Deep Dive: Here Are The Biggest Losers Among Dow And S&P 500 Stocks In Mondays Rout

Investors got a rude awakening Monday.

U.S. stocks started the day with declines. And then an acceleration occurred late in the trading day, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -4.60%  eventually closing down 1,175 points, or 4.6%, at 24,346. The S&P 500 Index SPX, -4.10%  tumbled 4.1% to 2,649.

For perspective, it has been only two months (Dec. 8) since the Dow closed at a lower level than it did Monday. Look at this chart:

Despite the 1,000-plus drop in the Dow, it wasn’t the worst day for the index. That honor goes to Oct. 19, 1987, so-called Black Monday, when it plunged 22.6%.

Here’s a summary showing Dow and S&P 500 price changes, with the S&P 500 sectors sorted by how much they fell Monday:

Price change - Feb. 5 Price change - 2018 through Feb. 5 Price change - 2017
Dow Jones Industrial Average -4.6% -1.5% 25.1%
S&P 500 Index -4.1% -0.9% 19.4%
 
S&P 500 sectors:
Financials -5.0% -0.2% 20.0%
Health Care -4.6% 0.4% 20.0%
Industrials -4.5% -1.7% 18.5%
Energy -4.4% -3.8% -3.8%
Telecommunications -4.2% -5.0% -6.0%
Information Technology -4.0% 0.1% 36.9%
Consumer Staples -3.7% -4.5% 10.5%
Consumer Discretionary -3.4% 3.4% 21.2%
Materials -3.4% -3.4% 21.4%
Real Estate -2.7% -7.4% 7.2%
Utilities -1.7% -6.9% 8.3%
Source: FactSet

The Dow is now down 1.5% for 2018, but that follows a gain of 25.1% in 2017. The S&P 500 is now down 0.9% this year, following last year’s 19.4% advance. None of the figures in this article include dividends, by the way.

More perspective — the three-year chart for the S&P 500 features two major temporary pullbacks for the benchmark index in 2015:

From Aug. 17 through Aug. 25, 2015, the benchmark index declined 11%, before recovering and then rising to a new closing high on Nov. 3 of that year. From that high, it bounced around and then decreased 13% through Feb. 12, 2016, before resuming a long upward climb. From Jan. 26, 2018, until Monday, the decline totaled 8%.

The worst sector on Monday was financials, down 5%. It has fallen 0.2% in 2018, following a 20% gain in 2017.

Health care was the second-worst sector Monday, with a 4.6% drop. It’s still up 0.4% for 2018, extending last year’s 20% increase. This pattern doesn’t hold for all the sectors, but it sure does for the broad indices.

Dow summary

All 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell Monday:

Company Ticker Price change - Feb. 5 Price change - 2018 through Feb. 5 Price change - 2017
Boeing Co. BA, -5.74% -5.7% 11.5% 89.4%
Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM, -5.69% -5.7% -4.7% -7.3%
3M Co. MMM, -5.60% -5.6% -1.7% 31.8%
Home Depot Inc. HD, -5.60% -5.6% -3.4% 41.4%
United Technologies Corp. UTX, -5.48% -5.5% -0.3% 16.4%
Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, -5.25% -5.4% 1.1% 26.7%
Pfizer Inc. PFE, -5.30% -5.3% -4.3% 11.5%
Johnson & Johnson JNJ, -5.29% -5.3% -6.7% 21.3%
UnitedHealth Group Inc. UNH, -5.11% -5.1% -0.2% 37.8%
Chevron Corp. CVX, -5.03% -5.0% -10.0% 6.4%
American Express Co. AXP, -4.83% -4.8% -7.4% 34.1%
JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, -4.80% -4.8% 1.7% 23.9%
Verizon Communications Inc. VZ, -4.68% -4.7% -4.6% -0.8%
General Electric Co. GE, -4.67% -4.7% -14.6% -44.8%
Travelers Cos. TRV, -4.35% -4.3% 4.3% 10.8%
DowDuPont Inc. DWDP, -4.30% -4.3% -4.7% 24.5%
Nike Inc. Class B NKE, -4.21% -4.2% 2.9% 23.1%
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS, -4.20% -4.2% -2.2% 6.4%
Walmart Inc. WMT, -4.20% -4.2% 1.4% 42.9%
Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -4.12% -4.1% 2.9% 37.7%
International Business Machines Corp. IBM, -4.09% -4.1% -0.6% -7.6%
Caterpillar Inc. CAT, -4.07% -4.1% -4.1% 69.9%
Coca-Cola Co. KO, -3.94% -3.9% -2.2% 10.7%
Visa Inc. Class A V, -3.84% -3.8% 2.0% 46.1%
Procter & Gamble Co. PG, -3.79% -3.8% -11.8% 9.3%
Merck & Co. MRK, -3.69% -3.7% 0.2% -4.4%
Walt Disney Co. DIS, -3.68% -3.7% -2.6% 3.2%
Intel Corp. INTC, -3.53% -3.5% -3.6% 27.3%
McDonald's Corp. MCD, -3.26% -3.3% -4.8% 41.4%
Apple Inc. AAPL, -2.50% -2.5% -7.5% 46.1%
Source: FactSet
S&P 500 losers

There are actually 505 stocks in the S&P 500, because several companies have two classes of common shares in the index. Monday’s decline was incredibly broad — all but two S&P 500 stocks were down. Shares of Church & Dwight Co. CHD, +2.35%  rose 2.4% to close at $47.42, while TripAdvisor Inc. TRIP, +3.70%  was up 3.7% to close at $35.62.

Here are the 10 worst performers among S&P 500 companies on Monday:

Company Ticker Price change - Feb. 5 Price change - 2018 through Feb. 5 Price change - 2017
Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, -9.22% -9.2% -4.1% 10.1%
Arconic Inc. ARNC, -8.90% -8.9% -2.7% 47.0%
Nvidia Corp. NVDA, -8.49% -8.5% 10.4% 81.3%
Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK, -7.21% -7.2% -22.0% -43.6%
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD, -7.07% -7.1% 12.5% -9.3%
Hess Corp. HES, -6.91% -6.9% -6.3% -23.8%
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. VRTX, -6.68% -6.7% 3.5% 103.4%
Newell Brands Inc. NWL, -6.65% -6.6% -15.5% -30.8%
Qualcomm Inc. QCOM, -6.57% -6.6% -3.6% -1.8%
Amgen Inc. AMGN, -6.56% -6.6% 0.5% 18.9%
Source: FactSet

Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, -9.22% was the worst-performing S&P 500 stock Monday, which may not have been a major surprise after regulators took very unusual actions against the bank.

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