What Should I Buy?
Friday, October 2, 2026Research, not advice

The market’s biggest
losers, ranked.

Every name in the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Dow Jones, and Russell 2000, sorted by year-to-date return. Begin at the bottom of the list: the worst performers are where value hunting starts. Each one is scored on how cheap and how high-quality it screens.

Read the leaderboard

S&P 500

Live

Sorted by year-to-date return, worst first. 500 large-cap U.S. companies.

Decliners
237
Advancers
266
Avg YTD
+10.51%

Today’s biggest decliners

1
CTVA-81.25%
Corteva47
2
TTD-68.12%
Trade Desk (The)92
3
FICO-60.85%
Fair Isaac68
503 of 503 shownAs of Oct 1, 2026, 8:01 PM

How the screen works

I

Pull the components

The live membership of each index, by way of its ETF: SPY, QQQ, DIA, and IWM.

II

Rank by year-to-date return

Scored on the move since the first trading day of the year, sorted worst to best.

III

Value the laggards

The biggest decliners get a value score from their fundamentals. Cheap and broken are not the same thing.