips | -3.3% | 39.2% |
| 10 | XOM | ExxonMobil | -3.2% | 34.2% |
Some of today’s largest moves have been building for weeks.
Intel (INTC) returned +12.1% today, but its strength is not a one-day event. Its one-month return is +32.2%, and it gained +17.9% over the other sessions in that period. Moderna (MRNA) shows a similar pattern. It returned +12.3% today, bringing its one-month gain to +29.7% after already gaining +15.5% over the rest of the past month. On the downside, Charter Communications (CHTR) saw its one-month loss widen to -16.5% after losing 13.3% even before today’s session.
Movers Over The Last Week
Widening the window to five trading days, these are the strongest and weakest names in the S&P 500:
Winners
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INTC | Intel | 25.3% | 230.0% |
| 2 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 24.7% | 187.4% |
| 3 | P | Everpure | 21.2% | n/a |
| 4 | COHR | Coherent | 20.6% | 74.2% |
| 5 | MRNA | Moderna | 17.9% | 486.4% |
| 6 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 17.6% | 203.3% |
| 7 | TER | Teradyne | 15.9% | 97.3% |
| 8 | GNRC | Generac | 15.8% | 50.3% |
| 9 | ILMN | Illumina | 14.7% | 82.1% |
| 10 | CIEN | Ciena | 14.5% | 56.5% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JBHT | JB Hunt Transport Services | -14.1% | 22.2% |
| 2 | CHTR | Charter Communications | -14.0% | -40.9% |
| 3 | CMG | Chipotle Mexican Grill | -10.5% | -10.4% |
| 4 | TMUS | T-Mobile US | -9.6% | -17.3% |
| 5 | FDXF | FedEx Freight | -9.1% | n/a |
| 6 | CPRT | Copart | -8.9% | -26.2% |
| 7 | FISV | Fiserv | -8.9% | -30.8% |
| 8 | CRM | Salesforce | -8.7% | -10.1% |
| 9 | NFLX | Netflix | -8.7% | -21.8% |
| 10 | PSKY | Paramount Skydance | -8.4% | -25.0% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days, the strongest and weakest names in the S&P 500:
Winners
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BE | Bloom Energy | 34.8% | 214.1% |
| 2 | DELL | Dell Technologies | 32.3% | 361.2% |
| 3 | INTC | Intel | 32.2% | 230.0% |
| 4 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 31.1% | 187.4% |
| 5 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 31.0% | 112.8% |
| 6 | SWKS | Skyworks Solutions | 30.6% | 42.9% |
| 7 | MRNA | Moderna | 29.7% | 486.4% |
| 8 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 29.7% | 9.0% |
| 9 | META | Meta Platforms | 22.0% | 1.0% |
| 10 | QCOM | Qualcomm | 21.5% | 15.3% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PCG | PG&E | -28.0% | -19.0% |
| 2 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -26.4% | -20.4% |
| 3 | EIX | Edison International | -26.4% | -4.9% |
| 4 | CLX | Clorox | -20.0% | -12.8% |
| 5 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -19.6% | -45.3% |
| 6 | BKNG | Booking | -19.5% | -20.8% |
| 7 | AON | AON | -17.4% | -17.0% |
| 8 | EFX | Equifax | -17.3% | -26.2% |
| 9 | HWM | Howmet Aerospace | -16.9% | 11.1% |
| 10 | CHTR | Charter Communications | -16.5% | -40.9% |
What does a big daily move actually tell you?
The tables earlier in this report show the largest percentage moves, which are always signals of heightened attention and risk. They are never an instruction. A disciplined reader uses a large price change as a prompt to check the business fundamentals behind the stock.
For example, the day’s biggest winner, Akamai Technologies, trades at 41.3 times trailing earnings. The day’s biggest loser, Marathon Petroleum, trades at 13.6 times trailing earnings. These are just starting points for the real work of understanding what you own.
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 made a move big enough to notice. 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 S&P 500, the S&P MidCap 400, and the Russell 2000. Let the movers list remind you why diversification exists.