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07/31/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/31/2026 03:33

Market Movers | Winners: CYCU, GCTK, KSCP | Losers: MGRX, CCB, YYAI

Extreme moves in smaller names marked a day of broad index gains, raising questions about the quality of market leadership.

The day's biggest winner, Cycurion (CYCU), returned +495.9%. This move occurred in a company with a market value of about $7.3 million and revenue that declined 16.5% over the last twelve months. That contrast frames the central question for any disciplined investor looking at today's tape.

The backdrop was broadly positive, with the S&P 500 returning +1.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average returning +1.2%, and the Nasdaq-100 returning +3.4%. The day's extremes, however, tell a more specific story.

Thursday's Market Winners

The 8 stocks with the highest returns on the last trading day:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 CYCU Cycurion 495.9% -41.7%
2 GCTK GlucoTrack 173.7% -79.8%
3 KSCP Knightscope 44.2% -46.4%
4 CMCO Columbus McKinnon 41.5% 20.8%
5 RACC Research Alliance Corporation III 32.7% n/a
6 XRX Xerox 32.2% 51.4%
7 FCEL FuelCell Energy 30.6% 223.1%
8 FRVO Fervo Energy 30.6% n/a

Thursday's Market Losers

And the 9 stocks with the lowest returns:

# Ticker Company Name 1-D
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 MGRX Mangoceuticals -46.9% -60.3%
2 CCB Coastal Financial -43.5% -65.2%
3 YYAI Airwa -41.4% -99.5%
4 INO Inovio Pharmaceuticals -36.9% -62.3%
5 CAPR Capricor Therapeutics -36.2% -85.5%
6 GV Visionary -34.3% -88.0%
7 GBFH GBank Financial -30.0% -38.0%
8 TDOC Teladoc Health -28.3% -6.0%
9 ALNY Alnylam Pharmaceuticals -28.3% -48.3%

Some of today's losses have been building for weeks.

The daily losers list is not entirely a collection of fresh moves. Airwa (YYAI) and Capricor Therapeutics (CAPR) appear on both the one-day and one-month lists. Airwa's one-month return is -97.7%, and it had already lost 96.2% in the preceding sessions. Similarly, Capricor's one-month return is -82.6%, and it had lost 72.7% before today's trading.

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 CYCU Cycurion 348.5% -41.7%
2 LVWR LiveWire 167.5% -53.4%
3 GCTK GlucoTrack 149.8% -79.8%
4 RACC Research Alliance Corporation III 98.7% n/a
5 CNET ZW Data Action Technologies 89.0% 26.5%
6 NCRA Nocera 57.6% -90.7%
7 TVGN Tevogen Bio 52.4% -59.4%
# Ticker Company Name 1-W
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 YYAI Airwa -98.1% -99.5%
2 CAPR Capricor Therapeutics -78.9% -85.5%
3 IMC IMC Rare Earths -67.5% -67.5%
4 MPLT MapLight Therapeutics -60.2% -20.1%
5 SDST Stardust Power -56.2% -76.0%
6 LSTA Lisata Therapeutics -51.4% -44.6%
7 DAIC CID Holdco -51.2% -99.8%
8 MBRX Moleculin Biotech -51.0% -69.2%
9 ZONE CleanCore Solutions -50.3% 33.8%

Movers Over The Last Month

And over the last 21 trading days:

# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 LIME Neutron 3109.3% 3109.3%
2 BRKH Burtech Acquisition II 620.3% 409.7%
3 FBRX Forte Biosciences 262.3% 182.3%
4 NXTC NextCure 214.4% -64.6%
# Ticker Company Name 1-M
Returns
YTD
Returns
1 YYAI Airwa -97.7% -99.5%
2 LESL Leslies -91.4% -47.4%
3 CAPR Capricor Therapeutics -82.6% -85.5%
4 CAST FreeCast -80.4% n/a
5 YHC LQR House -75.6% -97.9%
6 IPW iPower -73.4% -99.1%
7 SRXH SRX Global -72.2% -88.9%
8 BURU Nuburu -71.5% -95.4%

A large price move is a question, not a conclusion.

The tables presented earlier are a map of where market attention and capital risk are flowing, not a set of instructions. A stock appearing on a winners or losers list is simply information. The disciplined follow-up is always the same: to check the fundamentals of the business behind the ticker. A large percentage move, as the day's data shows, does not by itself signal a healthy enterprise.

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.

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.

That is the case for owning a disciplined basket instead of chasing the tape. The Trefis High Quality (HQ) Portfolio holds roughly 30 businesses selected for consistent cash generation, strong margins, and resilient balance sheets, sized and rebalanced with rules. 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. Watch the movers for information; let the portfolio do the compounding.

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