S&P 500 Movers | Winners: META, WY, SBAC | Losers: MRNA, CRWD, DDOG
A calm market surface hid sharp moves in individual names, raising questions about persistence and noise.
Moderna (MRNA) ended the day down 10.8%, a sharp move against a quiet tape. The S&P 500 itself returned just +0.4%, with other major indexes also posting modest gains.
This raises a key question for the day’s data: where is the real action concentrated when the overall market is calm? The day’s biggest winners and losers below show the extremes.
Friday’s S&P 500 Winners
- S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Highs: Friday’s Full List
- Where The Buying Ran Strongest: 29 Small Cap Stocks At 52-Week Highs
- Where The Selling Ran Deepest: 1 S&P 500 Stock At 52-Week Lows
- 17 Mid Cap Stocks Hit 52-Week Highs On Friday
- 14 Large Cap Stocks Hit 52-Week Highs On Friday
- Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Friday’s Full List
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | META | Meta Platforms | 6.0% | 1.6% |
| 2 | WY | Weyerhaeuser | 4.2% | 0.7% |
| 3 | SBAC | SBA Communications | 4.1% | -0.5% |
| 4 | NVDA | NVIDIA | 4.0% | 13.3% |
| 5 | CCI | Crown Castle | 3.9% | -8.2% |
| 6 | BF-B | Brown-Forman | 3.8% | 2.2% |
| 7 | CLX | Clorox | 3.7% | -2.0% |
| 8 | NKE | Nike | 3.7% | -29.3% |
| 9 | MOS | Mosaic | 3.7% | -9.0% |
| 10 | BBY | Best Buy | 3.5% | 27.3% |
Friday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | -10.8% | 131.5% |
| 2 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | -5.7% | 59.7% |
| 3 | DDOG | Datadog | -4.3% | 89.4% |
| 4 | FTNT | Fortinet | -3.8% | 98.4% |
| 5 | GILD | Gilead Sciences | -3.7% | 7.1% |
| 6 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks | -3.7% | 76.9% |
| 7 | DELL | Dell Technologies | -3.4% | 247.1% |
| 8 | FDXF | FedEx Freight | -3.1% | |
| 9 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -3.0% | 177.9% |
| 10 | FLEX | Flex | -3.0% | 124.8% |
Some declines are not a one-day story.
While daily lists capture immediate reactions, persistence is often more telling. FedEx Freight (FDXF) appears on both the one-day and one-month losers lists. Its one-month return is -20.7%, a figure that shows its recent weakness has been building for weeks, extending well beyond a single day.
Movers Over The Last Week
Widening the window to five trading days, these are the strongest and weakest S&P 500 names:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 17.7% | 104.0% |
| 2 | ANET | Arista Networks | 16.9% | 42.7% |
| 3 | META | Meta Platforms | 14.8% | 1.6% |
| 4 | AKAM | Akamai Technologies | 11.5% | 44.6% |
| 5 | STX | Seagate Technology | 11.0% | 231.4% |
| 6 | AVGO | Broadcom | 11.0% | 16.0% |
| 7 | HPQ | HP | 10.4% | 11.8% |
| 8 | DELL | Dell Technologies | 10.3% | 247.1% |
| 9 | LITE | Lumentum | 10.1% | 117.6% |
| 10 | NTAP | NetApp | 9.9% | 59.8% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | -14.4% | 131.5% |
| 2 | HONA | Honeywell Aerospace | -10.7% | |
| 3 | BLDR | Builders FirstSource | -10.6% | -26.4% |
| 4 | PSKY | Paramount Skydance | -9.4% | -29.1% |
| 5 | ARE | Alexandria Real Estate Equities | -8.9% | 0.7% |
| 6 | INTC | Intel | -8.7% | 197.7% |
| 7 | CPRT | Copart | -8.3% | -29.7% |
| 8 | VRTX | Vertex Pharmaceuticals | -8.1% | 7.1% |
| 9 | BIIB | Biogen | -7.9% | 13.2% |
| 10 | IFF | International Flavors & Fragrances | -7.5% | 16.3% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 43.0% | 131.5% |
| 2 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 33.7% | -1.0% |
| 3 | TECH | Bio-Techne | 31.0% | 21.6% |
| 4 | GPC | Genuine Parts | 26.4% | 4.2% |
| 5 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks | 25.1% | 76.9% |
| 6 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | 25.0% | -0.4% |
| 7 | DASH | DoorDash | 23.2% | -15.3% |
| 8 | CRL | Charles River Laboratories International | 22.9% | 17.0% |
| 9 | ANET | Arista Networks | 22.9% | 42.7% |
| 10 | AMAT | Applied Materials | 20.7% | 135.0% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ORCL | Oracle | -31.4% | -27.1% |
| 2 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | -30.3% | -3.3% |
| 3 | ACN | Accenture | -21.1% | -48.3% |
| 4 | FOXA | Fox | -20.8% | -25.6% |
| 5 | FDXF | FedEx Freight | -20.7% | |
| 6 | FOX | Fox | -20.0% | -24.5% |
| 7 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | -19.6% | -48.1% |
| 8 | ON | ON Semiconductor | -18.0% | 77.2% |
| 9 | SWKS | Skyworks Solutions | -17.9% | -2.8% |
| 10 | ECHO | EchoStar | -17.8% | -11.7% |
How should an investor use these lists?
The tables of top movers are a map of where market attention and capital flowed. But they are never an instruction. A large daily gain like the +6.0% for Meta Platforms (META) is simply a signal of investor focus, just as a steep drop is a signal of risk.
The disciplined next step is always the same. Look past the single day’s percentage change, consult the longer-term lists for context, and investigate the business that produced the move.
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 all major indices – the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Watch the movers for information; let the portfolio do the compounding.