S&P 500 Movers | Winners: PTC, ILMN, CRL | Losers: CHRW, LEN, CMG
On Monday, October 5, the S&P 500 gained 0.7%, the Nasdaq-100 advanced 0.9% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked up 0.2%. Over the past week the S&P 500 is up 1.2%, and over the past month it is up 0.3%.
Gainers outnumbered decliners 316 to 185 within the S&P 500. At the extremes, PTC gained 33.5% and C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW) fell 10.8%.
Monday’s S&P 500 Winners
The 10 S&P 500 stocks with the highest returns on Monday:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PTC | PTC | 33.5% | 10.4% |
| 2 | ILMN | Illumina | 7.6% | 123.9% |
| 3 | CRL | Charles River Laboratories International | 7.1% | 55.8% |
| 4 | MRNA | Moderna | 6.9% | n/a |
| 5 | WDC | Western Digital | 6.3% | 156.6% |
| 6 | APP | AppLovin | 5.1% | -58.2% |
| 7 | GPN | Global Payments | 4.8% | 7.2% |
| 8 | NUE | Nucor | 4.6% | 55.4% |
| 9 | ADSK | Autodesk | 4.5% | -25.2% |
| 10 | STX | Seagate Technology | 4.5% | 223.2% |
Monday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 S&P 500 stocks with the lowest returns on Monday:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | -10.8% | -11.6% |
| 2 | LEN | Lennar | -6.7% | -26.4% |
| 3 | CMG | Chipotle Mexican Grill | -4.7% | -16.6% |
| 4 | BMY | Bristol-Myers Squibb | -3.8% | 13.9% |
| 5 | DOC | Healthpeak Properties | -3.3% | 23.0% |
| 6 | MRK | Merck | -3.3% | 35.3% |
| 7 | VTR | Ventas | -3.2% | 7.1% |
| 8 | ARE | Alexandria Real Estate Equities | -3.1% | -2.1% |
| 9 | GLW | Corning | -2.9% | 83.0% |
| 10 | INTC | Intel | -2.6% | 214.9% |
For A Few Names, Monday Extended A Monthly Trend
The 7.6% gain in Illumina (ILMN) on Monday was not a one-off: the stock is up 32.5% over the past month, and up 23.2% over the sessions before Monday.
Moderna (MRNA) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists. It rose 6.9% on Monday and is up 36.5% over the past month; excluding Monday, it had already gained 27.6% over the other sessions.
PTC is also on the one-month winners list (up 28.1%), but that move came almost entirely from Monday: over the rest of the month the stock was down 4.0%.
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 | PTC | PTC | 37.6% | 10.4% |
| 2 | LITE | Lumentum | 18.5% | 196.2% |
| 3 | COHR | Coherent | 18.1% | 80.8% |
| 4 | SNPS | Synopsys | 17.0% | 4.0% |
| 5 | CCL | Carnival Corporation | 15.4% | -15.0% |
| 6 | ON | ON Semiconductor | 13.6% | 58.7% |
| 7 | RCL | Royal Caribbean | 13.4% | 0.2% |
| 8 | CIEN | Ciena | 13.2% | 66.6% |
| 9 | ACN | Accenture | 11.8% | -25.4% |
| 10 | AMAT | Applied Materials | 11.4% | 111.8% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -18.0% | -59.2% |
| 2 | LEN | Lennar | -9.3% | -26.4% |
| 3 | INCY | Incyte | -8.6% | 15.6% |
| 4 | APP | AppLovin | -8.5% | -58.2% |
| 5 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | -7.4% | -55.2% |
| 6 | KHC | Kraft Heinz | -7.3% | -5.3% |
| 7 | JNJ | Johnson & Johnson | -7.0% | 24.2% |
| 8 | BMY | Bristol-Myers Squibb | -7.0% | 13.9% |
| 9 | NKE | Nike | -6.7% | -45.3% |
| 10 | DOC | Healthpeak Properties | -6.3% | 23.0% |
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 | P | Everpure | 46.6% | n/a |
| 2 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 38.5% | 195.0% |
| 3 | MRNA | Moderna | 36.5% | n/a |
| 4 | ILMN | Illumina | 32.5% | 123.9% |
| 5 | TER | Teradyne | 31.3% | 129.9% |
| 6 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 29.9% | 219.7% |
| 7 | LITE | Lumentum | 28.8% | 196.2% |
| 8 | DDOG | Datadog | 28.7% | 103.3% |
| 9 | PTC | PTC | 28.1% | 10.4% |
| 10 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 26.8% | 132.7% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -38.4% | -59.2% |
| 2 | GEN | Gen Digital | -28.9% | -16.8% |
| 3 | CHTR | Charter Communications | -28.8% | -48.4% |
| 4 | MGM | MGM Resorts International | -26.6% | -17.3% |
| 5 | EFX | Equifax | -24.6% | -33.7% |
| 6 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | -23.5% | -55.2% |
| 7 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -23.5% | -27.5% |
| 8 | ALB | Albemarle | -20.8% | -25.6% |
| 9 | PAYX | Paychex | -20.2% | -8.0% |
| 10 | FIS | Fidelity National Information Services | -19.7% | -47.9% |
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