Market Movers | Winners: NX, BBCP, TYRA | Losers: ALTI, GWRE, LULU
A day of sharp, fresh moves in individual stocks unfolded against a nearly flat market backdrop.
Quanex Building Products (NX) finished the day up +22.2%, while AlTi Global (ALTI) closed with a return of -21.9%. This divergence happened against a quiet backdrop for the major indexes, with the S&P 500 returning -0.4%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average returning -0.5%, and the Nasdaq-100 returning +0.2%.
With such large moves in specific names on a relatively flat day, the key question is whether these are continuations of existing trends or something new. The day’s biggest winners and losers are below.
Friday’s Market Winners
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NX | Quanex Building Products | 22.2% | 50.5% |
| 2 | BBCP | Concrete Pumping | 16.0% | 56.5% |
| 3 | TYRA | Tyra Biosciences | 15.2% | 9.0% |
| 4 | TITN | Titan Machinery | 14.8% | 74.3% |
| 5 | AEHR | Aehr Test Systems | 13.1% | 327.2% |
| 6 | EPRX | Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals | 12.0% | 11.3% |
| 7 | SNDK | SanDisk | 11.9% | 633.0% |
| 8 | GOLD | Gold.com | 11.2% | 36.6% |
| 9 | PSIX | Power Solutions International | 11.2% | -29.1% |
| 10 | EOSE | Eos Energy Enterprises | 10.9% | -66.1% |
Friday’s Market Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALTI | AlTi Global | -21.9% | -35.3% |
| 2 | GWRE | Guidewire Software | -19.9% | -19.2% |
| 3 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | -17.4% | -51.6% |
| 4 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -16.7% | -44.9% |
| 5 | PATH | UiPath | -16.6% | -7.3% |
| 6 | OXM | Oxford Industries | -15.7% | -5.2% |
| 7 | ABTC | American Bitcoin | -14.5% | -68.7% |
| 8 | ASAN | Asana | -12.7% | -35.7% |
| 9 | BALY | Ballys | -10.7% | -44.7% |
| 10 | TRON | -9.8% | 19.4% |
Today’s big moves are new stories.
No stock appears on both the one-day and one-month leaderboards on the same side today. This suggests the day’s extremes are mostly fresh moves rather than continuations. The day’s top gainer, Quanex Building Products (NX), has a market value of about $1.0 billion, and its revenue grew 14.2% over the last twelve months.
Meanwhile, the day’s weakest performer, AlTi Global (ALTI), saw its revenue grow 30.0% over the same period, a figure that stands in contrast to its single-day stock move.
Movers Over The Last Week
Widening the window to five trading days, these are the strongest and weakest Market names:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TITN | Titan Machinery | 46.8% | 74.3% |
| 2 | CYPH | Cypherpunk Technologies | 41.5% | 108.6% |
| 3 | SMMT | Summit Therapeutics | 28.2% | 0.7% |
| 4 | IRD | Opus Genetics | 26.6% | 132.3% |
| 5 | TARS | Tarsus Pharmaceuticals | 26.5% | 10.9% |
| 6 | MNTK | Montauk Renewables | 26.0% | 33.5% |
| 7 | EPRX | Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals | 25.8% | 11.3% |
| 8 | CNH | CNH Industrial | 23.3% | 57.7% |
| 9 | FRVO | Fervo Energy | 23.0% | n/a |
| 10 | SION | Sionna Therapeutics | 22.3% | -82.5% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALMS | Alumis | -50.4% | 13.7% |
| 2 | RARE | Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical | -40.3% | -33.5% |
| 3 | TRON | -28.8% | 19.4% | |
| 4 | CXM | Sprinklr | -27.6% | -24.0% |
| 5 | CRDO | Credo Technology | -26.7% | 18.5% |
| 6 | ENOV | Enovis | -25.5% | -30.3% |
| 7 | ALTI | AlTi Global | -25.2% | -35.3% |
| 8 | GWRE | Guidewire Software | -21.1% | -19.2% |
| 9 | FNKO | Funko | -20.0% | 67.1% |
| 10 | OXM | Oxford Industries | -19.4% | -5.2% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CYPH | Cypherpunk Technologies | 259.2% | 108.6% |
| 2 | MRNA | Moderna | 170.2% | 393.6% |
| 3 | ARCT | Arcturus Therapeutics | 160.2% | 158.1% |
| 4 | RCEL | AVITA Medical | 135.8% | 224.6% |
| 5 | CAPR | Capricor Therapeutics | 124.9% | -67.4% |
| 6 | QMCO | Quantum | 111.7% | 283.4% |
| 7 | GORO | Goldgroup Mining | 95.8% | -9.0% |
| 8 | OABI | OmniAb | 93.3% | 134.1% |
| 9 | SENS | Senseonics | 87.0% | 74.5% |
| 10 | PURR | Hyperliquid Strategies | 82.6% | 242.1% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SION | Sionna Therapeutics | -85.5% | -82.5% |
| 2 | EYPT | EyePoint | -64.3% | -74.9% |
| 3 | ALMS | Alumis | -60.1% | 13.7% |
| 4 | KLC | KinderCare Learning Companies | -47.7% | -38.2% |
| 5 | LASR | nLight | -46.9% | 6.8% |
| 6 | CDNL | Cardinal Infrastructure | -41.8% | 50.7% |
| 7 | RARE | Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical | -40.7% | -33.5% |
| 8 | AADX | Applied Aerospace & Defense | -39.2% | n/a |
| 9 | AEVA | Aeva Technologies | -37.9% | 18.1% |
| 10 | FTK | Flotek Industries | -35.4% | 36.6% |
What does a sharp move actually tell you?
The tables above map the week’s and month’s most significant price changes. A disciplined investor uses these lists not as instructions, but as information. A large move in either direction is a signal of heightened attention and risk.
The essential next step is not to chase the performance but to investigate the business behind the ticker. A stock price is just a number; the quality of the underlying company is what matters over any horizon.
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.
Today’s Winner Is Tomorrow’s Loser Often Enough
The movers list is the most honest picture of single-stock risk the market prints each day: the same volatility that makes the winners column also fills the losers column, and no one reliably knows which side a stock lands on next.
That is the case for owning a disciplined basket instead of chasing the tape. The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio holds roughly 30 businesses selected for consistent cash generation, strong margins, and resilient balance sheets, sized and rebalanced with 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. Watch the movers for information; let the portfolio do the compounding.