S&P 500 Movers | Winners: HOOD, COIN, PLTR | Losers: CIEN, TSN, CHTR
A strong day for the indexes saw extreme moves in stocks already deep into longer-term trends.
Robinhood Markets (HOOD) led the S&P 500 with a +16.6% return on a day when the major indexes posted solid gains. The S&P 500 itself returned +1.1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq-100 both returned +1.2%.
The day’s extremes, however, were not isolated events. The most important question is whether these are fresh moves or the continuation of established momentum. The one-day lists below offer the first clues.
Thursday’s S&P 500 Winners
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- HF Sinclair Stock Climbs 14% On A 7-Day Winning Streak
- Royal Caribbean Stock Slides 9.4% Over 8 Straight Down Days
- Marathon Petroleum Stock Climbs 9.3% On A 7-Day Winning Streak
- Trade Desk Stock Climbs 16% On A 6-Day Winning Streak
- A 5-Day Losing Streak Has Credo Technology Stock Down 32%
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 16.6% | 10.3% |
| 2 | COIN | Coinbase Global | 10.1% | -14.8% |
| 3 | PLTR | Palantir Technologies | 7.7% | 2.7% |
| 4 | PFG | Principal Financial | 7.3% | 37.7% |
| 5 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | 6.1% | -5.2% |
| 6 | ORCL | Oracle | 5.7% | -20.2% |
| 7 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 5.7% | 83.4% |
| 8 | TSLA | Tesla | 5.4% | -16.3% |
| 9 | HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 5.0% | 128.8% |
| 10 | DELL | Dell Technologies | 4.9% | 314.0% |
Thursday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CIEN | Ciena | -10.4% | 35.7% |
| 2 | TSN | Tyson Foods | -7.3% | -9.4% |
| 3 | CHTR | Charter Communications | -4.8% | -27.5% |
| 4 | KHC | Kraft Heinz | -4.7% | 6.8% |
| 5 | ALB | Albemarle | -4.1% | -6.1% |
| 6 | GIS | General Mills | -3.3% | -11.4% |
| 7 | AMCR | Amcor | -3.1% | 11.7% |
| 8 | DOW | Dow Inc. | -2.9% | 34.3% |
| 9 | BSX | Boston Scientific | -2.9% | -50.8% |
| 10 | AVGO | Broadcom | -2.7% | 3.6% |
Are these one-day wonders or established trends?
The day’s biggest moves are extensions of prior performance. Robinhood Markets (HOOD) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists. Its one-month return is +34.4%, and its strength is not a one-day event, as excluding today it still gained +15.3% over the other sessions.
The same pattern holds for the biggest loser. Ciena (CIEN), down 10.4% today, also appears on the one-month losers list. Its weakness has been building for weeks; excluding today’s session, it still lost 13.4% over the prior period, contributing to a one-month return of -22.3%.
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 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 13.6% | 10.3% |
| 2 | TTD | Trade Desk | 12.4% | -60.2% |
| 3 | DE | Deere | 11.5% | 50.0% |
| 4 | CF | CF Industries | 9.6% | 80.8% |
| 5 | DELL | Dell Technologies | 9.3% | 314.0% |
| 6 | CTVA | Corteva | 7.8% | 33.1% |
| 7 | HPQ | HP | 7.8% | 47.4% |
| 8 | BG | Bunge Global | 7.7% | 37.3% |
| 9 | MOS | Mosaic | 7.3% | 7.8% |
| 10 | VLO | Valero Energy | 7.0% | 131.1% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EIX | Edison International | -23.6% | -2.5% |
| 2 | PCG | PG&E | -22.2% | -12.6% |
| 3 | CIEN | Ciena | -20.6% | 35.7% |
| 4 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -13.5% | 146.1% |
| 5 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks | -13.3% | 80.2% |
| 6 | CDNS | Cadence Design Systems | -12.3% | -2.5% |
| 7 | ADSK | Autodesk | -12.2% | -19.8% |
| 8 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -12.0% | -5.2% |
| 9 | DDOG | Datadog | -11.6% | 57.9% |
| 10 | LITE | Lumentum | -11.4% | 129.9% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 164.6% | 404.8% |
| 2 | CRM | Salesforce | 37.0% | 0.3% |
| 3 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 34.4% | 10.3% |
| 4 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 33.2% | 27.4% |
| 5 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | 30.6% | 141.2% |
| 6 | COIN | Coinbase Global | 28.6% | -14.8% |
| 7 | APA | APA Corporation | 27.5% | 84.9% |
| 8 | PSX | Phillips 66 | 26.4% | 101.5% |
| 9 | PSKY | Paramount Skydance | 26.0% | -16.8% |
| 10 | NEM | Newmont | 25.3% | 31.5% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APP | AppLovin | -24.9% | -53.5% |
| 2 | DDOG | Datadog | -24.2% | 57.9% |
| 3 | HONA | Honeywell Aerospace | -23.9% | n/a |
| 4 | TPR | Tapestry | -23.3% | -3.9% |
| 5 | NCLH | Norwegian Cruise Line | -23.2% | -30.2% |
| 6 | CIEN | Ciena | -22.3% | 35.7% |
| 7 | CCL | Carnival Corporation | -20.4% | -21.9% |
| 8 | TTD | Trade Desk | -20.4% | -60.2% |
| 9 | LUV | Southwest Airlines | -20.2% | -5.0% |
| 10 | COHR | Coherent | -19.4% | 43.3% |
So what does a disciplined investor do with this list?
A movers list is a map of where the market’s attention is focused, not a set of instructions. The tables earlier show which moves are new and which have been building over a week or a month. A large gain or loss is simply a signal that something has changed.
The disciplined follow-up is always the same. It is to look past the stock price and check the fundamentals of the business behind the ticker. The list tells you what is volatile; your own work tells you what has value.
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.