S&P 500 Movers | Winners: TER, HPE, ECHO | Losers: WDC, STX, ACN
On Friday, October 2, the S&P 500 rose 0.7%, the Nasdaq-100 jumped 1.0% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.5%. The S&P 500 is now down 0.3% over five trading days and up 0.7% over the past month.
Gainers outnumbered decliners 296 to 204 within the S&P 500. The day’s best return belonged to Teradyne (TER) (+8.0%) and the worst to Western Digital (WDC) (-10.2%).
Friday’s S&P 500 Winners
The 10 S&P 500 stocks with the highest returns on Friday:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TER | Teradyne | 8.0% | 132.3% |
| 2 | HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 7.4% | 192.1% |
| 3 | ECHO | EchoStar | 6.8% | -13.3% |
| 4 | ON | ON Semiconductor | 6.0% | 56.8% |
| 5 | MPWR | Monolithic Power Systems | 5.8% | 59.6% |
| 6 | COHR | Coherent | 5.6% | 82.6% |
| 7 | NTAP | NetApp | 5.2% | 114.1% |
| 8 | TSLA | Tesla | 4.7% | -17.6% |
| 9 | URI | United Rentals | 4.5% | 34.4% |
| 10 | P | Everpure | 4.5% | n/a |
Friday’s S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 S&P 500 stocks with the lowest returns on Friday:
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WDC | Western Digital | -10.2% | 141.3% |
| 2 | STX | Seagate Technology | -10.2% | 209.3% |
| 3 | ACN | Accenture | -6.3% | -23.9% |
| 4 | APP | AppLovin | -4.7% | -60.2% |
| 5 | FDS | FactSet Research Systems | -4.2% | -7.1% |
| 6 | IT | Gartner | -4.1% | -26.7% |
| 7 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | -3.9% | -28.2% |
| 8 | SNDK | SanDisk | -3.8% | 624.6% |
| 9 | NKE | Nike | -3.6% | -45.4% |
| 10 | LDOS | Leidos | -3.5% | -34.1% |
For A Few Names, Friday Extended A Monthly Trend
The 8.0% gain in Teradyne (TER) on Friday was not a one-off: the stock is up 31.5% over the past month, and up 21.8% over the sessions before Friday.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) appears on both the one-day and one-month winners lists. It rose 7.4% on Friday and is up 34.1% over the past month; excluding Friday, it had already gained 24.9% over the other sessions.
Everpure (P) added to a longer run: after Friday’s 4.5% gain, the stock is up 51.6% over the past month, and it was already up 45.1% before Friday.
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 | CCL | Carnival Corporation | 15.8% | -14.3% |
| 2 | LITE | Lumentum | 15.3% | 194.5% |
| 3 | SNPS | Synopsys | 15.1% | 4.3% |
| 4 | RCL | Royal Caribbean | 14.4% | 1.2% |
| 5 | COHR | Coherent | 13.9% | 82.6% |
| 6 | ACN | Accenture | 12.9% | -23.9% |
| 7 | TER | Teradyne | 12.7% | 132.3% |
| 8 | NTAP | NetApp | 12.5% | 114.1% |
| 9 | AMAT | Applied Materials | 11.3% | 110.9% |
| 10 | P | Everpure | 11.2% | n/a |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -23.4% | -60.9% |
| 2 | APP | AppLovin | -13.7% | -60.2% |
| 3 | GPN | Global Payments | -9.4% | 2.3% |
| 4 | WDC | Western Digital | -9.1% | 141.3% |
| 5 | IP | International Paper | -8.7% | -15.9% |
| 6 | QCOM | Qualcomm | -8.5% | 9.8% |
| 7 | MOS | Mosaic | -8.4% | -10.1% |
| 8 | FIS | Fidelity National Information Services | -8.4% | -49.6% |
| 9 | SW | Smurfit WestRock | -8.3% | 13.3% |
| 10 | WY | Weyerhaeuser | -7.7% | -20.0% |
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 | P | Everpure | 51.6% | n/a |
| 2 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 38.7% | 196.0% |
| 3 | HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 34.1% | 192.1% |
| 4 | BE | Bloom Energy | 33.1% | 232.8% |
| 5 | CRWD | CrowdStrike | 32.7% | 130.4% |
| 6 | INTC | Intel | 32.5% | 223.4% |
| 7 | DDOG | Datadog | 32.5% | 103.9% |
| 8 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | 31.9% | 220.9% |
| 9 | TER | Teradyne | 31.5% | 132.3% |
| 10 | ILMN | Illumina | 28.0% | 108.2% |
Losers
| # | Ticker | Company Name | 1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FICO | Fair Isaac | -39.9% | -60.9% |
| 2 | CHTR | Charter Communications | -31.3% | -47.6% |
| 3 | GEN | Gen Digital | -28.3% | -17.9% |
| 4 | MGM | MGM Resorts International | -26.4% | -16.5% |
| 5 | EFX | Equifax | -24.5% | -34.9% |
| 6 | ALB | Albemarle | -23.8% | -25.4% |
| 7 | FIS | Fidelity National Information Services | -21.6% | -49.6% |
| 8 | LULU | Lululemon Athletica | -21.3% | -54.5% |
| 9 | GIS | General Mills | -21.1% | -27.8% |
| 10 | PAYX | Paychex | -20.2% | -8.8% |
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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