Monday’s stock-market decline accelerated, and a closer look at the day’s worst performers highlighted painful double-digit year-to-date drops.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA was down as much as 820 points (or 2.4%) late Monday morning, while the benchmark S&P 500 Index SPX dipped as much as 2.9%, the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP fell as much as 3.1% and the Nasdaq-100 Index NDX pulled back as much as 3.1%.
Analysts were saying investors weren’t experiencing a market crash, but rather a pullback related to an expected period of rising interest rates as the Federal Reserve undergoes a policy pivot to fight high inflation.
Analysts at Jefferies had written over the weekend that there were signs the U.S. stock market was nearing a bottom, although they also said it might be a bit early to make that call.
Worst-performing S&P 500 stocks
Among the S&P 500, 91% of stocks were down for the trading session as of 11 a.m. ET on Jan. 24. Here are the 20 worst performers for the day, as of that time:
| Company | Ticker | Price change – Jan. 24 | Price change – 2022 | Decline from 52-week high | Date of 52-week high |
| Moderna Inc. | MRNA | -8.7% | -42.4% | -70.6% | 08/10/2021 |
| Netflix Inc. | NFLX | -8.3% | -39.5% | -48.0% | 11/17/2021 |
| Signature Bank | SBNY | -7.8% | -7.0% | -19.8% | 01/18/2022 |
| Xilinx Inc. | XLNX | -7.2% | -17.8% | -27.4% | 11/30/2021 |
| Enphase Energy Inc. | ENPH | -6.8% | -35.8% | -58.4% | 11/22/2021 |
| Etsy Inc. | ETSY | -6.5% | -36.4% | -54.8% | 11/26/2021 |
| Nvidia Corp. | NVDA | -6.2% | -25.5% | -36.7% | 11/22/2021 |
| SVB Financial Group | SIVB | -6.0% | -19.4% | -28.4% | 11/16/2021 |
| Freeport-McMoRan Inc. | FCX | -6.0% | -7.6% | -16.6% | 01/18/2022 |
| Aptiv PLC | APTV | -5.8% | -20.0% | -27.0% | 11/04/2021 |
| Lincoln National Corp. | LNC | -5.6% | -6.2% | -17.5% | 11/03/2021 |
| Tesla Inc. | TSLA | -5.6% | -15.7% | -28.3% | 11/04/2021 |
| SolarEdge Technologies Inc. | SEDG | -5.5% | -25.8% | -46.6% | 11/22/2021 |
| Advanced Micro Devices Inc. | AMD | -5.4% | -21.9% | -31.7% | 11/30/2021 |
| Wynn Resorts Ltd. | WYNN | -5.3% | -4.6% | -43.6% | 03/15/2021 |
| Twitter Inc. | TWTR | -5.3% | -23.7% | -59.2% | 02/25/2021 |
| Albemarle Corp. | ALB | -5.2% | -13.7% | -30.8% | 11/22/2021 |
| Diamondback Energy Inc. | FANG | -5.2% | 3.8% | -15.1% | 01/18/2022 |
| Ford Motor Co. | F | -5.0% | -5.5% | -24.1% | 01/13/2022 |
| AES Corp. | AES | -4.9% | -10.2% | -24.9% | 02/16/2021 |
| Source: FactSet | |||||
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There are some dramatic year-to-date declines on the table, including 42% for Moderna Inc. MRNA, which was down nearly 9% during late morning trading on Jan. 24. But to the right you can see declines from 52-week intraday highs, and the dates those highs were hit. Once again Moderna tops the group, down nearly 71% from its high on Aug. 10.
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Source: finance.yahoo.com