Trending Stocks

The most active US equities this week, ranked by unusual volume and price action.

AI ANALYSES TRENDING STOCKS MOMENTUM STOCKS GROWTH UNDERVALUED DIVIDEND ETF

#	Ticker	Company	Sector	Trend Score	Signal*	Volume	Catalyst	Regime	Conf
1	TEAM	Atlassian Corp.	Technology	96	+29 to +30% (Aug 7, FQ4 beat)	n/v	EARNINGS	HOT	High
2	TWLO	Twilio Inc.	Technology	94	+17% premkt (Aug 7, FY guide raised)	n/v	EARNINGS	HOT	Med
3	MCHP	Microchip Technology	Semiconductors	93	+14% (Aug 6, rev +38% YoY)	n/v	EARNINGS	HOT	High
4	PAYC	Paycom Software	Technology	90	+15% premkt (Aug 6, beat+raise)	n/v	EARNINGS	HOT	Med
5	NVDA	NVIDIA Corp.	Semiconductors	89	+10%+ (week, SOXX +7%)	n/v	SECTOR	HOT	High
6	SPCX	SpaceX	Industrials	87	~+14% (Aug 5, first earnings)	n/v	EARNINGS	NEUTRAL	Med
7	U	Unity Software	Technology	85	+13.3% (Aug 6, Q2 beat)	n/v	EARNINGS	HOT	High
8	WPP	WPP plc	Comm. Services	83	+24% (Aug 5, H1 beat)	n/v	EARNINGS	NEUTRAL	Med
9	HTZ	Hertz Global Holdings	Cons. Discret.	82	+11.5% (Aug 6, Q2 beat)	n/v	EARNINGS	NEUTRAL	High
10	AKAM	Akamai Technologies	Technology	80	+8% (Aug 7, Q2 beat)	n/v	EARNINGS	HOT	High
11	ABNB	Airbnb Inc.	Cons. Discret.	78	+7% (Aug 6, EPS $1.37 vs $1.25)	n/v	EARNINGS	NEUTRAL	High
12	SOUN	SoundHound AI	Technology	76	Q2 beat, FY guide $230-260M	n/v	EARNINGS	NEUTRAL	Med
13	DEO	Diageo plc	Consumer Staples	74	+6% premkt (Aug 6, $1.2B savings plan)	n/v	NEWS	NEUTRAL	Med
14	TIGO	Millicom Intl. Cellular	Comm. Services	72	Q2 results + long-range plan	n/v	NEWS	NEUTRAL	Med
15	PRAX	Praxis Precision Medicines	Healthcare	70	Q2 + FDA progress, PT hikes	n/v	NEWS	NEUTRAL	Med

Top 3 Trend Picks — Best Convergence

MCHP

Score 93 · EARNINGS · Semiconductors HOT

The best convergence in the screen, because it is the only top mover with same-week sector confirmation. Q1 FY27 on 6 August: revenue $1.48B, +38% year over year, adjusted EPS $0.76 versus $0.70, and Q3 guidance of $1.60B against a $1.55B estimate — shares rose roughly 14%. Critically, the semiconductor complex rose more than 7% the same week, so this is a company beat inside a rising sector rather than an isolated pop. Key risk: leverage stays elevated, and several banks trimmed price targets even while keeping positive ratings.

+14% (1-day)Rev +38% YoYSOXX +7% wk

TWLO

Score 94 · EARNINGS · Software HOT

The cleanest guidance story of the week. Twilio raised its full-year revenue growth outlook to 18–18.5% from 14–15% — against an analyst forecast near 14.8% — and guided Q3 to $1.51–1.52B on adjusted EPS of $1.42–1.47, both above the LSEG consensus. Shares surged more than 17% premarket. A raise of that magnitude changes the forward revenue base, not just one quarter. Key risk: the figure cited is a premarket quote; confirm the closing move before treating the magnitude as final.

+17% premktFY growth 15% to 18%Premarket quote

TEAM

Score 96 · EARNINGS · Software HOT

The largest single move in the screen: Atlassian climbed roughly 29–30% after beating consensus on both revenue and earnings for fiscal Q4, with Q1 revenue guidance above expectations. The caveat is real and worth stating plainly: full-year revenue growth guidance of 13% came in below the 13.4% expectation. The market chose to reward the quarter and the near-term guide over the softer full-year figure — a judgement that could be revisited. Ranked first on magnitude and catalyst clarity, not on an unblemished print.

+29-30%Q1 guide aboveFY guide light

Macro Regime — The Economy Lost Jobs and the Market Set a Record

A negative payrolls print cut the hike odds, and trending names are now riding a rate-path trade. The regime inverted on one data point. The economy lost 23,000 jobs in July against expectations near 86,000, with May and June revised down a combined 103,000. Unemployment fell to 4.1% only because 264,000 people left the labour force, pushing participation to 61.4%, a five-year low.

Markets read that as removing the Fed’s cover to tighten. September hike odds fell from 55% to 44%, and long-duration growth re-rated immediately — which is why this week’s trending list is dominated by software and semiconductors rather than the old-economy earnings beats that led the prior edition. Earnings underneath were genuinely strong: with 88% of the S&P 500 reported, 86% beat EPS estimates, the highest rate since Q2 2021, and the index closed at a record 7,757.64, up 3.6% on the week.

One genuine counter-signal is worth holding: Challenger reported July job cuts of 33,429, down 27% from June and 46% below a year earlier. Layoffs are not accelerating, which sits awkwardly beside a negative payrolls print.

Sector Regime Classification

Sector	Regime	Key driver
Software / SaaS	HOT (sector-wide)	The week’s dominant lane: Atlassian +29–30%, Twilio +17%, Paycom +15%, Unity +13.3%, Akamai +8% — five independent beats in the same sector in the same week. Lower expected rates lift long-duration software valuations directly.
Semiconductors	HOT (snapback)	The semiconductor complex rose more than 7% and Nvidia gained over 10% on the week; Microchip added roughly 14% on its own beat. Qualifier: the chip index had fallen about 15% since 1 July, and many names remain down 40–50% year to date.
Precious Metals / Miners	HOT	Gold rallied four straight sessions to a seven-week high, posting its biggest one-day gain since February midweek and settling near $4,399.70, up 2.33% on Friday. Miners were the top-performing industry group of the week.
Travel / Consumer Services	NEUTRAL	Airbnb +7% on an EPS and revenue beat, Hertz +11.5% on a Q2 beat — genuine company results, but no same-week sector-wide confirmation.
Aerospace / Space	NEUTRAL (event-driven)	SpaceX closed nearly 14% higher on its first earnings report since going public — but its first share lockup expired the same week, with more than 900 million shares eligible to enter the market.
Energy	COLD (inverted)	From the prior edition’s strongest sector to this week’s weakest, down over 2%, as crude fell on White House signals of a possible Iran agreement to increase Strait of Hormuz traffic. Chevron −5%; independent producers −7 to −8%. No deal has been announced.
Mortgage / Housing Finance	COLD (severe)	UWM Holdings fell nearly 25% after missing earnings expectations and suspending its quarterly dividend — the sharpest single decline in this universe.

Change Log

Defining pattern: The prior edition’s dividing line was revenue-legible AI capex versus capex without a meter. This week the dividing line moved up a level to duration. A negative payrolls print cut September hike odds from 55% to 44%, and the names that rallied were overwhelmingly the longest-duration assets in the market. The rally was driven by the discount rate, not by a change in the earnings picture.

Biggest movers up (verified): Atlassian +29–30% (7 Aug, FQ4 beat) · Twilio +17% premarket (7 Aug, FY growth guide raised to 18–18.5%) · Paycom +15% premarket (6 Aug, Q2 beat and raised outlook) · Microchip roughly +14% (6 Aug, revenue +38% YoY and guidance above consensus) · SpaceX roughly +14% close (5 Aug, first earnings since IPO) · Unity +13.3% (6 Aug, Q2 beat) · Hertz +11.5% (6 Aug, Q2 beat) · Nvidia +10%+ on the week · Akamai +8% (7 Aug, Q2 beat) · Airbnb roughly +7% (6 Aug, EPS $1.37 versus $1.25) · Diageo +6% premarket (6 Aug, $1.2B three-year savings plan).

Biggest movers down (see exclusions): UWM Holdings roughly −25% (6 Aug, earnings miss and dividend suspension) · Chevron roughly −5% and independent producers −7 to −8% on the energy inversion · Wendy’s −2% (7 Aug, global sales −6%, withdrew 2026 outlook) · Amazon −2% (4 Aug, Bezos filed to sell roughly $4B of shares, a day after topping a $3 trillion market cap for the first time).

Rotation signal: The prior edition’s list was split between hyperscalers and old-economy beats in industrials, staples and refiners. That second lane emptied out this week — refining names disappeared from the leaderboard entirely as energy inverted to the weakest sector, and consumer staples produced only a savings-plan story rather than a growth one. What replaced it is a single concentrated lane: long-duration software plus semiconductors. When one factor explains most of a leaderboard, the leaderboard is fragile to that factor.

Next gate: Inflation data lands next week and is by broad consensus the deciding input for September; inflation remains at 3.5%, well above target, even as hiring contracts. Super Micro and Applied Materials report in the same window — the two direct tests of whether the semiconductor snapback has fundamental support beyond positioning.

Signal Quality Engine

Ticker	Signal quality	Flag
MCHP · TEAM · U · HTZ · ABNB · AKAM · NVDA	STRONG	Verified single-session or weekly moves tied to specific, dated, confirmed catalysts with corroborating figures across independent sources.
TWLO · PAYC · DEO	MODERATE	Catalysts fully verified — guidance raise, Q2 beat, savings plan — but the percentage figures cited are premarket quotes rather than confirmed closes; magnitude may differ at the bell.
SPCX	MODERATE	First earnings since the IPO is a genuine, dated catalyst, but the first share lockup expired the same week with more than 900 million shares eligible to enter the market — an unusually large offsetting supply event.
WPP · SOUN · TIGO · PRAX	CAUTION	Verified moves, but each carries a specific offset: WPP’s like-for-like revenue still fell 4.7%; SoundHound drew a price-target trim alongside its raise; Millicom’s move partly reflects acquisition speculation rather than results; Praxis rests on regulatory progress, not revenue.
FSLR · ENPH · RUN · DQ	CAUTION — not ranked	A real, dated policy catalyst (price floors and a 15% tariff on polysilicon products) lifted US solar names, but no individual verified percentage move was available — referenced here rather than ranked without a figure.

Rotation Intelligence

Capital flowing in

Long-duration software: five independent beats in one week — Atlassian, Twilio, Paycom, Unity, Akamai. Lower expected rates lift software valuations mechanically, and this group had the earnings to justify the flow.

Semiconductors: the complex rose more than 7% with Nvidia up over 10% and Microchip adding roughly 14% on its own print — a snapback with at least one genuine fundamental anchor underneath it.

Gold and miners: four straight up sessions to a seven-week high, with miners the top industry group. Falling hike odds cut the opportunity cost of a non-yielding asset.

Capital flowing out

Energy: a complete inversion from the prior edition — the strongest sector became the weakest as crude fell on Iran-deal speculation. Chevron −5%, independents −7 to −8%. The move rests on an expectation, not a signed agreement.

Mortgage and housing finance: UWM Holdings −25% on an earnings miss and a suspended dividend — a reminder that a lower rate path does not rescue every rate-sensitive business.

Old-economy earnings beats: the refiners, industrials and staples that shared the leaderboard last edition are largely absent this week — not because they reported badly, but because capital concentrated in duration.

Exclusions

Ticker	Reason excluded
UWMC	Roughly −25% on 6 August on an earnings miss and suspended quarterly dividend — the week’s sharpest decline in this universe.
CVX	Roughly −5% as energy inverted to the weakest S&P sector on Iran-deal speculation.
WEN	−2% on 7 August: global sales −6%, US −8.2%, and the 2026 outlook withdrawn despite beating on EPS and revenue.
AMZN	−2% on 4 August after Bezos filed to sell roughly $4B of shares — excluded as a supply event, not a trend. The company had topped a $3 trillion market cap for the first time a day earlier.
LYFT	Beat on Q2 revenue at $1.84B but shares were only marginally higher — fails the magnitude floor.
QSR	Beat on EPS at $1.07 versus $1.03 with 8.5% Burger King same-store growth, but shares traded near flat — no price confirmation.
APLD · BN	Screened and rejected: the large percentage moves circulating for these names trace to a 2025-dated article and a stock-split adjustment respectively — neither is a current-week catalyst.

Confidence Footnotes

* Signal — every figure is event-labelled, dated and web-sourced. Premarket quotes are labelled premkt and never presented as closing moves; single-session and weekly figures are distinguished explicitly.

Volume — no verified volume-surge data was available for individual names this period. All volume cells are marked n/v and contribute nothing to the score, consistent with the anti-hallucination rule.

Payrolls consensus — sources cite the July expectation as roughly 83,000 to 86,000 depending on the survey. The miss is unambiguous either way; the range is disclosed rather than reduced to a single number.

TEAM — ranked first on magnitude, but full-year revenue growth guidance of 13% came in below the 13.4% consensus. A move this size on a mixed guide is worth watching for a partial give-back.

SPCX — Med confidence. The earnings catalyst is real, but a 900 million-plus share lockup expiry landing the same week is an unusually large offsetting supply event for a newly public name.

Regime marked NEUTRAL for HTZ, ABNB, DEO, WPP, SOUN, TIGO and PRAX: each is a well-verified company-specific catalyst without independent same-week sector-wide confirmation. Software, semiconductors and precious metals cleared that bar; these did not.

Key risk across the list — this leaderboard is concentrated in one factor: duration. The next inflation print is the single event most capable of resetting every name on it at once.

What this run shows

This trending stocks screener ranks the most active US equities of the week by verified catalyst rather than by raw price change. A move only qualifies when a specific, dated event sits underneath it — an earnings beat, a guidance raise, a policy decision — and the ESEN Trend Score weights catalyst strength, move magnitude, sector participation and signal reliability rather than treating every percentage gain as equal evidence.

The week of 3–7 August produced an unusually concentrated leaderboard. Atlassian (TEAM) tops it at roughly +29 to +30% on a fiscal Q4 beat, with Twilio (TWLO) at +17% premarket after lifting full-year growth guidance to 18–18.5% from 14–15%, and Microchip (MCHP) at +14% on revenue of $1.48B, up 38% year over year. Twelve of the fifteen ranked names carry an EARNINGS catalyst, and five of them sit in software.

The change log records what left rather than what arrived: the refining and industrial names that shared the prior edition’s leaderboard are gone entirely, as energy inverted from the strongest S&P sector to the weakest on Iran-deal speculation. Volume confirmation was unavailable this period and every volume cell reads n/v rather than an estimate. This screener is a systematic starting point for research and shortlisting, not a recommendation to act — and a leaderboard this concentrated in one factor is fragile to that factor.

Updated 13 August 2026 · Price and catalyst data verified through the 7 August 2026 close · 15 ranked names

What does the ESEN trend score measure?

It combines four inputs rather than ranking on price change alone: the strength and verifiability of the catalyst, the magnitude of the move, whether the stock’s sector participated in the same week, and the reliability of the underlying figures. A large move with no dated catalyst behind it scores lower than a smaller move backed by a confirmed earnings beat.

What is the difference between a HOT and a NEUTRAL regime tag?

HOT means the stock’s sector moved with it in the same week, so the advance has independent confirmation beyond the single name. NEUTRAL means the catalyst is genuine and verified but isolated — the sector did not participate. Company-specific results earn a place on the list; only sector participation earns a HOT tag.

Why do some rows show n/v in the volume column?

Because no verified volume-surge figure was available for that name during the period. The screener never estimates a volume number to fill a cell. Unverified inputs are marked n/v and contribute nothing to the score, which keeps the ranking honest about what was actually measured rather than inferred.

Why are premarket moves marked separately from closing moves?

A premarket quote can differ substantially from where a stock finishes the session. Names whose cited percentage comes from premarket trading are labelled premkt and capped at Med confidence until a confirmed close is available. Twilio and Paycom are the current examples: verified catalysts, unconfirmed magnitudes.

Why would a stock with a large gain still be excluded?

Because the move fails a hard filter rather than a scoring threshold. Common reasons are a supply event rather than a trend, a withdrawn outlook, a move traced to stale or non-comparable news, or a beat that produced no price confirmation. Each exclusion is listed with its specific reason rather than dropped silently.

How often is this trending screen updated?

The screen is rebuilt weekly and each run is compared against the previous one in the change log, so entries, exits and rotation shifts are visible rather than silent. Catalyst-driven moves age quickly, which is why the verification date is published alongside every run.

Data sources: CNBC · TheStreet · Charles Schwab Market Update · FactSet Earnings Insight (7 August 2026) · Yahoo Finance · Bloomberg · Reuters · StockStory · Zacks Equity Research · Challenger, Gray & Christmas (July job-cut report) · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · CME FedWatch.
Methodology: multi-signal convergence — catalyst verification, price confirmation and sector participation. Returns are timeframe-labelled explicitly (single-session, premarket or weekly); volume is marked n/v where unverified. The Trend Score weights catalyst strength, magnitude, sector breadth and signal reliability. Names whose magnitude could not be verified, or whose large quoted moves trace to stale or non-comparable events, are referenced or excluded rather than ranked on an unverified figure.
Data freshness: price and catalyst data verified through the 7 August 2026 close; published 13 August 2026. Market data moves continuously — confirm live values before any action.

For informational and educational purposes only. This is a systematic data output, not investment advice. ESEN Analytics Systems is a research and analytics SaaS platform.