S&P 500 Movers | Winners: MRNA, EIX, PCG | Losers: AXON, CDNS, IBKR
A day of broad declines saw one name continue a month-long surge, raising questions about momentum.
The S&P 500 returned -0.7% on the last trading day, with the Nasdaq-100 down 1.3%. Against that backdrop, the day’s strongest S&P 500 stock was Moderna (MRNA), which returned +9.9%.
This raises a core question for any movers list: is a large gain a new event, or the continuation of an existing trend? The day’s biggest moves offer a clear study in both.
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Winners
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- 9 Red Days In A Row: BridgeBio Pharma Stock Is Down 8.8%
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 9.9% | 423.1% |
| 2 | EIX | Edison International | 8.9% | 1.8% |
| 3 | PCG | PG&E | 6.0% | -12.0% |
| 4 | HPQ | HP | 4.3% | 44.6% |
| 5 | CF | CF Industries | 4.3% | 77.9% |
| 6 | BG | Bunge Global | 4.2% | 38.3% |
| 7 | HWM | Howmet Aerospace | 4.1% | 24.5% |
| 8 | DLTR | Dollar Tree | 4.0% | 7.1% |
| 9 | ADM | Archer-Daniels-Midland | 4.0% | 50.1% |
| 10 | CVS | CVS Health | 3.9% | 25.9% |
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -8.5% | -8.7% |
| 2 | CDNS | Cadence Design Systems | -7.6% | 0.1% |
| 3 | IBKR | Interactive Brokers | -7.0% | 41.0% |
| 4 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | -6.9% | 83.5% |
| 5 | DELL | Dell Technologies | -6.8% | 240.7% |
| 6 | ODFL | Old Dominion Freight Line | -6.6% | 19.4% |
| 7 | COIN | Coinbase Global | -6.0% | -21.8% |
| 8 | CIEN | Ciena | -5.9% | 54.1% |
| 9 | SNPS | Synopsys | -5.6% | -11.7% |
| 10 | DDOG | Datadog | -5.6% | 64.6% |
One winner shows persistent strength across timeframes.
Moderna (MRNA) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists. Its one-month return is +179.8%, and its strength is not a one-day event; excluding today, the stock still gained +154.5% over the other sessions. This performance comes as its revenue declined 27.7% over the last twelve months.
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 | CRM | Salesforce | 25.5% | -2.1% |
| 2 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 16.0% | 83.5% |
| 3 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 13.1% | 25.1% |
| 4 | HAL | Halliburton | 8.4% | 30.8% |
| 5 | BG | Bunge Global | 8.4% | 38.3% |
| 6 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | 7.9% | 138.2% |
| 7 | TYL | Tyler Technologies | 7.5% | -17.1% |
| 8 | DE | Deere | 7.2% | 46.0% |
| 9 | APA | APA Corporation | 7.1% | 85.4% |
| 10 | DG | Dollar General | 6.9% | 0.1% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PCG | PG&E | -23.4% | -12.0% |
| 2 | EIX | Edison International | -21.4% | 1.8% |
| 3 | PYPL | PayPal | -15.9% | -9.7% |
| 4 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -15.5% | -8.7% |
| 5 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -12.5% | 147.9% |
| 6 | CCL | Carnival Corporation | -11.1% | -22.7% |
| 7 | IP | International Paper | -11.1% | -4.0% |
| 8 | RDDT | -11.0% | -37.1% | |
| 9 | UAL | United Airlines | -10.9% | -6.4% |
| 10 | NCLH | Norwegian Cruise Line | -10.6% | -30.9% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 179.8% | 423.1% |
| 2 | PLTR | Palantir Technologies | 43.2% | 1.2% |
| 3 | CRM | Salesforce | 38.8% | -2.1% |
| 4 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 35.4% | 25.1% |
| 5 | NEM | Newmont | 28.6% | 23.4% |
| 6 | PSKY | Paramount Skydance | 28.3% | -20.5% |
| 7 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | 28.2% | 25.4% |
| 8 | IT | Gartner | 25.3% | -24.7% |
| 9 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | 25.1% | 138.2% |
| 10 | TYL | Tyler Technologies | 23.2% | -17.1% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HONA | Honeywell Aerospace | -25.9% | n/a |
| 2 | TTD | Trade Desk | -24.7% | -63.7% |
| 3 | DVA | DaVita | -24.6% | 55.0% |
| 4 | APP | AppLovin | -23.2% | -53.7% |
| 5 | NCLH | Norwegian Cruise Line | -21.9% | -30.9% |
| 6 | APTV | Aptiv | -21.6% | -41.1% |
| 7 | TPR | Tapestry | -21.5% | -3.9% |
| 8 | NRG | NRG Energy | -20.9% | -30.6% |
| 9 | LUV | Southwest Airlines | -19.9% | -8.0% |
| 10 | PCG | PG&E | -19.3% | -12.0% |
A large move is a starting point for research, not a conclusion.
The tables earlier in this report show a snapshot of attention and volatility. A stock’s appearance is information, not an instruction. It signals that something has focused market attention, creating a significant price change.
The disciplined follow-up is to investigate the business behind the ticker. For example, the day’s biggest loser, Axon Enterprise (AXON), trades at 209.5 times trailing earnings (on trailing earnings that include at least one loss quarter, so the multiple is not comparable to a clean-year multiple), while its revenue grew 34.6% over the last twelve months. Understanding that context is the work that follows a glance at the leaderboard.
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.
Volatility Is The Cost Of Owning Stocks. Concentration Makes It A Bill
Every name on these lists made a move big enough to notice. A diversified holder reads that as noise; a concentrated holder feels it as real money. The difference is not the stock, it is the portfolio around it.
Building that portfolio is what the Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio does: roughly 30 businesses with the cash generation and balance-sheet strength to absorb bad days, selected and rebalanced by rules. It has a track record of outpacing a benchmark that combines the three major indices – the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Let the movers list remind you why diversification exists.