S&P 500 Movers | Winners: SNDK, BE, MU | Losers: ABNB, LULU, MCD
The S&P 500 jumped 1.3% on Wednesday, November 11, while the Nasdaq-100 rallied 2.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.5%. Over the past week the S&P 500 is down 0.9%, and over the past month it is down 2.4%.
Gainers outnumbered decliners 332 to 168 within the S&P 500. The day’s best return belonged to SanDisk (SNDK) (+13.7%) and the worst to Airbnb (ABNB) (-3.1%).
Wednesday’s S&P 500 Winners
The 10 S&P 500 stocks with the highest returns on Wednesday:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SNDK | SanDisk | 13.7% | 311.9% |
| 2 | BE | Bloom Energy | 13.0% | 141.1% |
| 3 | MU | Micron Technology | 11.9% | 184.5% |
| 4 | DELL | Dell Technologies | 11.8% | 200.0% |
| 5 | LITE | Lumentum | 10.7% | 75.8% |
| 6 | STX | Seagate Technology | 10.0% | 101.0% |
| 7 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | 9.5% | 4.0% |
| 8 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 9.3% | 99.0% |
| 9 | COHR | Coherent | 9.2% | 27.1% |
| 10 | MPWR | Monolithic Power Systems | 8.9% | 64.0% |
Wednesday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 S&P 500 stocks with the lowest returns on Wednesday:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABNB | Airbnb | -3.1% | 33.5% |
| 2 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | -2.6% | -48.3% |
| 3 | MCD | McDonald’s | -2.6% | -8.3% |
| 4 | LDOS | Leidos | -2.4% | -25.1% |
| 5 | NVR | NVR | -2.3% | -19.2% |
| 6 | BF-B | Brown-Forman | -2.3% | 18.6% |
| 7 | MSFT | Microsoft | -2.3% | 8.4% |
| 8 | WYNN | Wynn Resorts | -2.2% | -28.5% |
| 9 | TSCO | Tractor Supply | -2.0% | -25.1% |
| 10 | META | Meta Platforms | -2.0% | -4.5% |
Were Wednesday’s Biggest Movers Already On A Run?
None of the names on the one-day lists shows up on the same side of the one-month lists: Wednesday’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 | 48.9% | -39.9% |
| 2 | COHR | Coherent | 20.2% | 27.1% |
| 3 | MPWR | Monolithic Power Systems | 17.3% | 64.0% |
| 4 | NRG | NRG Energy | 17.1% | -37.9% |
| 5 | CHTR | Charter Communications | 13.4% | -34.7% |
| 6 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 13.1% | 158.2% |
| 7 | CVS | CVS Health | 12.0% | 16.3% |
| 8 | CEG | Constellation Energy | 11.8% | -21.9% |
| 9 | VST | Vistra | 10.9% | -16.9% |
| 10 | TTWO | Take-Two Interactive Software | 10.7% | -9.7% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -25.6% | -44.5% |
| 2 | EXPE | Expedia | -17.8% | -7.8% |
| 3 | MCHP | Microchip Technology | -17.5% | -0.8% |
| 4 | NVDA | NVIDIA | -13.2% | -6.6% |
| 5 | NWSA | News Corp | -12.2% | 3.5% |
| 6 | NWS | News | -10.4% | 1.7% |
| 7 | DASH | DoorDash | -10.2% | -21.3% |
| 8 | COIN | Coinbase Global | -10.1% | -39.7% |
| 9 | DXCM | DexCom | -9.2% | 21.1% |
| 10 | PODD | Insulet | -9.1% | -47.2% |
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 | 48.7% | -39.9% |
| 2 | FISV | Fiserv | 36.9% | -4.9% |
| 3 | IDXX | IDEXX Laboratories | 35.0% | 3.9% |
| 4 | PNR | Pentair | 31.5% | -32.4% |
| 5 | ROP | Roper Technologies | 29.7% | 8.4% |
| 6 | HAS | Hasbro | 29.3% | 54.7% |
| 7 | GEN | Gen Digital | 28.7% | 14.4% |
| 8 | CLX | Clorox | 28.4% | 11.4% |
| 9 | SWK | Stanley Black & Decker | 27.5% | 60.4% |
| 10 | CHTR | Charter Communications | 27.5% | -34.7% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INTC | Intel | -39.2% | 69.4% |
| 2 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -37.2% | 99.0% |
| 3 | DDOG | Datadog | -34.9% | 35.6% |
| 4 | DELL | Dell Technologies | -34.6% | 200.0% |
| 5 | LITE | Lumentum | -34.4% | 75.8% |
| 6 | SNDK | SanDisk | -34.0% | 311.9% |
| 7 | FTNT | Fortinet | -32.8% | 61.3% |
| 8 | FFIV | F5 | -32.8% | 25.4% |
| 9 | P | Everpure | -32.2% | n/a |
| 10 | RDDT | -32.0% | -54.0% |
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.