Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Stocktwits Top 25 Newsletter for Week 44 of 2021.
The Stocktwits Top 25 reports the 25 best-performing stocks in the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and Russell 2000 year to date (YTD), and tracks their performances over time.
Here are your Stocktwits Top 25 Lists for Week 44:
S&P 500
ST Top 25 S&P 500
The ST Top 25 S&P 500 List pulled back for the first time in weeks.
13 of 25 names closed negative.
Seagate Technologies stood out from the pack after gaining 11.75%. $STX is a Winner below.
Oil stocks were weaklings – $FANG fell 3.37%, $OXY descended 4%, and $COP crashed 4.10%.
Two Freshmen made the list. The companies are Seagate Technology and Extra Space Storage.
The Stocktwits Top 25 S&P 500 Momentum Meter dipped 0.59% and the S&P 500 fell 0.31%. The 0.28% difference indicates that the top stocks traded very close to the full index.
Nasdaq-100
The Big Cap Nasdaq 100
The ST Top 25 N100 List remained quite green.
18 names closed positive.
Tesla tumbled 15.44% as the list’s biggest loser. It’s a Sinner below.
Semiconductors stayed strong. $AMD ascended 8.5%, $XLNX rose 7.7%, and $LRCX appeared on the list as a Freshman.
CrowdStrike, Cadence Design Systems, and Lam Research Corp are the list’s Freshmen.
The ST Top 25 Nasdaq 100 Momentum Meter grew 0.66% while the full Nasdaq 100 fell 0.69%. The 1.35% differential shows that the top stocks are outperforming the full-index again.
Russell 2000
Small-Cap Russell 2000
The ST Top 25 R2K List was the life of the party in Week 45.
While only 9 names closed positive, those gainers held their own and pushed the Momentum meter into positive territory.
$SAVA can’t make up its mind. One week it doubles, one week it loses a quarter of its value. It’s on the Sinners list this week.
Big 5 Sporting Goods was the name to own in Week 45. $BGFV blasted 45.18% and entered the list as a Freshman. It’s also the Top Dawg below.
The list’s only Freshman is $BGFV.
The ST Top 25 R2K Momentum Meter sprang 2.89% while the Russell 2000 index lost 1.04%. The 3.93% gap proves the top stocks are far stronger than the full index.
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ST Top 25 TOP DAWG OF THE WEEK 🐶
The ST Top 25 Top Dawg for Week 45, 2021 is #18 R2K – Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp.
Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp blasted onto the ST Top 25 R2K List as a Freshman ranked #18.
$BGFV put up a 45.18% week-gain as the strongest name on any of the three lists. This under-the-radar sporting goods stock is on the up-trend after its earnings beat on Nov 2.
Here’s the link to its full earnings report.
The weekly chart at all-time highs:
$BGFV is up 379% YTD.
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The Winners 📈
△ #24 S&P 500 – Seagate Technology was the strongest name on the ST Top 25 S&P 500 list by far. When most of the names on the list were red, this sucker soared 11.75% and closed at all-time highs.
The gap up on Oct 22 lit a fuse in $STX. Since then, the stock has ripped 24% and closed above the $100 level at $108.12.
Here’s the daily chart:
$STX is up 74% YTD.
△ #4 R2K – Apollo Medical Holdings was marching to the beat of its own drum. The medical company climbed 27.85% and doubled its ranking, moving from #16 to #8 on the ST Top 25 R2K List.
$AMEH beat earnings and sales expectations in its third-quarter earnings report on Nov 4, since then the stock has closed green ⅚ trading sessions.
Link to the full report.
Here’s the powerful weekly chart:
△ #4 N100 – Advanced Micro Devices moved up 8.5% in Week 45 and into the ninth ranking. $AMD was the top-performing stock on the ST Top 25 N100 List.
$AMD ascended 10.15% to new-highs on Monday after releasing the new AMD Instinct™ MI200 series accelerators, the world’s fastest accelerator for high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.
The semiconductor has now closed positive 6 weeks in a row.
$AMD is up 61.26% YTD.
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The Sinners 📉
▼ #15 – N100 – Tesla Inc was the ST Top 25 N100 List’s biggest loser. $TSLA came crashing down 15.44% and into the fifteenth ranking.
$TSLA closed negative 4 days this week amid Elon unloading 10% of his stake in the company.
While this may have been the stock’s worst weekly performance since Mar 2020, it is still up 46% year-to-date and trading above $1,000.
Here’s the daily chart:
▼ #2 R2K – Cassava Sciences slipped 24.3% after reporting third-quarter earnings. Despite the weak performance, $SAVA remains ranked #2 on the ST Top 25 R2K List.
On Wednesday, the biotech company reported wider than expected losses on no revenue. One could see why the stock lost a quarter of its value on that data.
Here’s the full report.
$SAVA is still up 908.8% YTD.