S&P 500 Movers | Winners: PSKY, CRWD, P | Losers: BE, DASH, QCOM
A sharp daily move can feel like the whole story, but a closer look at the extremes reveals a different pattern.
The S&P 500 returned -0.8% on a day where the biggest moves were sharp and negative. Bloom Energy (BE) was the weakest stock in the index, returning -8.9% in a single session. This raises a critical question for any investor watching the tape: how much of Monday’s action is just noise, and how much is part of a real trend?
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 | PSKY | Paramount Skydance | 3.2% | -23.3% |
| 2 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 2.8% | 121.2% |
| 3 | P | Everpure | 2.7% | n/a |
| 4 | VTRS | Viatris | 2.5% | 50.2% |
| 5 | ISRG | Intuitive Surgical | 2.4% | -26.8% |
| 6 | MTD | Mettler-Toledo International | 2.2% | 10.8% |
| 7 | WAT | Waters | 2.2% | 16.6% |
| 8 | NWSA | News | 2.1% | 12.3% |
| 9 | ODFL | Old Dominion Freight Line | 2.0% | 13.3% |
| 10 | FERG | Ferguson Enterprises | 2.0% | 3.7% |
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 | BE | Bloom Energy | -8.9% | 202.5% |
| 2 | DASH | DoorDash | -7.7% | -21.2% |
| 3 | QCOM | Qualcomm | -7.2% | 11.3% |
| 4 | CVNA | Carvana | -7.1% | -28.4% |
| 5 | BA | Boeing | -6.9% | -15.1% |
| 6 | INTC | Intel | -5.7% | 214.4% |
| 7 | META | Meta Platforms | -4.8% | 8.7% |
| 8 | REGN | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | -4.5% | -2.2% |
| 9 | COHR | Coherent | -4.5% | 53.0% |
| 10 | RDDT | -4.5% | -37.8% |
Is Monday’s action just noise, or part of a trend?
Sometimes a daily move is an extension of a longer pattern. Everpure (P) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists. Its one-month return is +30.4%, and even excluding Monday’s session it still gained +27.0% over the other sessions. The same persistence appears on the downside. DoorDash (DASH) is on both the one-day and one-month losers lists, with a one-month return of -23.1%. Excluding Monday, it still lost 16.6% over the prior weeks.
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 | MRNA | Moderna | 14.1% | 569.0% |
| 2 | ILMN | Illumina | 13.9% | 107.3% |
| 3 | P | Everpure | 13.8% | n/a |
| 4 | CDNS | Cadence Design Systems | 10.8% | 4.5% |
| 5 | DDOG | Datadog | 9.7% | 97.6% |
| 6 | A | Agilent Technologies | 8.2% | 29.5% |
| 7 | MTD | Mettler-Toledo International | 8.0% | 10.8% |
| 8 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 7.1% | 25.4% |
| 9 | VTRS | Viatris | 6.8% | 50.2% |
| 10 | AMGN | Amgen | 6.4% | 30.4% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GEN | Gen Digital | -28.5% | -22.2% |
| 2 | MGM | MGM Resorts International | -17.7% | -12.7% |
| 3 | PAYX | Paychex | -13.7% | -8.5% |
| 4 | FSLR | First Solar | -13.4% | -33.8% |
| 5 | COHR | Coherent | -12.2% | 53.0% |
| 6 | CDW | CDW | -11.0% | -2.8% |
| 7 | GDDY | GoDaddy | -10.6% | -24.5% |
| 8 | CVNA | Carvana | -10.0% | -28.4% |
| 9 | HONA | Honeywell Aerospace | -9.9% | n/a |
| 10 | RDDT | -9.9% | -37.8% |
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 | MRNA | Moderna | 38.2% | 569.0% |
| 2 | P | Everpure | 30.4% | n/a |
| 3 | SWKS | Skyworks Solutions | 30.0% | 41.0% |
| 4 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 27.5% | 183.8% |
| 5 | INTC | Intel | 26.0% | 214.4% |
| 6 | META | Meta Platforms | 25.4% | 8.7% |
| 7 | BE | Bloom Energy | 20.7% | 202.5% |
| 8 | ILMN | Illumina | 19.4% | 107.3% |
| 9 | RVTY | Revvity | 16.4% | 56.4% |
| 10 | HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 15.4% | 163.8% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PCG | PG&E | -33.4% | -25.2% |
| 2 | GEN | Gen Digital | -31.6% | -22.2% |
| 3 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -30.5% | -25.2% |
| 4 | EIX | Edison International | -30.1% | -10.9% |
| 5 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -27.3% | -50.3% |
| 6 | MGM | MGM Resorts International | -25.9% | -12.7% |
| 7 | CHTR | Charter Communications | -24.9% | -46.6% |
| 8 | ADSK | Autodesk | -23.4% | -30.0% |
| 9 | EFX | Equifax | -23.2% | -32.2% |
| 10 | DASH | DoorDash | -23.1% | -21.2% |
So how should I use these lists?
A movers list is a map of market attention, not a set of instructions. The tables earlier show the largest percentage moves over a day, a week, and a month. A stock appearing on them is a signal that something has focused investor interest, for better or worse. The disciplined response is not to chase the performance, but to check the business. A large price change is the beginning of a question, not the end of one.
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.
Today’s Winner Is Tomorrow’s Loser Often Enough
The movers list is the most honest picture of single-stock risk the market prints each day: the same volatility that makes the winners column also fills the losers column, and no one reliably knows which side a stock lands on next.
That is the case for owning a disciplined basket instead of chasing the tape. The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio holds roughly 30 businesses selected for consistent cash generation, strong margins, and resilient balance sheets, sized and rebalanced with 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. Watch the movers for information; let the portfolio do the compounding.