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08/04/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/04/2026 00:59
S&P 500 Movers | Winners: FSLR, COHR, LITE | Losers: MAR, FICO, EBAY
A day of broad market gains still produced starkly different outcomes for the biggest movers.
First Solar (FSLR) led the market with a return of +10.3% on a day that saw gains across the major indices. The S&P 500 returned +1.5%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned +1.3%, and the Nasdaq-100 returned +1.8%.
Even with a positive backdrop, the gap between the day's extremes is a reminder that index-level returns mask significant divergence at the stock level. The lists below detail the day's sharpest moves in both directions.
Monday'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 | FSLR | First Solar | 10.3% | -10.9% |
| 2 | COHR | Coherent | 9.6% | 56.1% |
| 3 | LITE | Lumentum | 9.2% | 111.6% |
| 4 | ORCL | Oracle | 9.2% | -26.5% |
| 5 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | 9.1% | 1.4% |
| 6 | BLDR | Builders FirstSource | 9.1% | -29.6% |
| 7 | VRT | Vertiv | 8.9% | 62.4% |
| 8 | ARES | Ares Management | 8.2% | -12.2% |
| 9 | BA | Boeing | 8.0% | 7.5% |
| 10 | BAX | Baxter International | 7.4% | 47.2% |
Monday's S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MAR | Marriott International | -7.0% | 12.2% |
| 2 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -6.9% | -38.2% |
| 3 | EBAY | eBay | -6.0% | 23.7% |
| 4 | MPWR | Monolithic Power Systems | -5.7% | 48.8% |
| 5 | CF | CF Industries | -5.5% | 54.4% |
| 6 | CBOE | Cboe Global Markets | -4.0% | 19.2% |
| 7 | LVS | Las Vegas Sands | -3.9% | -27.0% |
| 8 | MCK | McKesson | -3.4% | 1.0% |
| 9 | CTVA | Corteva | -3.4% | 14.0% |
| 10 | WDC | Western Digital | -3.2% | 206.3% |
One name shows persistent strength across timeframes.
Beneath the daily noise, some moves have durability. Baxter International (BAX) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists. The stock's one-month return is +24.1%. This performance is not a one-day event; excluding today's session, the stock still gained +15.5% over the other sessions in that period.
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 | GRMN | Garmin | 25.7% | 51.5% |
| 2 | MSFT | Microsoft | 25.3% | 1.3% |
| 3 | AMZN | Amazon.com | 22.7% | 23.0% |
| 4 | BAX | Baxter International | 20.4% | 47.2% |
| 5 | DXCM | DexCom | 19.0% | 31.6% |
| 6 | ORCL | Oracle | 18.3% | -26.5% |
| 7 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 17.3% | -32.7% |
| 8 | GOOGL | Alphabet | 14.4% | 19.5% |
| 9 | GEHC | GE HealthCare Technologies | 14.1% | -14.9% |
| 10 | GOOG | Alphabet | 14.1% | 18.9% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LII | Lennox International | -20.5% | -9.9% |
| 2 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -18.4% | -38.2% |
| 3 | NXPI | NXP Semiconductors | -16.3% | 4.2% |
| 4 | CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | -15.7% | -7.9% |
| 5 | CTVA | Corteva | -13.2% | 14.0% |
| 6 | COIN | Coinbase Global | -12.5% | -35.2% |
| 7 | QCOM | Qualcomm | -10.9% | -10.5% |
| 8 | BG | Bunge Global | -10.3% | 19.7% |
| 9 | KLAC | KLA | -10.1% | 50.8% |
| 10 | TXT | Textron | -10.1% | -0.9% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 31.4% | -32.7% |
| 2 | PYPL | PayPal | 27.3% | -0.2% |
| 3 | GRMN | Garmin | 27.0% | 51.5% |
| 4 | MSFT | Microsoft | 24.9% | 1.3% |
| 5 | BAX | Baxter International | 24.1% | 47.2% |
| 6 | HPQ | HP | 23.7% | 25.2% |
| 7 | DXCM | DexCom | 22.5% | 31.6% |
| 8 | ACN | Accenture | 22.1% | -36.6% |
| 9 | WDAY | Workday | 21.9% | -23.2% |
| 10 | HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 21.9% | 111.1% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | -30.9% | 87.0% |
| 2 | SNDK | SanDisk | -26.2% | 442.6% |
| 3 | GLW | Corning | -25.5% | 68.0% |
| 4 | INTC | Intel | -24.4% | 146.6% |
| 5 | LII | Lennox International | -23.7% | -9.9% |
| 6 | APP | AppLovin | -22.9% | -39.7% |
| 7 | CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | -22.6% | -7.9% |
| 8 | KLAC | KLA | -22.4% | 50.8% |
| 9 | IBM | International Business Machines | -21.8% | -22.6% |
| 10 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -21.0% | 128.4% |
A big move is a starting point for research, not a conclusion.
The tables earlier in this report are a map of market attention, not a set of instructions. A large daily or weekly move signals that something has changed in how investors perceive a company's prospects or risks. The disciplined follow-up is to investigate the business behind the ticker. A price change is new information, but it is the beginning of a question, not the final answer.
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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