S&P 500 close — Thursday, 21 August 2025

S&P 500 closed down 0.38%

S&P 500 treemap for Thursday, 21 August 2025: each company sized by market capitalisation and coloured by its move that day

S&P 500 movers — August 21, 2025

Of the 500 companies tracked in the S&P 500, 166 rose and 333 fell, with 1 unchanged. Energy led the day at +0.71%, while Consumer Discretionary lagged at -1.09%.

Top gainers · S&P 500

PSKY Paramount Skydance Corporation +14.66%
PKG Packaging Corporation of Americ +6.17%
SW Smurfit WestRock plc +4.15%
HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise Comp +3.71%
NDSN Nordson Corporation +3.00%
SNDK Sandisk Corporation +2.48%
IP International Paper Company +2.17%
FIX Comfort Systems USA, Inc. +1.90%

Top losers · S&P 500

FSLR First Solar, Inc. -6.99%
WMT Walmart Inc. -4.49%
PCG Pacific Gas & Electric Co. -4.49%
EIX Edison International -3.84%
DHR Danaher Corporation -3.55%
IQV IQVIA Holdings, Inc. -3.46%
ALL Allstate Corporation (The) -3.31%
CRL Charles River Laboratories Inte -3.16%

By sector

Energy +0.71%
Materials +0.26%
Communication Services +0.22%
Consumer Staples -0.11%
Financials -0.28%
Industrials -0.34%
Healthcare -0.35%
Technology -0.37%
Real Estate -0.38%
Utilities -0.69%
Consumer Discretionary -1.09%

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