Market Movers | Winners: TTRX, ORBS, NUAI | Losers: DYN, SGML, XFOR

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A day of sharp individual moves raises the question of which gains have staying power.

The S&P 500 fell 0.6% on the day, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 1.2%. Against that backdrop, Turn Therapeutics (TTRX) posted a gain of +29.2%.

The real question for any investor scanning a list of extremes is whether a move is a one-off event or part of a larger trend. Today’s lists offer a clear example of both.

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Tuesday’s Market Winners

The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 TTRX Turn Therapeutics 29.2% 221.3%
2 ORBS Eightco 26.2% -34.1%
3 NUAI New Era Energy & Digital 22.0% 125.3%
4 FCEL FuelCell Energy 18.8% 143.0%
5 ROIV Roivant Sciences 18.8% 91.2%
6 SEI Solaris Energy Infrastructure 16.3% 39.7%
7 TMS Teamshares 16.0% n/a
8 SATL Satellogic 15.3% 186.1%
9 SMR NuScale Power 15.3% -21.1%
10 ALTI AlTi Global 14.0% -26.3%

Tuesday’s Market Losers

And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 DYN Dyne Therapeutics -16.4% 3.8%
2 SGML Sigma Lithium -15.8% -20.9%
3 XFOR X4 Pharmaceuticals -13.2% -12.4%
4 CNXC Concentrix -12.1% -29.3%
5 HWM Howmet Aerospace -10.7% 13.1%
6 SANA Sana Biotechnology -10.4% -15.2%
7 MEI Methode Electronics -10.4% 115.4%
8 AMGN Amgen -10.1% 22.6%
9 APPN Appian -9.9% -2.4%
10 ALIT Alight -9.9% -65.5%

Some moves show clear persistence across time horizons.

Eightco (ORBS) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists. Its one-month return is +65.4%, and its strength is not a one-day event. The stock still gained +31.1% over the other sessions in the period, excluding today’s 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 ORBS Eightco 48.9% -34.1%
2 MNTK Montauk Renewables 45.3% 49.7%
3 CYPH Cypherpunk Technologies 44.1% 126.7%
4 NUAI New Era Energy & Digital 39.1% 125.3%
5 BE Bloom Energy 34.4% 219.0%
6 EOSE Eos Energy Enterprises 33.5% -62.5%
7 TTRX Turn Therapeutics 31.9% 221.3%
8 EPRX Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals 27.7% 9.3%
9 NRGV Energy Vault 27.1% -6.3%
10 SMMT Summit Therapeutics 26.9% -1.2%

 

# Ticker Company Name 1-W
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 ALMS Alumis -51.5% 8.4%
2 RARE Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical -41.0% -35.3%
3 CXM Sprinklr -32.4% -28.7%
4 GWRE Guidewire Software -26.9% -25.5%
5 CRDO Credo Technology -25.8% 16.6%
6 PATH UiPath -25.0% -14.5%
7 MEI Methode Electronics -22.9% 115.4%
8 RPD Rapid7 -22.3% -31.2%
9 MDB MongoDB -21.5% -15.2%
10 DYN Dyne Therapeutics -20.1% 3.8%

Movers Over The Last Month

And over the last 21 trading days:

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 CYPH Cypherpunk Technologies 281.9% 126.7%
2 MRNA Moderna 137.2% 375.9%
3 CAPR Capricor Therapeutics 121.5% -68.6%
4 ARCT Arcturus Therapeutics 110.9% 155.0%
5 QMCO Quantum 103.2% 279.2%
6 PURR Hyperliquid Strategies 75.2% 235.1%
7 HTFL HeartFlow 65.7% 63.8%
8 ORBS Eightco 65.4% -34.1%
9 ABCL AbCellera Biologics 65.1% 234.5%
10 ARX Accelerant 59.2% 21.3%

 

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 SION Sionna Therapeutics -85.7% -82.3%
2 EYPT EyePoint -67.2% -75.0%
3 ALMS Alumis -61.7% 8.4%
4 KLC KinderCare Learning Companies -50.1% -40.3%
5 RARE Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical -42.6% -35.3%
6 AADX Applied Aerospace & Defense -42.5% n/a
7 CDNL Cardinal Infrastructure -40.3% 58.1%
8 LINC Lincoln Educational Services -39.5% 2.7%
9 AEVA Aeva Technologies -39.0% 22.4%
10 DKS Dick’s Sporting Goods -36.6% -32.3%

What is the right way to use these lists?

A large price change is information about attention and risk, never an instruction to act. The names in the tables earlier are starting points for research, not conclusions.

The disciplined follow-up is to investigate the underlying business. A stock price is not the company, and a one-day, one-week, or even one-month return reveals little about its long-term prospects.

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.

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