Daily Report – 2026-08-04


S&P 500 Report

Top 10 Contributors


S&P 500: 7736.52 | 📈 Up (1.92%)

Market Structure Score


89/100

Strong Structure
Most internal measures are aligned, supporting a constructive market backdrop.
Market Summary
Executive Summary

Market internals strengthened as participation broadened beyond the largest capitalization stocks, reinforcing the durability of the prevailing advance. Multiple independent internal indicators aligned with this assessment, resulting in a high-conviction market signal.

Market Character

Internal conditions are broadly aligned, indicating a market environment in which participation, leadership, and conviction are reinforcing one another. The Market Structure Score of 89/100 reflects high confidence in this assessment.

Participation

357 of 502 stocks advanced (▲71.1%)
141 stocks declined (▼28.1%)
4 stocks unchanged
Advancers clearly outnumbered Decliners.
Cap-weighted participation confirmed the move.

Overall, participation remained sufficiently broad to confirm today’s advance.

Leadership

Leadership outpaced broader participation, highlighting a disconnect between capitalization-weighted performance and the average constituent.

Risk Assessment

Breadth continues to lag headline index performance. Should these conditions deteriorate further, confidence in the current market assessment would likely weaken.

Outlook

The current backdrop remains constructive. Continued improvement in participation and leadership would strengthen confidence in the prevailing trend, while renewed deterioration in breadth or conviction would argue for a more cautious interpretation.

Bottom Line

The weight of the internal evidence continues to support a broad institutional accumulation market environment with high confidence. While short-term price fluctuations are inevitable, sustained improvement in participation and leadership would reinforce the current assessment, whereas renewed deterioration in market internals would warrant a more defensive interpretation.

Market Signals

▶ ✅ Strong participation across index constituents.

▶ 📈 Cap-weighted leadership confirmed the advance.

▶ 🔍 Leadership remained moderately concentrated.

▶ 🔄 Elevated dispersion suggests healthy sector rotation.

▶ 💪 Individual stock moves carried above-average conviction.

▶ ⚠️ Large-cap leadership outpaced the broader market.

▶ 💹 Winning stocks outperformed losers by a comfortable margin.

▶ ⭐ Performance was boosted by a handful of outsized winners.

Top Contributors (>0.01%)

Ticker Return Contribution Share Impact_Efficiency Rank
NVDA 2.56% 0.21% 8.47% 0.081569 1
AVGO 6.61% 0.20% 8.16% 0.030490 2
PLTR 29.45% 0.15% 5.93% 0.004972 3
AAPL 1.96% 0.14% 5.58% 0.070144 4
MU 7.62% 0.13% 5.30% 0.017208 5
AMD 7.00% 0.09% 3.71% 0.013094 6
INTC 10.84% 0.09% 3.53% 0.008055 7
GOOGL 0.94% 0.06% 2.34% 0.061493 8
MSFT 1.06% 0.05% 2.09% 0.048795 9
LRCX 7.85% 0.05% 2.05% 0.006447 10
SNDK 10.84% 0.04% 1.75% 0.003988 11
CSCO 5.08% 0.04% 1.62% 0.007886 12
CAT 5.60% 0.04% 1.52% 0.006719 13
AMAT 5.48% 0.03% 1.36% 0.006111 14
KLAC 6.95% 0.03% 1.21% 0.004289 15
TSLA 1.64% 0.03% 1.20% 0.018065 16
QCOM 7.32% 0.03% 1.18% 0.003974 17
TXN 5.42% 0.02% 0.93% 0.004256 18
GLW 9.04% 0.02% 0.87% 0.002368 19
PANW 5.53% 0.02% 0.78% 0.003462 20
JPM 1.38% 0.02% 0.72% 0.012866 21
DELL 8.92% 0.02% 0.69% 0.001924 22
IBM 3.91% 0.02% 0.68% 0.004332 23
ORCL 2.74% 0.02% 0.68% 0.006150 24
ADI 5.09% 0.02% 0.66% 0.003217 25

Definitions:

Contribution – The weighted impact of a stock’s return on the overall index move
(weight × return). This reflects how much each stock actually moved the index.

Share – The proportion of total index movement attributable to a given stock.
Higher values indicate outsized influence relative to peers.

Impact Efficiency – The ratio of contribution to return, highlighting how effectively
a stock’s price move translates into index impact (primarily driven by index weight).


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