S&P 500 Movers | Winners: EXPE, DLTR, CHD | Losers: STX, SNDK, CIEN
A day of divergent indexes raises the question of which moves have staying power and which are just noise.
Gartner (IT) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists, a rare sign of persistence. This stands out on a day when the major indexes could not agree on a direction. The S&P 500 returned -0.3% and the Nasdaq-100 returned -1.0%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned +0.3%.
The day’s biggest individual moves, both positive and negative, are detailed in the tables that follow.
Monday’s S&P 500 Winners
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- A 5-Day Losing Streak Has Quanta Services Stock Down 15%
- A 5-Day Losing Streak Has Jabil Stock Down 18%
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The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EXPE | Expedia | 5.4% | 20.2% |
| 2 | DLTR | Dollar Tree | 4.0% | 11.2% |
| 3 | CHD | Church & Dwight | 3.8% | 23.4% |
| 4 | MO | Altria | 3.6% | 22.5% |
| 5 | GDDY | GoDaddy | 3.6% | -19.0% |
| 6 | IT | Gartner | 3.5% | -19.6% |
| 7 | CVNA | Carvana | 3.5% | -14.3% |
| 8 | BXP | 3.4% | 6.2% | |
| 9 | TSCO | Tractor Supply | 3.4% | -26.8% |
| 10 | AWK | American Water Works | 3.3% | 9.4% |
Monday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | STX | Seagate Technology | -6.5% | 189.3% |
| 2 | SNDK | SanDisk | -6.5% | 529.0% |
| 3 | CIEN | Ciena | -6.0% | 59.0% |
| 4 | MU | Micron Technology | -5.8% | 219.2% |
| 5 | JBHT | JB Hunt Transport Services | -5.7% | 34.5% |
| 6 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | -5.6% | 20.2% |
| 7 | WDC | Western Digital | -5.2% | 152.9% |
| 8 | COHR | Coherent | -4.8% | 49.3% |
| 9 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -4.8% | 5.2% |
| 10 | FDXF | FedEx Freight | -4.4% | n/a |
Gartner’s strength is not a one-day event.
The data shows some gains have deeper roots. Gartner’s one-month return is +44.3%, and its strength is not a one-day event; excluding today, it still gained +39.4% over the other sessions. This kind of follow-through is what separates a durable trend from a fleeting reaction.
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 | 115.5% | 371.0% |
| 2 | EL | Estee Lauder Companies | 23.5% | 0.1% |
| 3 | COIN | Coinbase Global | 19.2% | -20.6% |
| 4 | ARE | Alexandria Real Estate Equities | 15.1% | 13.6% |
| 5 | FCX | Freeport-McMoRan | 13.8% | 54.3% |
| 6 | JKHY | Jack Henry & Associates | 13.8% | -5.8% |
| 7 | IT | Gartner | 13.2% | -19.6% |
| 8 | MOS | Mosaic | 13.0% | 1.5% |
| 9 | CMG | Chipotle Mexican Grill | 12.6% | 2.8% |
| 10 | TGT | Target | 12.5% | 78.6% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | COHR | Coherent | -21.6% | 49.3% |
| 2 | STX | Seagate Technology | -20.1% | 189.3% |
| 3 | WDC | Western Digital | -18.8% | 152.9% |
| 4 | FLEX | -18.0% | 76.5% | |
| 5 | TER | Teradyne | -17.7% | 88.7% |
| 6 | JBL | Jabil | -17.6% | 33.8% |
| 7 | CIEN | Ciena | -16.4% | 59.0% |
| 8 | SNDK | SanDisk | -16.4% | 529.0% |
| 9 | GLW | Corning | -16.0% | 66.8% |
| 10 | INTC | Intel | -15.7% | 136.5% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 156.9% | 371.0% |
| 2 | WDAY | Workday | 47.1% | -7.3% |
| 3 | IT | Gartner | 44.3% | -19.6% |
| 4 | PLTR | Palantir Technologies | 43.1% | -1.0% |
| 5 | NEM | Newmont | 41.5% | 32.6% |
| 6 | ZBRA | Zebra Technologies | 39.8% | 49.6% |
| 7 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 37.7% | -23.7% |
| 8 | ABNB | Airbnb | 34.8% | 40.1% |
| 9 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 33.4% | 11.3% |
| 10 | DASH | DoorDash | 32.5% | 1.1% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LII | Lennox International | -26.2% | -17.4% |
| 2 | DVA | DaVita | -25.0% | 55.4% |
| 3 | APP | AppLovin | -23.8% | -55.7% |
| 4 | CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | -23.4% | -10.5% |
| 5 | TTD | Trade Desk | -23.3% | -65.0% |
| 6 | HONA | Honeywell Aerospace | -21.0% | n/a |
| 7 | NRG | NRG Energy | -20.5% | -29.1% |
| 8 | NXPI | NXP Semiconductors | -17.4% | 3.4% |
| 9 | ON | ON Semiconductor | -17.1% | 32.8% |
| 10 | VST | Vistra | -17.0% | -15.7% |
Discipline starts after the leaderboard.
The tables earlier in this report are a map of market attention, not a set of instructions. A large daily move, like the -6.5% return for Seagate Technology (STX) or the +5.4% for Expedia (EXPE), is simply a signal to do more work.
A disciplined investor uses that signal to check the fundamentals. For Seagate, that might mean looking at its $178.8 billion market value and its 34.1% revenue growth over the last twelve months. For Expedia, it could be its 12.0% revenue growth or its valuation of 20.0 times trailing earnings (on trailing earnings that include at least one loss quarter, so the multiple is not comparable to a clean-year multiple). The move gets your attention; the business context determines your next step.
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.
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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