S&P 500 Movers | Winners: HOOD, MRNA, COIN | Losers: MRVL, SRE, EIX
A day of sharp moves raises the question of which gains have staying power and which are just noise.
Robinhood Markets (HOOD) was the strongest S&P 500 stock of the day, returning +13.7%. The move came as the S&P 500 returned +0.4% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned +1.0%.
But the most important question these lists raise is about persistence: when is a big daily move part of a much larger trend? The day’s top performers offer a clear case study.
Friday’s S&P 500 Winners
- The 52-Week-High List: 20 S&P 500 Names On Friday
- S&P 500 Stocks At 52-Week Lows: Friday’s Full List
- 41 Small Cap Stocks Just Made New 52-Week Highs
- Where The Selling Ran Deepest: 12 Stocks At 52-Week Lows
- The 52-Week-High List: 19 Mid Cap Names On Friday
- 18 Large Cap Stocks Just Made New 52-Week Highs
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 13.7% | -4.4% |
| 2 | MRNA | Moderna | 8.9% | 392.1% |
| 3 | COIN | Coinbase Global | 8.2% | -17.5% |
| 4 | FCX | Freeport-McMoRan | 7.6% | 52.0% |
| 5 | ALB | Albemarle | 6.8% | 1.8% |
| 6 | EL | Estee Lauder Companies | 6.0% | -2.0% |
| 7 | HCA | HCA Healthcare | 5.6% | -7.7% |
| 8 | TSLA | Tesla | 5.1% | -19.3% |
| 9 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | 4.7% | -41.7% |
| 10 | CMG | Chipotle Mexican Grill | 4.6% | -0.3% |
Friday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -5.6% | 179.3% |
| 2 | SRE | Sempra | -5.1% | -4.8% |
| 3 | EIX | Edison International | -4.1% | 23.9% |
| 4 | AEP | American Electric Power | -3.8% | 7.3% |
| 5 | CNP | CenterPoint Energy | -3.6% | 2.8% |
| 6 | PWR | Quanta Services | -3.5% | 51.6% |
| 7 | Q | Qnity Electronics | -3.5% | 58.0% |
| 8 | XEL | Xcel Energy | -3.1% | 4.9% |
| 9 | BG | Bunge Global | -3.0% | 29.3% |
| 10 | EXC | Exelon | -2.8% | 2.2% |
Is this strength a new event?
Consider Moderna (MRNA). It was the second-strongest of the day, returning +8.9%. The data shows this is not an isolated event, as the stock appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists. Its one-month return is +154.5%. The source notes that excluding today, it still gained +133.8% over the other sessions, so its 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 | MRNA | Moderna | 129.2% | 392.1% |
| 2 | COIN | Coinbase Global | 25.6% | -17.5% |
| 3 | EL | Estee Lauder Companies | 18.4% | -2.0% |
| 4 | FCX | Freeport-McMoRan | 15.3% | 52.0% |
| 5 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 13.2% | -4.4% |
| 6 | MOS | Mosaic | 13.0% | 3.2% |
| 7 | MRK | Merck | 12.3% | 47.1% |
| 8 | NEM | Newmont | 11.7% | 32.4% |
| 9 | ARE | Alexandria Real Estate Equities | 11.1% | 12.5% |
| 10 | CMG | Chipotle Mexican Grill | 10.1% | -0.3% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RDDT | -13.9% | -33.3% | |
| 2 | JBL | Jabil | -13.7% | 37.5% |
| 3 | STX | Seagate Technology | -12.7% | 209.4% |
| 4 | FLEX | Flex | -12.5% | 82.8% |
| 5 | INTC | Intel | -12.1% | 144.1% |
| 6 | AKAM | Akamai Technologies | -11.7% | 26.6% |
| 7 | KEYS | Keysight Technologies | -11.7% | 55.6% |
| 8 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | -11.5% | 63.8% |
| 9 | COHR | Coherent | -11.1% | 56.9% |
| 10 | VRT | Vertiv | -10.9% | 61.8% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 154.5% | 392.1% |
| 2 | WDAY | Workday | 56.4% | -6.9% |
| 3 | IT | Gartner | 46.5% | -22.3% |
| 4 | PLTR | Palantir Technologies | 45.9% | 1.2% |
| 5 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 44.7% | -24.1% |
| 6 | ZBRA | Zebra Technologies | 43.4% | 51.8% |
| 7 | NEM | Newmont | 38.9% | 32.4% |
| 8 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 38.0% | 11.1% |
| 9 | PTC | PTC | 36.8% | -11.2% |
| 10 | ABNB | Airbnb | 36.1% | 38.0% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | -31.1% | -11.3% |
| 2 | DVA | DaVita | -25.8% | 53.0% |
| 3 | LII | Lennox International | -25.1% | -16.6% |
| 4 | APP | AppLovin | -23.3% | -54.6% |
| 5 | TTD | Trade Desk | -21.5% | -65.3% |
| 6 | NRG | NRG Energy | -20.6% | -28.3% |
| 7 | VST | Vistra | -19.4% | -15.3% |
| 8 | NXPI | NXP Semiconductors | -18.7% | 4.8% |
| 9 | WDC | Western Digital | -17.7% | 166.9% |
| 10 | ON | ON Semiconductor | -17.7% | 37.0% |
So what is the right way to use these lists?
The tables appearing earlier are a map of market attention, not a set of instructions. A large daily return flags a stock where something has changed, drawing in capital and forcing a re-evaluation of risk. The disciplined next step is never to chase the number. It is to investigate the business behind the ticker and understand the fundamentals driving the new valuation.
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.
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