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09/15/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/15/2026 00:58

Market Movers | Winners: ELMT, RPD, EVCM | Losers: SWMR, MNTK, BAND

A day of sharp individual stock moves offers a different story than the broader market's quiet decline.

Elmet (ELMT) returned +32.8% while the S&P 500 returned -0.5% and the Nasdaq-100 returned -0.8%. That gap between a single stock and the averages is the day's defining feature. It raises a central question: what separates the day's biggest winners and losers from the market's quiet drift? The tables below detail the largest percentage moves.

Monday's Market Winners

The 10 US-listed stocks in the Trefis coverage universe with the highest returns on the last trading day:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 ELMT Elmet 32.8% n/a
2 RPD Rapid7 24.1% -15.9%
3 EVCM EverCommerce 19.8% -37.6%
4 ZS Zscaler 16.5% -14.8%
5 TENB Tenable 16.5% 49.1%
6 NTSK Netskope 15.6% -3.1%
7 RBRK Rubrik 15.6% 31.0%
8 QLYS Qualys 15.1% 30.1%
9 S SentinelOne 14.5% 50.7%
10 TRX TRX Gold 14.2% 40.1%

Monday's Market Losers

And the 10 US-listed stocks in the Trefis coverage universe with the lowest returns:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 SWMR Swarmer -18.8% n/a
2 MNTK Montauk Renewables -16.1% 32.6%
3 BAND Bandwidth -13.9% 217.0%
4 GLW Corning -13.7% 64.9%
5 TER Teradyne -13.3% 70.3%
6 MXL MaxLinear -13.1% 271.7%
7 MTSI MACOM Technology Solutions -12.8% 39.9%
8 COHR Coherent -12.7% 44.4%
9 VIAV Viavi Solutions -12.7% 89.8%
10 SHAZ SharonAI -12.6% n/a

What do the day's biggest movers have in common?

No stock appears on both the one-day and one-month leaderboards on the same side today, so the day's extremes are mostly fresh moves rather than continuations. The action was also concentrated in smaller companies. The day's top gainer, Elmet (ELMT), has a market value of about $610.9 million. The largest decliner, Swarmer (SWMR), has a market value of about $525.3 million.

Movers Over The Last Week

Widening the window to five trading days, these are the strongest and weakest names in the Trefis coverage universe:

Winners

# Ticker Company Name 1-W
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 INDP Indaptus Therapeutics 157.4% 7.9%
2 ACVA ACV Auctions 49.1% 29.8%
3 CMRC Commerce.com 41.6% -11.7%
4 FEIM Frequency Electronics 40.9% 58.8%
5 TTRX Turn Therapeutics 37.2% 241.4%
6 ELMT Elmet 28.1% n/a
7 IRD Opus Genetics 27.8% 197.0%
8 NTSK Netskope 22.0% -3.1%
9 TMS Teamshares 21.7% n/a
10 FSLY Fastly 20.7% 144.2%

Losers

# Ticker Company Name 1-W
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 TTAN ServiceTitan -32.9% -44.6%
2 SGML Sigma Lithium -28.1% -32.4%
3 TBBK Bancorp -24.9% -25.6%
4 ASPI ASP Isotopes -24.0% -40.4%
5 DYN Dyne Therapeutics -23.7% -5.3%
6 OCGN Ocugen -22.1% -21.5%
7 METC Ramaco Resources -22.0% -42.8%
8 ASMB Assembly Biosciences -20.9% -14.8%
9 CNL Collective Mining -20.6% -8.8%
10 RMIX Suncrete -20.5% n/a

Movers Over The Last Month

And over the last 21 trading days, the strongest and weakest names in the Trefis coverage universe:

Winners

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 CYPH Cypherpunk Technologies 298.1% 122.4%
2 INDP Indaptus Therapeutics 196.2% 7.9%
3 MRNA Moderna 130.5% 397.4%
4 CAPR Capricor Therapeutics 109.3% -69.5%
5 ARCT Arcturus Therapeutics 94.5% 149.4%
6 PURR Hyperliquid Strategies 73.8% 232.9%
7 FWDI Forward Industries 67.9% 5.1%
8 CMRC Commerce.com 64.0% -11.7%
9 IRD Opus Genetics 60.5% 197.0%
10 HTFL HeartFlow 59.8% 69.9%

Losers

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 EYPT EyePoint -68.5% -76.7%
2 ALMS Alumis -62.2% -5.5%
3 RARE Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical -48.4% -40.8%
4 CRDO Credo Technology -43.6% 4.3%
5 KRMN Karman -42.6% -52.5%
6 AADX Applied Aerospace & Defense -38.0% n/a
7 BLZE Backblaze -37.2% 175.5%
8 TTAN ServiceTitan -37.0% -44.6%
9 LCID Lucid -35.4% -60.6%
10 BRUN Boost Run -35.4% n/a

So what is the right way to use a movers list?

A large price change is information, not an instruction. It signals that a stock has captured attention and that its risk profile may have changed. The tables earlier show performance over a week and a month, but the same discipline applies to any timeframe. The work is not to chase the return, but to understand the business that produced it. A movers 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 S&P 500, the S&P MidCap 400, and the Russell 2000. Let the movers list remind you why diversification exists.

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