S&P 500 Movers | Winners: LITE, INTC, HPE | Losers: HWM, AMGN, SYK
Some losses are more than a day’s work, while a few names find clear air in a down market.
Howmet Aerospace (HWM) and Stryker (SYK) both appear on the one-day and one-month losers lists, a rare sign of persistent pressure. This occurred as the broader market pulled back, with the S&P 500 returning -0.6%. The key question for any investor scanning the extremes is what separates a fleeting move from a developing trend. The day’s full leaderboard of winners and losers follows.
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 | LITE | Lumentum | 11.0% | 165.5% |
| 2 | INTC | Intel | 9.1% | 183.1% |
| 3 | HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 7.8% | 135.4% |
| 4 | GLW | Corning | 7.6% | 90.5% |
| 5 | COHR | Coherent | 7.1% | 63.6% |
| 6 | STX | Seagate Technology | 6.5% | 229.2% |
| 7 | CIEN | Ciena | 6.3% | 45.9% |
| 8 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 5.9% | 136.2% |
| 9 | TPL | Texas Pacific Land | 5.4% | 33.5% |
| 10 | FCX | Freeport-McMoRan | 5.3% | 51.9% |
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HWM | Howmet Aerospace | -10.7% | 13.1% |
| 2 | AMGN | Amgen | -10.1% | 22.6% |
| 3 | SYK | Stryker | -8.8% | -20.9% |
| 4 | GDDY | GoDaddy | -8.3% | -25.1% |
| 5 | EXPE | Expedia | -7.9% | -2.5% |
| 6 | IT | Gartner | -7.4% | -31.6% |
| 7 | BKNG | Booking | -6.7% | -15.4% |
| 8 | BSX | Boston Scientific | -5.9% | -52.8% |
| 9 | FIS | Fidelity National Information Services | -5.9% | -39.5% |
| 10 | STZ | Constellation Brands | -5.6% | -10.4% |
When is a big move more than just one day’s noise?
The weakness in some names has been building for weeks. Howmet Aerospace (HWM) appears on both the one-day and one-month losers lists. Its one-month return is -17.9%, and excluding today it still lost 8.0% over the other sessions.
Stryker (SYK) shows a similar pattern, also appearing on both lists. The stock’s one-month return is -18.5%, and it still lost 10.6% over the other sessions excluding today’s move.
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 | DELL | Dell Technologies | 17.1% | 328.0% |
| 2 | INTC | Intel | 16.7% | 183.1% |
| 3 | SWKS | Skyworks Solutions | 12.5% | 21.4% |
| 4 | VRT | Vertiv | 12.4% | 79.6% |
| 5 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 12.0% | 3.7% |
| 6 | PCG | PG&E | 11.7% | -7.2% |
| 7 | GLW | Corning | 11.6% | 90.5% |
| 8 | BBY | Best Buy | 11.5% | 37.3% |
| 9 | SNDK | SanDisk | 10.9% | 632.2% |
| 10 | VST | Vistra | 10.4% | -5.7% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -18.6% | -44.8% |
| 2 | ADSK | Autodesk | -17.9% | -28.3% |
| 3 | CDNS | Cadence Design Systems | -16.1% | -9.1% |
| 4 | SYK | Stryker | -14.6% | -20.9% |
| 5 | PTC | PTC Inc. | -14.4% | -23.5% |
| 6 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | -14.2% | -50.3% |
| 7 | DASH | DoorDash | -13.5% | -11.5% |
| 8 | EXPE | Expedia | -13.4% | -2.5% |
| 9 | IT | Gartner | -12.9% | -31.6% |
| 10 | ADBE | Adobe | -12.1% | -26.5% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 137.2% | 375.9% |
| 2 | SNDK | SanDisk | 43.4% | 632.2% |
| 3 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | 33.8% | 147.4% |
| 4 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | 29.3% | 37.5% |
| 5 | CRM | Salesforce | 29.3% | -5.5% |
| 6 | VLO | Valero Energy | 28.3% | 138.7% |
| 7 | PSX | Phillips 66 | 27.8% | 105.0% |
| 8 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 25.8% | 3.7% |
| 9 | CF | CF Industries | 18.1% | 76.2% |
| 10 | DELL | Dell Technologies | 17.7% | 328.0% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TPR | Tapestry | -27.3% | -7.1% |
| 2 | COHR | Coherent | -20.4% | 63.6% |
| 3 | NCLH | Norwegian Cruise Line | -20.1% | -31.0% |
| 4 | CCL | Carnival Corporation | -20.0% | -22.8% |
| 5 | TJX | TJX Companies | -19.9% | -15.3% |
| 6 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | -19.7% | -50.3% |
| 7 | SYK | Stryker | -18.5% | -20.9% |
| 8 | HWM | Howmet Aerospace | -17.9% | 13.1% |
| 9 | LUV | Southwest Airlines | -17.4% | -5.2% |
| 10 | RCL | Royal Caribbean | -17.3% | -4.2% |
A big move is the start of your homework, not the end.
The weekly and monthly lists shown earlier highlight how trends can form over time. A name appearing on any movers list is simply a signal of heightened attention and risk, never an instruction. The disciplined next step is to look at the business behind the numbers.
For example, the day’s top gainer, Lumentum (LITE), returned +11.0%. A check of its fundamentals shows its revenue grew 83.2% over the last twelve months. This is the kind of context that gives a daily move meaning.
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.
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.