S&P 500 Movers | Winners: MRNA, SMCI, HOOD | Losers: ALB, DOW, LYB
A single name’s persistent strength stands out against a backdrop of otherwise quiet market gains.
Moderna (MRNA) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists, a rare signal of persistence in a market that saw modest gains. The S&P 500 returned +0.3% on the day, while the Nasdaq-100 returned +0.6%.
The day’s extremes force a classic question: what separates a durable trend from a one-day flash? The names below show the full range of the session’s action.
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Winners
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 14.4% | 438.6% |
| 2 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | 9.4% | 31.4% |
| 3 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 8.2% | -0.9% |
| 4 | CDW | 7.7% | 6.0% | |
| 5 | LITE | Lumentum | 6.7% | 140.3% |
| 6 | RDDT | 6.4% | -29.3% | |
| 7 | IBKR | Interactive Brokers | 5.5% | 53.0% |
| 8 | CDNS | Cadence Design Systems | 5.1% | 6.2% |
| 9 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 4.9% | 123.7% |
| 10 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 4.8% | 183.3% |
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALB | Albemarle | -5.9% | -5.4% |
| 2 | DOW | -4.1% | 31.9% | |
| 3 | LYB | LyondellBasell Industries | -4.1% | 49.3% |
| 4 | ERIE | Erie Indemnity | -4.0% | -8.5% |
| 5 | TGT | Target | -3.8% | 71.8% |
| 6 | APA | -3.7% | 73.0% | |
| 7 | COO | Cooper Companies | -3.6% | -10.9% |
| 8 | DECK | Deckers Outdoor | -3.6% | -14.4% |
| 9 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | -3.6% | -43.1% |
| 10 | IT | Gartner | -3.4% | -22.4% |
Moderna’s gain is more than a one-day story.
The stock’s one-month return is +185.5%, and its strength is not a one-day event; excluding today, it still gained +149.7% over the other sessions. This market momentum is notable given its revenue declined 27.7% over the last twelve months.
On the other side of the ledger, the day’s weakest stock, Albemarle (ALB), returned -5.9%. The company trades at 70.1 times trailing earnings (on trailing earnings that include at least one loss quarter, so the multiple is not comparable to a clean-year multiple).
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 | 152.3% | 438.6% |
| 2 | COIN | Coinbase Global | 28.0% | -17.2% |
| 3 | EL | Estee Lauder Companies | 24.4% | 0.8% |
| 4 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 22.5% | -0.9% |
| 5 | FCX | Freeport-McMoRan | 20.5% | 58.5% |
| 6 | CVNA | Carvana | 16.6% | -10.2% |
| 7 | NEM | Newmont | 16.5% | 35.9% |
| 8 | MRK | Merck | 15.7% | 50.8% |
| 9 | ARE | Alexandria Real Estate Equities | 15.4% | 11.2% |
| 10 | MOS | Mosaic | 14.8% | 2.6% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PWR | Quanta Services | -13.3% | 43.1% |
| 2 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | -12.9% | 58.2% |
| 3 | EME | EMCOR | -10.3% | 21.1% |
| 4 | FIX | Comfort Systems USA | -10.2% | 67.6% |
| 5 | HWM | Howmet Aerospace | -9.8% | 29.0% |
| 6 | INTC | Intel | -9.5% | 137.1% |
| 7 | TER | Teradyne | -9.4% | 89.5% |
| 8 | DDOG | Datadog | -9.4% | 64.0% |
| 9 | WDC | Western Digital | -9.2% | 161.8% |
| 10 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks | -9.2% | 84.5% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 185.5% | 438.6% |
| 2 | NEM | Newmont | 44.6% | 35.9% |
| 3 | ZBRA | Zebra Technologies | 36.3% | 48.5% |
| 4 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 34.8% | -22.6% |
| 5 | PSKY | Paramount Skydance | 32.9% | -19.6% |
| 6 | IT | Gartner | 32.8% | -22.4% |
| 7 | CRL | Charles River Laboratories International | 32.7% | 49.2% |
| 8 | WDAY | Workday | 31.8% | -9.5% |
| 9 | PLTR | Palantir Technologies | 31.3% | -2.8% |
| 10 | ABNB | Airbnb | 29.7% | 40.4% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LII | Lennox International | -28.9% | -19.4% |
| 2 | TTD | Trade Desk | -25.9% | -65.1% |
| 3 | DVA | DaVita | -24.8% | 56.5% |
| 4 | APP | AppLovin | -24.8% | -53.9% |
| 5 | HONA | Honeywell Aerospace | -23.9% | n/a |
| 6 | APTV | Aptiv | -18.8% | -38.7% |
| 7 | ON | ON Semiconductor | -18.6% | 33.9% |
| 8 | CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | -17.7% | -10.0% |
| 9 | NRG | NRG Energy | -16.5% | -28.0% |
| 10 | NXPI | NXP Semiconductors | -16.0% | 4.4% |
A movers list is a map of attention, not a set of instructions.
The weekly and monthly tables shown earlier demonstrate how quickly leadership can change. A name’s appearance on any list is simply a signal that other market participants are focused on it, for reasons that may or may not be sound.
The disciplined step is not to chase the performance but to investigate the underlying business. A stock price is a claim on future earnings, and these lists are merely the start of the work, never the end.
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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