S&P 500 Movers | Winners: CPRT, SNDK, AMD | Losers: AVGO, GDDY, AMAT
Beneath the market’s daily churn, some moves show signs of persistence while others are just noise.
Copart (CPRT) led the market with a +7.6% return on a day the S&P 500 finished down 0.2%. That contrast raises the central question for any daily report: how can an investor distinguish a durable trend from a single session’s volatility? The day’s biggest winners and losers are the first piece of that puzzle.
Friday’s S&P 500 Winners
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
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- Phillips 66 Stock Rides A 5-Day Winning Streak To A 15% Gain
- A 5-Day Winning Streak Has SanDisk Stock Up 35%
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CPRT | Copart | 7.6% | -19.3% |
| 2 | SNDK | SanDisk | 7.4% | 591.3% |
| 3 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 6.5% | 140.2% |
| 4 | FOX | Fox Corp Class B | 5.7% | -4.9% |
| 5 | STX | Seagate Technology | 5.7% | 254.3% |
| 6 | FOXA | Fox Corp Class A | 5.5% | -5.1% |
| 7 | NRG | NRG Energy | 5.4% | -19.9% |
| 8 | LITE | Lumentum | 5.2% | 151.3% |
| 9 | HAL | Halliburton | 4.8% | 22.9% |
| 10 | GLW | Corning | 4.7% | 90.2% |
Friday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AVGO | Broadcom | -5.9% | 14.0% |
| 2 | GDDY | GoDaddy | -5.6% | -23.5% |
| 3 | AMAT | Applied Materials | -5.1% | 97.8% |
| 4 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | -3.8% | -15.5% |
| 5 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | -3.8% | 85.1% |
| 6 | HPQ | HP | -3.8% | 39.0% |
| 7 | WDAY | Workday | -3.8% | -7.5% |
| 8 | GEN | Gen Digital | -3.7% | 5.9% |
| 9 | ORCL | Oracle | -3.6% | -22.0% |
| 10 | ARES | Ares Management | -3.6% | -8.8% |
Is today’s strength just a one-day story?
For some names, the answer is clearly no. The data shows instances of persistent strength, where a single day’s gain is part of a longer-term move. Seagate Technology (STX) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists, having posted a one-month return of +30.6%. Lumentum (LITE) shows a similar pattern, also appearing on both lists with a one-month return of +31.1%. For these companies, their strength is not a one-day event.
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 | SNDK | SanDisk | 35.4% | 591.3% |
| 2 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | 28.0% | 36.1% |
| 3 | STX | Seagate Technology | 19.8% | 254.3% |
| 4 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | 19.2% | 120.5% |
| 5 | WDC | Western Digital | 17.2% | 195.6% |
| 6 | PSX | Phillips 66 | 14.6% | 83.9% |
| 7 | VLO | Valero Energy | 14.5% | 113.0% |
| 8 | AKAM | Akamai Technologies | 13.1% | 43.3% |
| 9 | KKR | KKR | 11.1% | -10.1% |
| 10 | MU | Micron Technology | 10.7% | 240.6% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TPR | Tapestry | -20.6% | 1.5% |
| 2 | COHR | Coherent | -14.1% | 76.5% |
| 3 | FSLR | First Solar | -9.8% | -13.7% |
| 4 | ULTA | Ulta Beauty | -9.6% | -15.6% |
| 5 | APP | AppLovin | -9.0% | -53.2% |
| 6 | AVGO | Broadcom | -8.1% | 14.0% |
| 7 | CSCO | Cisco Systems | -8.0% | 47.1% |
| 8 | EBAY | eBay | -7.9% | 19.1% |
| 9 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | -7.0% | -42.5% |
| 10 | MCHP | Microchip Technology | -6.5% | 25.6% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | 61.4% | 36.1% |
| 2 | ZBRA | Zebra Technologies | 41.9% | 54.9% |
| 3 | WDAY | Workday | 36.6% | -7.5% |
| 4 | LDOS | Leidos | 32.8% | -19.8% |
| 5 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 31.9% | -28.3% |
| 6 | LITE | Lumentum | 31.1% | 151.3% |
| 7 | STX | Seagate Technology | 30.6% | 254.3% |
| 8 | HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 30.1% | 146.7% |
| 9 | TER | Teradyne | 29.9% | 116.5% |
| 10 | NTAP | NetApp | 29.7% | 95.9% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | -27.8% | -6.9% |
| 2 | APP | AppLovin | -27.4% | -53.2% |
| 3 | TTD | The Trade Desk | -26.0% | -62.8% |
| 4 | LII | Lennox International | -24.4% | -12.6% |
| 5 | DVA | DaVita | -23.1% | 58.5% |
| 6 | HONA | Honeywell Aerospace | -20.2% | n/a |
| 7 | ROL | Rollins | -20.0% | -39.0% |
| 8 | APTV | Aptiv | -16.4% | -34.9% |
| 9 | DECK | Deckers Outdoor | -14.6% | -10.2% |
| 10 | TPL | Texas Pacific Land | -13.8% | 25.2% |
So what does a big move really tell me?
A movers list is a map of where the market’s attention and capital flowed, not an instruction manual. The tables earlier show a new cast of characters over one day, one week, and one month, which highlights the constant rotation. A large gain or loss is simply information. It signals that something has changed perceptions of risk or opportunity for a specific company. The disciplined next step is always the same: to look past the stock price and investigate the business that produced it.
The next step is never to trade the list; it is to test it. Our Guidance Momentum screen shows which risers have management raising guidance behind them, and our Buy the Dip screen shows which of the fallers still generate the growth and cash that make a recovery plausible.
The Tape Rewards Attention. It Punishes Reaction
Big daily moves pull hard at both greed and fear, and acting on either, day after day, is how most portfolios end up trailing the index they were trying to beat.
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