S&P 500 Movers | Winners: AMD, AVGO, ANET | Losers: GPN, SMCI, KDP
On Thursday, November 12, the S&P 500 declined 0.4%, the Nasdaq-100 slipped 0.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4%. Over the past week the S&P 500 is up 3.2%, and over the past month it is down 1.6%.
Within the S&P 500, 122 stocks rose and 379 fell. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) gained 5.9% to lead the day, while Global Payments (GPN) fell 12.0%, the weakest showing.
Thursday’s S&P 500 Winners
The 10 S&P 500 stocks with the highest returns on Thursday:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 5.9% | 173.3% |
| 2 | AVGO | Broadcom | 5.5% | 5.9% |
| 3 | ANET | Arista Networks | 5.1% | 57.7% |
| 4 | P | Everpure | 3.4% | n/a |
| 5 | VLO | Valero Energy | 3.1% | 133.7% |
| 6 | DVN | Devon Energy | 2.8% | 28.6% |
| 7 | CEG | Constellation Energy | 2.8% | -19.7% |
| 8 | SWKS | Skyworks Solutions | 2.7% | 44.9% |
| 9 | MPC | Marathon Petroleum | 2.5% | 156.8% |
| 10 | LYB | LyondellBasell Industries | 2.1% | 52.4% |
Thursday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 S&P 500 stocks with the lowest returns on Thursday:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPN | Global Payments | -12.0% | 15.1% |
| 2 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | -11.3% | -7.8% |
| 3 | KDP | Keurig Dr Pepper | -7.4% | 30.5% |
| 4 | MRNA | Moderna | -7.0% | n/a |
| 5 | FIS | Fidelity National Information Services | -6.1% | -56.0% |
| 6 | UAL | United Airlines | -6.0% | -0.5% |
| 7 | RDDT | -5.8% | -56.7% | |
| 8 | DAL | Delta Air Lines | -5.2% | 26.0% |
| 9 | DVA | DaVita | -5.1% | 53.2% |
| 10 | NEM | Newmont | -4.9% | 13.5% |
Some Of Thursday’s Biggest Moves Were Weeks In The Making
Reddit (RDDT) added to a longer slide: after Thursday’s 5.8% decline, the stock is down 33.0% over the past month, and it was already down 28.9% before Thursday.
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 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 44.7% | 173.3% |
| 2 | COHR | Coherent | 36.7% | 25.7% |
| 3 | ANET | Arista Networks | 29.8% | 57.7% |
| 4 | MPWR | Monolithic Power Systems | 27.9% | 60.5% |
| 5 | CIEN | Ciena | 27.4% | 25.7% |
| 6 | LRCX | Lam Research | 26.2% | 37.0% |
| 7 | AVGO | Broadcom | 25.0% | 5.9% |
| 8 | TER | Teradyne | 24.0% | 36.4% |
| 9 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 23.1% | 93.8% |
| 10 | LITE | Lumentum | 22.6% | 69.5% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | -19.7% | -45.9% |
| 2 | FSLR | First Solar | -12.0% | -34.0% |
| 3 | DVA | DaVita | -10.7% | 53.2% |
| 4 | NVR | NVR | -9.4% | -20.3% |
| 5 | LEN | Lennar | -8.7% | -16.9% |
| 6 | NVDA | NVIDIA | -8.5% | -10.7% |
| 7 | GIS | General Mills | -8.1% | -22.9% |
| 8 | DHI | D.R. Horton | -8.0% | 1.5% |
| 9 | MKC | McCormick | -7.3% | -29.9% |
| 10 | GPN | Global Payments | -7.1% | 15.1% |
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 | APP | AppLovin | 50.2% | -41.6% |
| 2 | FISV | Fiserv | 33.5% | -8.4% |
| 3 | IDXX | IDEXX Laboratories | 31.9% | 3.2% |
| 4 | PNR | Pentair | 31.4% | -33.6% |
| 5 | CLX | Clorox | 29.2% | 12.8% |
| 6 | ROP | Roper Technologies | 28.2% | 8.4% |
| 7 | HAS | Hasbro | 27.3% | 51.5% |
| 8 | CHTR | Charter Communications | 26.2% | -36.5% |
| 9 | SWK | Stanley Black & Decker | 25.2% | 56.8% |
| 10 | GEN | Gen Digital | 24.7% | 10.9% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INTC | Intel | -37.6% | 65.9% |
| 2 | SNDK | SanDisk | -33.2% | 294.9% |
| 3 | RDDT | -33.0% | -56.7% | |
| 4 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -33.0% | 93.8% |
| 5 | DDOG | Datadog | -31.5% | 35.6% |
| 6 | FFIV | F5 | -30.5% | 24.4% |
| 7 | LITE | Lumentum | -30.3% | 69.5% |
| 8 | FTNT | Fortinet | -29.6% | 63.1% |
| 9 | NOW | ServiceNow | -28.1% | -34.3% |
| 10 | DELL | Dell Technologies | -26.8% | 198.0% |
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.
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