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08/28/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/28/2026 04:24
S&P 500 Movers | Winners: CRM, CRWD, VEEV | Losers: HRL, CASY, TPR
A day of sharp divergences shows some moves were weeks in the making, raising a key question for investors.
The S&P 500 returned +0.7% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned +0.2% and the Nasdaq-100 added +1.4%. The day's most extreme move belonged to Salesforce (CRM), which returned +22.6% in a single session.
But is a single day's lurch a new signal, or just the loudest moment in a story already being told? The names below show the day's extremes.
Thursday'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 | CRM | Salesforce | 22.6% | -4.4% |
| 2 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 20.5% | 94.5% |
| 3 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 15.2% | 26.4% |
| 4 | SNPS | Synopsys | 13.4% | -1.0% |
| 5 | PANW | Palo Alto Networks | 12.8% | 107.8% |
| 6 | FTNT | Fortinet | 9.7% | 117.6% |
| 7 | NVDA | NVIDIA | 8.7% | 22.4% |
| 8 | DDOG | Datadog | 6.7% | 78.6% |
| 9 | ADSK | Autodesk | 6.2% | -8.6% |
| 10 | ADBE | Adobe | 5.7% | -17.4% |
Thursday's S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HRL | Hormel Foods | -10.2% | -6.7% |
| 2 | CASY | Casey's General Stores | -5.4% | 38.4% |
| 3 | TPR | Tapestry | -5.4% | -3.0% |
| 4 | MRNA | Moderna | -4.6% | 384.1% |
| 5 | GNRC | Generac | -4.5% | 44.7% |
| 6 | BBY | Best Buy | -4.4% | 28.4% |
| 7 | LVS | Las Vegas Sands | -4.3% | -30.8% |
| 8 | EXPE | Expedia | -4.2% | 13.2% |
| 9 | DLTR | Dollar Tree | -3.9% | 3.2% |
| 10 | WYNN | Wynn Resorts | -3.7% | -21.6% |
How many of today's moves were weeks in the making?
Salesforce (CRM) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists. Its one-month return is +33.8%, and excluding today it still gained +9.2% over the other sessions. Veeva Systems (VEEV) shows a similar pattern of persistent strength, with a one-month return of +35.7% that includes a +17.8% gain from prior sessions.
On the other side of the ledger, Hormel Foods (HRL) is on both the one-day and one-month losers lists. Its weakness has been building for weeks, as its one-month return of -17.5% includes an -8.1% loss from sessions before today.
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 | CRM | Salesforce | 22.7% | -4.4% |
| 2 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 19.8% | 94.5% |
| 3 | SNPS | Synopsys | 16.8% | -1.0% |
| 4 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 15.4% | -3.0% |
| 5 | FTNT | Fortinet | 14.6% | 117.6% |
| 6 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 12.6% | 26.4% |
| 7 | CDW | 12.1% | 11.1% | |
| 8 | CDNS | Cadence Design Systems | 10.8% | 11.2% |
| 9 | COIN | Coinbase Global | 10.7% | -15.7% |
| 10 | EL | Estee Lauder Companies | 10.5% | 2.1% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HRL | Hormel Foods | -11.6% | -6.7% |
| 2 | CASY | Casey's General Stores | -7.8% | 38.4% |
| 3 | DOW | -7.8% | 32.6% | |
| 4 | SNDK | SanDisk | -7.2% | 525.6% |
| 5 | COO | Cooper Companies | -6.8% | -13.4% |
| 6 | LYB | LyondellBasell Industries | -6.4% | 50.5% |
| 7 | PWR | Quanta Services | -6.1% | 47.4% |
| 8 | WYNN | Wynn Resorts | -6.0% | -21.6% |
| 9 | XOM | ExxonMobil | -5.8% | 32.6% |
| 10 | TKO | -5.7% | -11.1% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 162.0% | 384.1% |
| 2 | LITE | Lumentum | 58.7% | 159.4% |
| 3 | PLTR | Palantir Technologies | 51.2% | 4.6% |
| 4 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | 49.6% | 31.4% |
| 5 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 47.8% | 184.5% |
| 6 | SNDK | SanDisk | 46.2% | 525.6% |
| 7 | NEM | Newmont | 44.8% | 33.1% |
| 8 | PSKY | Paramount Skydance | 35.8% | -18.6% |
| 9 | VEEV | Veeva Systems | 35.7% | 26.4% |
| 10 | CRM | Salesforce | 33.8% | -4.4% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TTD | Trade Desk | -29.7% | -64.6% |
| 2 | DVA | DaVita | -25.8% | 57.5% |
| 3 | APP | AppLovin | -21.7% | -53.6% |
| 4 | HONA | Honeywell Aerospace | -21.7% | n/a |
| 5 | APTV | Aptiv | -21.6% | -40.3% |
| 6 | NCLH | Norwegian Cruise Line | -19.8% | -25.4% |
| 7 | TPR | Tapestry | -17.9% | -3.0% |
| 8 | HRL | Hormel Foods | -17.5% | -6.7% |
| 9 | TJX | TJX Companies | -16.7% | -11.8% |
| 10 | DECK | Deckers Outdoor | -16.6% | -16.7% |
A big move is a question, not an answer.
A movers list is a map of where market attention and risk are concentrated, not a shopping list. The weekly and monthly tables earlier show trends that a single day's list can obscure, revealing which moves have legs and which are just noise.
The disciplined next step is always the same: to look past the percentage change and check the fundamentals of the business behind the ticker. A stock price is not the company, and a day's move is never the full story.
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.
The Tape Rewards Attention. It Punishes Reaction
Big daily moves pull hard at both greed and fear, and acting on either, day after day, is how most portfolios end up trailing the index they were trying to beat.
The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio is built for the opposite reflex: about 30 quality businesses screened for the fundamentals that survive volatile stretches, held with rules instead of reactions. 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. Read the movers daily; trade them rarely.
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