S&P 500 Movers | Winners: COHR, MPWR, AMD | Losers: FSLR, NVDA, TTWO
On Monday, November 9, the S&P 500 jumped 2.3%, the Nasdaq-100 climbed 3.4% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 2.2%. The S&P 500 is now up 0.1% over five trading days and down 3.3% over the past month.
Gainers outnumbered decliners 421 to 80 within the S&P 500. The day’s best return belonged to Coherent (COHR) (+16.8%) and the worst to First Solar (FSLR) (-4.7%).
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 | COHR | Coherent | 16.8% | 22.0% |
| 2 | MPWR | Monolithic Power Systems | 16.6% | 53.9% |
| 3 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 13.3% | 137.5% |
| 4 | TER | Teradyne | 12.7% | 27.2% |
| 5 | FLEX | FLEX | 12.0% | 29.4% |
| 6 | BE | Bloom Energy | 11.9% | 123.1% |
| 7 | AMAT | Applied Materials | 11.4% | 44.7% |
| 8 | FERG | Ferguson Enterprises | 11.2% | 18.6% |
| 9 | LITE | Lumentum | 10.7% | 61.7% |
| 10 | CIEN | Ciena | 10.7% | 15.2% |
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 | FSLR | First Solar | -4.7% | -26.7% |
| 2 | NVDA | NVIDIA | -4.3% | -4.0% |
| 3 | TTWO | Take-Two Interactive Software | -3.5% | -19.0% |
| 4 | AKAM | Akamai Technologies | -3.4% | -8.0% |
| 5 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -3.1% | -46.6% |
| 6 | DVA | DaVita | -3.0% | 63.3% |
| 7 | HSY | Hershey | -2.6% | -2.5% |
| 8 | HUM | Humana | -2.4% | 66.8% |
| 9 | PM | Philip Morris International | -2.4% | 23.5% |
| 10 | ACN | Accenture | -2.4% | -1.9% |
Monday’s Extremes Were Mostly Fresh Moves
None of the names on the one-day lists shows up on the same side of the one-month lists: Monday’s extremes were new moves, not the continuation of a run.
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 | APP | AppLovin | 79.2% | -39.2% |
| 2 | FISV | Fiserv | 22.3% | -5.4% |
| 3 | MRNA | Moderna | 21.8% | n/a |
| 4 | MOS | Mosaic | 19.7% | -2.9% |
| 5 | CLX | Clorox | 17.4% | 10.0% |
| 6 | XYZ | Block | 14.9% | 36.1% |
| 7 | NEM | Newmont | 14.7% | 26.2% |
| 8 | ANET | Arista Networks | 13.4% | 42.1% |
| 9 | ALGN | Align Technology | 13.1% | 11.6% |
| 10 | TPR | Tapestry | 12.7% | 7.5% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FIS | Fidelity National Information Services | -29.4% | -56.0% |
| 2 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -28.7% | -46.6% |
| 3 | MCHP | Microchip Technology | -19.2% | -1.8% |
| 4 | IT | Gartner | -18.8% | -24.3% |
| 5 | SNDK | SanDisk | -17.5% | 273.5% |
| 6 | TRMB | Trimble | -17.0% | -30.2% |
| 7 | DDOG | Datadog | -16.9% | 32.1% |
| 8 | TPL | Texas Pacific Land | -15.7% | -2.7% |
| 9 | STX | Seagate Technology | -14.8% | 84.4% |
| 10 | WDC | Western Digital | -14.4% | 68.4% |
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 | APP | AppLovin | 48.0% | -39.2% |
| 2 | FISV | Fiserv | 39.2% | -5.4% |
| 3 | IDXX | IDEXX Laboratories | 36.4% | 4.5% |
| 4 | PNR | Pentair | 34.4% | -31.6% |
| 5 | SWK | Stanley Black & Decker | 33.3% | 63.9% |
| 6 | HAS | Hasbro | 29.6% | 50.8% |
| 7 | ROP | Roper Technologies | 29.5% | 7.0% |
| 8 | EFX | Equifax | 29.2% | -12.4% |
| 9 | GEN | Gen Digital | 28.2% | 11.3% |
| 10 | GEHC | GE HealthCare Technologies | 27.9% | 2.7% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LITE | Lumentum | -46.0% | 61.7% |
| 2 | SNDK | SanDisk | -44.0% | 273.5% |
| 3 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -43.8% | 82.2% |
| 4 | INTC | Intel | -43.3% | 60.9% |
| 5 | DELL | Dell Technologies | -40.8% | 178.0% |
| 6 | CIEN | Ciena | -40.1% | 15.2% |
| 7 | TER | Teradyne | -38.9% | 27.2% |
| 8 | DDOG | Datadog | -38.8% | 32.1% |
| 9 | FTNT | Fortinet | -37.1% | 54.2% |
| 10 | RDDT | -37.0% | -56.2% |
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.