S&P 500 Movers | Winners: CCL, BE, RCL | Losers: FICO, STLD, LULU
A quiet index surface concealed a day of sharp divergence and persistent trends at the stock level.
The S&P 500 returned -0.2% while the Nasdaq-100 returned +0.2%, a split decision that hid dramatic moves in individual stocks. The day’s most extreme change belonged to Fair Isaac (FICO), which fell 26.5%, a move more than double the size of the +13.4% gain for the top performer, Carnival Corporation (CCL). This raises a key question: are these sudden shocks, or the continuation of existing trends? The day’s largest S&P 500 moves follow.
Tuesday’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 | CCL | Carnival Corporation | 13.4% | -16.5% |
| 2 | BE | Bloom Energy | 10.8% | 235.2% |
| 3 | RCL | Royal Caribbean | 7.5% | -5.0% |
| 4 | LITE | Lumentum | 5.7% | 164.1% |
| 5 | CVNA | Carvana | 5.2% | -24.6% |
| 6 | AMAT | Applied Materials | 5.2% | 99.9% |
| 7 | DASH | DoorDash | 4.9% | -17.4% |
| 8 | GLW | Corning | 4.7% | 82.2% |
| 9 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 4.5% | 210.3% |
| 10 | EIX | Edison International | 4.1% | -7.3% |
Tuesday’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 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -26.5% | -63.5% |
| 2 | STLD | Steel Dynamics | -3.9% | 31.3% |
| 3 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | -3.7% | -53.4% |
| 4 | NUE | Nucor | -3.6% | 45.3% |
| 5 | EFX | Equifax | -3.4% | -34.5% |
| 6 | SLB | SLB | -3.1% | 32.1% |
| 7 | ITW | Illinois Tool Works | -3.1% | 9.1% |
| 8 | FDS | FactSet Research Systems | -2.9% | -9.2% |
| 9 | WYNN | Wynn Resorts | -2.8% | -34.5% |
| 10 | PSKY | Paramount Skydance | -2.8% | -25.4% |
Some of Tuesday’s sharpest moves have been building for weeks.
The day’s biggest loser, Fair Isaac (FICO), is not a new story of weakness. While the stock returned -26.5% Tuesday, its one-month return is -46.4%. Its decline has been persistent; excluding Tuesday’s session, the stock still lost 27.1% over the prior weeks. The same pattern appears on the upside. Bloom Energy (BE) is on both the daily and monthly winners lists, with a one-month return of +38.2%, a gain extending beyond Tuesday’s move, as it still gained +24.7% over the other sessions.
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 | P | Everpure | 17.3% | n/a |
| 2 | CCL | Carnival Corporation | 12.7% | -16.5% |
| 3 | MRNA | Moderna | 11.4% | 589.9% |
| 4 | RCL | Royal Caribbean | 11.0% | -5.0% |
| 5 | ILMN | Illumina | 9.9% | 107.4% |
| 6 | DDOG | Datadog | 8.5% | 97.5% |
| 7 | NTAP | NetApp | 8.4% | 97.9% |
| 8 | AMAT | Applied Materials | 8.4% | 99.9% |
| 9 | CDNS | Cadence Design Systems | 7.0% | 3.7% |
| 10 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 6.8% | 24.8% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -32.4% | -63.5% |
| 2 | GEN | Gen Digital | -23.6% | -22.2% |
| 3 | MGM | MGM Resorts International | -19.0% | -13.6% |
| 4 | PAYX | Paychex | -13.3% | -8.5% |
| 5 | CDW | CDW | -12.0% | -3.3% |
| 6 | FSLR | First Solar | -11.9% | -32.3% |
| 7 | EFX | Equifax | -11.9% | -34.5% |
| 8 | ARE | Alexandria Real Estate Equities | -11.3% | 0.4% |
| 9 | MOS | Mosaic | -9.3% | -4.4% |
| 10 | WY | Weyerhaeuser | -9.2% | -15.3% |
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 | 47.4% | 589.9% |
| 2 | P | Everpure | 39.2% | n/a |
| 3 | BE | Bloom Energy | 38.2% | 235.2% |
| 4 | SWKS | Skyworks Solutions | 33.8% | 41.7% |
| 5 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 30.5% | 183.7% |
| 6 | INTC | Intel | 29.6% | 214.2% |
| 7 | META | Meta Platforms | 27.9% | 12.2% |
| 8 | ILMN | Illumina | 26.2% | 107.4% |
| 9 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 21.5% | 210.3% |
| 10 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 20.3% | 124.2% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -46.4% | -63.5% |
| 2 | GEN | Gen Digital | -32.8% | -22.2% |
| 3 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -30.2% | -26.1% |
| 4 | CHTR | Charter Communications | -28.0% | -47.0% |
| 5 | EFX | Equifax | -27.3% | -34.5% |
| 6 | PCG | PG&E | -26.9% | -24.1% |
| 7 | MGM | MGM Resorts International | -25.4% | -13.6% |
| 8 | EIX | Edison International | -23.7% | -7.3% |
| 9 | AON | AON | -22.4% | -21.3% |
| 10 | ADSK | Autodesk | -22.1% | -31.4% |
A large price change is the start of a question, not the answer.
The tables of major movers shown earlier are a map of market attention. A large percentage change, positive or negative, is first and foremost information about risk and volatility. It is never an instruction to buy or sell. For a disciplined investor, a name appearing on these lists is a prompt for research. The essential follow-up is to check the business behind the stock and understand the context for its recent 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.
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.