Insight Guru Inc.
08/27/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/27/2026 05:09
Market Movers | Winners: ANF, GTN-A, CAPR | Losers: GENB, EMAT, SYRE
Beneath a quiet surface for the major averages, a handful of stocks made extreme moves in both directions.
The S&P 500 returned 0.0% on the last trading day, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned -0.2% and the Nasdaq-100 returned +0.1%. Against that flat tape, Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) was the strongest Market stock of the day, returning +35.7%. How should an investor read such a large, isolated move in a single name when the broader market is still?
Wednesday's Market Winners
The 10 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ANF | Abercrombie & Fitch | 35.7% | 17.4% |
| 2 | GTN-A | Gray Media | 21.1% | -40.6% |
| 3 | CAPR | Capricor Therapeutics | 12.9% | -67.6% |
| 4 | SPTX | Seaport Therapeutics | 12.1% | n/a |
| 5 | WBTN | Webtoon Entertainment | 10.8% | -19.6% |
| 6 | SEDG | SolarEdge Technologies | 10.7% | 14.7% |
| 7 | SMTC | Semtech | 10.4% | 91.1% |
| 8 | URBN | Urban Outfitters | 9.5% | 10.2% |
| 9 | VYX | NCR Voyix | 9.2% | -12.9% |
| 10 | BDSX | Biodesix | 9.0% | 350.0% |
Wednesday's Market Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GENB | Generate Biomedicines | -20.8% | n/a |
| 2 | EMAT | Evolution Metals & Technologies | -14.7% | n/a |
| 3 | SYRE | Spyre Therapeutics | -12.8% | 185.7% |
| 4 | DY | Dycom Industries | -11.6% | -8.0% |
| 5 | ABTC | American Bitcoin | -11.5% | -67.9% |
| 6 | FIGR | Figure Technology Solutions | -9.9% | -9.2% |
| 7 | CLYM | Climb Bio | -9.9% | 302.0% |
| 8 | MNRO | Monro | -9.7% | -33.7% |
| 9 | QBTS | D-Wave Quantum | -9.5% | -33.0% |
| 10 | AIBZ | Bitzero | -9.4% | n/a |
Are these big moves part of a longer trend?
The data shows the day's extremes are mostly fresh moves rather than continuations. No stock appears on both the one-day and one-month leaderboards on the same side today. The day's top gainer, Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), now trades at 13.5 times trailing earnings after its move. The company's revenue grew 5.1% over the last twelve months.
Movers Over The Last Week
Widening the window to five trading days, these are the strongest and weakest Market names:
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ARCT | Arcturus Therapeutics | 54.0% | 158.2% |
| 2 | CYPH | Cypherpunk Technologies | 52.3% | 40.5% |
| 3 | ANF | Abercrombie & Fitch | 40.1% | 17.4% |
| 4 | TRON | 32.7% | 73.4% | |
| 5 | TMC | TMC The Metals | 26.2% | -18.8% |
| 6 | GTN-A | Gray Media | 25.6% | -40.6% |
| 7 | OPTU | Optimum Communications | 25.5% | -34.5% |
| 8 | INBX | Inhibrx Biosciences | 23.5% | 58.7% |
| 9 | MRVI | Maravai LifeSciences | 23.3% | 173.8% |
| 10 | PURR | Hyperliquid Strategies | 23.1% | 224.7% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DKS | Dick's Sporting Goods | -32.2% | -33.7% |
| 2 | DY | Dycom Industries | -22.8% | -8.0% |
| 3 | RGNX | Regenxbio | -22.0% | -34.9% |
| 4 | AAP | Advance Auto Parts | -21.6% | 13.8% |
| 5 | EYPT | EyePoint | -20.8% | -72.7% |
| 6 | AEVA | Aeva Technologies | -20.2% | 18.9% |
| 7 | SWMR | Swarmer | -18.0% | n/a |
| 8 | BETA | BETA Technologies | -17.7% | -22.9% |
| 9 | BW | Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises | -17.3% | 18.8% |
| 10 | AADX | Applied Aerospace & Defense | -17.2% | n/a |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | REPL | Replimune | 196.8% | 63.4% |
| 2 | ARCT | Arcturus Therapeutics | 175.3% | 158.2% |
| 3 | MRNA | Moderna | 168.2% | 407.5% |
| 4 | CYPH | Cypherpunk Technologies | 165.4% | 40.5% |
| 5 | OABI | OmniAb | 144.2% | 160.0% |
| 6 | ABCL | AbCellera Biologics | 131.4% | 257.9% |
| 7 | RCEL | AVITA Medical | 129.7% | 207.0% |
| 8 | LIFE | Ethos Technologies | 108.0% | n/a |
| 9 | QMCO | Quantum | 105.8% | 259.8% |
| 10 | HTFL | HeartFlow | 91.2% | 67.9% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EYPT | EyePoint | -58.3% | -72.7% |
| 2 | BIOA | Bioage Labs | -55.1% | -25.6% |
| 3 | TDUP | ThredUp | -53.3% | -57.0% |
| 4 | AHCO | AdaptHealth | -49.5% | -43.1% |
| 5 | YSS | York Space Systems | -48.7% | n/a |
| 6 | UTI | Universal Technical Institute | -43.4% | -15.3% |
| 7 | LMB | Limbach | -41.5% | -45.5% |
| 8 | ARKO | -41.5% | 4.5% | |
| 9 | PLTK | Playtika | -39.4% | -39.0% |
| 10 | LINC | Lincoln Educational Services | -39.1% | 6.0% |
So what is the right way to use these lists?
The leaderboards shown earlier are a map of market attention, not a set of instructions. A large, sudden price change is new information, signaling a shift in how the market perceives a company's risk or opportunity. The disciplined next step is always the same: to investigate the business behind the ticker. A name on the list is the beginning of a question, never the end of one.
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.
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 three major indices - the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Let the movers list remind you why diversification exists.
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