Insight Guru Inc.
07/08/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/08/2026 03:43
S&P 500 Movers | Winners: CTSH, OXY, CBOE | Losers: INTC, TER, GNRC
A sharp divergence in technology names defined a day of modest losses for the broader market, raising questions about which moves have staying power.
Intel (INTC) was the weakest S&P 500 stock of the day, returning -9.7% as the technology-heavy Nasdaq-100 returned -1.8%. The broader S&P 500 returned a more modest -0.4%. The day's biggest winner was also a technology name, Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), which returned +6.2%.
This raises a central question for any investor scanning the day's extremes: how much of this action is a one-day event, and how much is the continuation of a longer trend? The lists of the day's biggest movers follow.
Tuesday'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 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 6.2% | -46.4% |
| 2 | OXY | Occidental Petroleum | 5.9% | 26.9% |
| 3 | CBOE | Cboe Global Markets | 5.5% | 3.5% |
| 4 | GILD | Gilead Sciences | 5.2% | 12.5% |
| 5 | DVN | Devon Energy | 5.1% | 17.2% |
| 6 | DOW | Dow | 4.8% | 25.2% |
| 7 | APA | APA | 4.7% | 41.3% |
| 8 | COP | ConocoPhillips | 4.7% | 17.6% |
| 9 | GDDY | GoDaddy | 4.3% | -28.0% |
| 10 | IT | Gartner | 4.2% | -44.2% |
Tuesday's S&P 500 Losers
And the 10 stocks with the lowest returns:
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-D Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INTC | Intel | -9.7% | 199.2% |
| 2 | TER | Teradyne | -9.6% | 77.4% |
| 3 | GNRC | Generac | -8.5% | 72.9% |
| 4 | WDC | Western Digital | -7.9% | 209.1% |
| 5 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -7.4% | 171.8% |
| 6 | SNDK | SanDisk | -7.3% | 581.5% |
| 7 | KLAC | KLA | -7.2% | 78.6% |
| 8 | LRCX | Lam Research | -6.9% | 90.9% |
| 9 | AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | -6.5% | 141.0% |
| 10 | GEV | GE Vernova | -6.5% | 65.1% |
Some of today's weakness has been building for weeks.
Not every name on the daily losers list is a new arrival. Marvell Technology (MRVL) appears on both the one-day and one-month lists of underperformers. Its one-month return is -27.1%, showing a persistent negative trend leading into today's results. This contrasts with the day's top performer, Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), which now trades at 9.4 times trailing earnings after its single-day gain.
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 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | 25.4% | 12.8% |
| 2 | WDAY | Workday | 16.2% | -33.1% |
| 3 | PLTR | Palantir Technologies | 16.1% | -24.4% |
| 4 | MRNA | Moderna | 14.4% | 170.5% |
| 5 | ACN | Accenture | 13.9% | -46.3% |
| 6 | AMP | Ameriprise Financial | 13.7% | 4.3% |
| 7 | CTSH | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 13.4% | -46.4% |
| 8 | APD | Air Products and Chemicals | 13.1% | 26.0% |
| 9 | RJF | Raymond James Financial | 12.8% | 5.5% |
| 10 | SCHW | Charles Schwab | 12.6% | 2.7% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-W Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GLW | Corning | -27.5% | 112.4% |
| 2 | TER | Teradyne | -25.9% | 77.4% |
| 3 | KLAC | KLA | -22.2% | 78.6% |
| 4 | SNDK | SanDisk | -21.1% | 581.5% |
| 5 | LRCX | Lam Research | -20.6% | 90.9% |
| 6 | AMAT | Applied Materials | -20.2% | 116.3% |
| 7 | COHR | Coherent | -19.7% | 70.2% |
| 8 | WDC | Western Digital | -18.4% | 209.1% |
| 9 | MU | Micron Technology | -18.1% | 229.0% |
| 10 | LITE | Lumentum | -17.9% | 89.6% |
Movers Over The Last Month
And over the last 21 trading days:
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MRNA | Moderna | 54.6% | 170.5% |
| 2 | TECH | Bio-Techne | 32.8% | 20.4% |
| 3 | GPC | Genuine Parts | 31.9% | 6.8% |
| 4 | HOOD | Robinhood Markets | 27.8% | -0.2% |
| 5 | AXON | Axon Enterprise | 24.8% | 12.8% |
| 6 | KMB | Kimberly-Clark | 23.1% | 16.7% |
| 7 | CRL | Charles River Laboratories International | 23.1% | 14.6% |
| 8 | DASH | DoorDash | 22.3% | -13.6% |
| 9 | UAL | United Airlines | 22.3% | 14.7% |
| # | Ticker | Company Name |
1-M Returns |
YTD Returns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SMCI | Super Micro Computer | -44.0% | -10.3% |
| 2 | ORCL | Oracle | -40.1% | -26.9% |
| 3 | ON | ON Semiconductor | -30.9% | 68.2% |
| 4 | AKAM | Akamai Technologies | -28.1% | 31.1% |
| 5 | FSLR | First Solar | -27.7% | -12.8% |
| 6 | MRVL | Marvell Technology | -27.1% | 171.8% |
| 7 | LITE | Lumentum | -26.0% | 89.6% |
| 8 | COHR | Coherent | -25.5% | 70.2% |
| 9 | SWKS | Skyworks Solutions | -25.2% | -3.8% |
| 10 | QCOM | Qualcomm | -24.6% | 8.1% |
What is the right response to a big move?
A movers list is a map of market attention, not a set of instructions. A sudden, large price change is simply information that something has changed for a company or the market's perception of it. The disciplined next step is not to chase the move, but to investigate the business behind it.
Use the weekly and monthly tables below to see if a move is an isolated event or part of a larger pattern. A single day is noise. A month can begin to reveal a signal worth exploring.
Either side of these lists can be a lead worth following, with the same follow-up question: does the business back the move? For the winners, our Guidance Momentum screen tracks which companies raised their own forward numbers. For the losers, our Buy the Dip screen flags which marked-down names still have the fundamentals to recover.
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 all major indices - the S&P 500, S&P Mid-cap, and Russell 2000. Read the movers daily; trade them rarely.
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