S&P 500 Movers | Winners: PNR, FLEX, DELL | Losers: XYL, BA, VLO
The S&P 500 rose 0.6% on Tuesday, October 27, while the Nasdaq-100 climbed 1.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat. Over the past week the S&P 500 is up 0.1%, and over the past month it is up 0.5%.
Decliners outnumbered gainers 258 to 244 within the S&P 500. Pentair (PNR) gained 12.8% to lead the day, while Xylem (XYL) fell 14.2%, the weakest showing.
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Winners
The 10 S&P 500 stocks with the highest returns on Tuesday:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PNR | Pentair | 12.8% | -39.3% |
| 2 | FLEX | FLEX | 8.3% | 38.0% |
| 3 | DELL | Dell Technologies | 7.5% | 303.0% |
| 4 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | 7.3% | 19.9% |
| 5 | BE | Bloom Energy | 7.1% | 151.5% |
| 6 | WDC | Western Digital | 6.9% | 121.3% |
| 7 | CDNS | Cadence Design Systems | 6.5% | 9.8% |
| 8 | COHR | Coherent | 6.5% | 27.8% |
| 9 | ON | ON Semiconductor | 6.2% | 45.3% |
| 10 | MOS | Mosaic | 6.1% | -19.9% |
Tuesday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 S&P 500 stocks with the lowest returns on Tuesday:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | XYL | Xylem | -14.2% | -31.0% |
| 2 | BA | Boeing | -10.7% | -22.5% |
| 3 | VLO | Valero Energy | -9.2% | 141.5% |
| 4 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | -7.4% | 171.2% |
| 5 | PSX | Phillips 66 | -7.0% | 112.5% |
| 6 | ARE | Alexandria Real Estate Equities | -5.9% | -12.8% |
| 7 | WELL | Welltower | -5.8% | 23.5% |
| 8 | HUBB | Hubbell | -5.5% | -1.3% |
| 9 | CSGP | CoStar | -5.0% | -52.4% |
| 10 | BRO | Brown & Brown | -5.0% | -14.6% |
Tuesday’s Extremes Were Mostly Fresh Moves
No stock on Tuesday’s one-day lists appears on the same side of the one-month lists, so the day’s biggest moves were fresh ones rather than extensions of a monthly trend.
Movers Over The Last Week
Widening the window to five trading days, these are the strongest and weakest names in the S&P 500:
Winners
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PNR | Pentair | 18.4% | -39.3% |
| 2 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks | 18.0% | 118.1% |
| 3 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 17.9% | 128.7% |
| 4 | ALLE | Allegion | 15.0% | 14.7% |
| 5 | CRL | Charles River Laboratories International | 13.8% | 79.9% |
| 6 | LMT | Lockheed Martin | 13.5% | 31.1% |
| 7 | URI | United Rentals | 11.3% | 44.4% |
| 8 | TXN | Texas Instruments | 11.2% | 81.1% |
| 9 | AKAM | Akamai Technologies | 11.1% | 14.1% |
| 10 | NDAQ | Nasdaq | 10.1% | 8.5% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | -14.1% | n/a |
| 2 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -13.5% | -59.1% |
| 3 | RDDT | -12.3% | -40.6% | |
| 4 | BA | Boeing | -11.7% | -22.5% |
| 5 | XYL | Xylem | -11.6% | -31.0% |
| 6 | DASH | DoorDash | -11.0% | -24.7% |
| 7 | META | Meta Platforms | -10.7% | -5.8% |
| 8 | VLO | Valero Energy | -10.6% | 141.5% |
| 9 | T | AT&T | -10.6% | -11.7% |
| 10 | CBRE | CBRE | -9.4% | -24.3% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days, the strongest and weakest names in the S&P 500:
Winners
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PTC | PTC | 39.3% | 11.7% |
| 2 | ACN | Accenture | 35.9% | -9.3% |
| 3 | HAS | Hasbro | 32.3% | 47.6% |
| 4 | CCI | Crown Castle | 31.0% | 2.7% |
| 5 | CBOE | Cboe Global Markets | 28.2% | 30.3% |
| 6 | CCL | Carnival Corporation | 25.3% | -7.7% |
| 7 | CDW | CDW | 23.8% | 20.4% |
| 8 | ROP | Roper Technologies | 23.0% | -1.5% |
| 9 | INTU | Intuit | 22.5% | -49.7% |
| 10 | RCL | Royal Caribbean | 22.0% | 7.9% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | STX | Seagate Technology | -27.5% | 143.3% |
| 2 | FLEX | FLEX | -26.3% | 38.0% |
| 3 | SNDK | SanDisk | -23.8% | 449.7% |
| 4 | LRCX | Lam Research | -23.4% | 41.1% |
| 5 | FIX | Comfort Systems USA | -22.3% | 38.3% |
| 6 | TER | Teradyne | -19.3% | 67.4% |
| 7 | INTC | Intel | -19.2% | 154.0% |
| 8 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | -18.8% | -16.4% |
| 9 | KLAC | KLA | -18.8% | 26.9% |
| 10 | AMAT | Applied Materials | -18.7% | 54.6% |
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 S&P 500, the S&P MidCap 400, and the Russell 2000. Let the movers list remind you why diversification exists.