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Market Movers | Winners: LVWR, GOSS, KIDZ | Losers: BIOT, VSTD, YYAI

Market Movers | Winners: LVWR, GOSS, KIDZ | Losers: BIOT, VSTD, YYAI

July 28th, 2026 by Trefis Team
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Against a quiet index backdrop, individual stocks saw extreme moves that demand a closer look.

LiveWire (LVWR) gained +66.4% on a day the broader market barely moved. The S&P 500 finished with a return of +0.0%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added +0.5% and the Nasdaq-100 slipped 0.3%. The contrast between the quiet averages and the volatility in single names raises a critical question: what kind of signal is contained in such a concentrated move?

The day's biggest winners and losers are below.

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Monday's Market Winners

The 9 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns 		YTD
Returns
1 LVWR LiveWire 66.4% -45.0%
2 GOSS Gossamer Bio 46.6% -93.6%
3 KIDZ KIDZ AI 43.6% -99.3%
4 FBRX Forte Biosciences 39.6% 180.5%
5 MTNB Matinas BioPharma 37.5% -43.3%
6 CNET ZW Data Action Technologies 26.1% -26.5%
7 REBN Reborn Coffee 25.1% -16.1%
8 TVGN Tevogen Bio 24.1% -66.4%
9 VGAS Verde Clean Fuels 22.8% -43.7%

Monday's Market Losers

And the 9 stocks with the lowest returns:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns 		YTD
Returns
1 BIOT Instinct Bio Technical Company -82.3% n/a
2 VSTD Vestand -79.7% -91.3%
3 YYAI Airwa -73.5% -90.4%
4 MPLT MapLight Therapeutics -72.9% -43.6%
5 CAPR Capricor Therapeutics -64.5% -75.8%
6 PFSA Profusa -28.7% -99.4%
7 VIVK Vivakor -27.8% -94.7%
8 DCOY Decoy Therapeutics Inc. -25.8% -52.0%
9 ADVB Advanced Biomed -24.3% 146.1%

Some of today's biggest losses were weeks in the making.

The daily lists can obscure a persistent trend. Vestand (VSTD) appears on both the one-day and one-month losers tables, showing its weakness has been building. The stock's one-month return is -90.9%. Even before today's session, it had already lost 55.1% over the other trading days. Capricor Therapeutics (CAPR) shows a similar pattern, with a one-month return of -77.0%. These are not sudden breaks, but continuations of established weakness.

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 LVWR LiveWire 194.7% -45.0%
2 CJMB Callan Jmb 123.1% 143.2%
3 UTZ Utz Brands 89.0% 38.0%
4 ADVB Advanced Biomed 61.3% 146.1%
5 FBRX Forte Biosciences 61.1% 180.5%
6 KIDZ KIDZ AI 46.1% -99.3%
7 TVGN Tevogen Bio 43.2% -66.4%
8 GOSS Gossamer Bio 41.4% -93.6%
# Ticker Company Name 1-W
Returns 		YTD
Returns
1 VSTD Vestand -89.0% -91.3%
2 MPLT MapLight Therapeutics -72.5% -43.6%
3 ATER Aterian -71.2% -48.2%
4 YYAI Airwa -67.1% -90.4%
5 CAPR Capricor Therapeutics -64.1% -75.8%
6 WLFC Willis Lease Finance -63.2% -48.0%
7 LSTA Lisata Therapeutics -59.1% -22.6%
8 LESL Leslies -49.6% -30.3%

Movers Over The Last Month

And over the last 21 trading days:

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns 		YTD
Returns
1 LIME Neutron 3055.8% 3055.8%
2 BRKH Burtech Acquisition II 601.4% 410.8%
3 SHOT RMG ML Sports 578.6% 281.4%
# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns 		YTD
Returns
1 YHC LQR House -98.3% -98.2%
2 VSTD Vestand -90.9% -91.3%
3 LESL Leslies -86.8% -30.3%
4 CAST FreeCast -78.3% n/a
5 CAPR Capricor Therapeutics -77.0% -75.8%
6 VTAK Catheter Precision -76.0% -84.2%
7 VIVK Vivakor -75.1% -94.7%
8 IPW iPower -75.0% -98.9%
9 KALA Kala Bio -73.7% -97.6%

A large move is a starting point for research, not a conclusion.

The tables appearing earlier are a map of market attention and a catalog of repriced risk. They show where capital is flowing and fleeing with the most urgency. But a stock appearing on any of these lists is never an instruction to buy or sell. The disciplined next step is always the same: to investigate the fundamental business behind the ticker. A sharp price change is simply the market telling you where to begin that work.

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.

Every Stock On That List Moved That Much In One Session

The movers list is a daily reminder that the same volatility fills both columns, and nobody knows which side their name lands on next. How much damage any single position could do to your net worth is a question with a precise answer. The Trefis Wealth team computes it for investors professionally, with the same rules-based systematic discipline that runs our High Quality Portfolio. Request a free vulnerability audit of your biggest positions.

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