Check out November's biggest stock market winners (and losers!)

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Yes, November was a very fine month for stocks.

The Standard & Poor's 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both closed at records and had their best monthly performances — 5.7% and 7.5%, respectively — in a year.

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The Nasdaq Composite, up 6.21% for the month, missed a new record close by just 81 points, or 0.4%. The November gain was its best since May.

Here's a bit more to know about the stock market, which many players see heading higher in December and well into 2025.

Related: Key analyst outlines patterns in holiday stock moves

Top S&P 500 winners for November

  • Palantir Class A  (PLTR) , up 61.4%

  • Axon Enterprise  (AAXN) , up 52.77%

  • Tesla  (TSLA) , up 38.15%

  • Texas Pacific Land  (TPL) , up 37.23%

  • Tapestry  (TPR) , up 31.25%

  • EPAM Systems  (EPAM) , up 29.30%

  • Warner Bros Discovery  (WBD) , up 28.91%

  • Vistra (VST) , up 27.91%

  • McKesson  (MCK) , up 25.55%

  • EQT  (EQT) , 24.36%

Bottom 10 S&P 500 losers for November

  • Celanese  (CE) , down 41.88%

  • Monolithic Power Systems  (MPWR) , down 25.24%

  • AES  (AES) , down 20.92%

  • Moderna  (MRNA) , down 20.79%

  • Amentum Holdings AMTM, down 18.12%

  • Enphase Energy  (ENPH) , down 14.08%

  • Target  (TGT) , down 11.82%

  • Amgen  (AMGN) , down 11.65%

  • MarketAxess Holdings  (MKTX) , down 10.62%

  • Regeneron Pharmaceuticals,  (REGN) , down 10.5%

Top 5 Dow stocks in November

  • Walt Disney  (DIS) , up 22.11%

  • Goldman Sachs (GS) , up 17.53%

  • Salesforce  (CRM) , up 13.25%

  • Honeywell Intl  (HON) , up 13.25%

  • Walmart  (WMT) , up 12.87%

Bottom 5 Dow stocks in November

  • McDonald's  (MCD) , up 1.34%

  • Merck & Co  (MRK) , down 0.66%

  • Coca-Cola   (KO) , down 1.88%

  • Johnson & Johnson  (JNJ) , down -3.03%

  • Amgen  (AMGN) , down -11.65%

Related: Nvidia stock extends November gains as investors bet on 2025 AI dominance

Two notes about Tesla

First: Tesla is not among the Dow winners because it is not a Dow stock, even if Tesla ended November with a $1.11 trillion market capitalization. And CEO Elon Musk is evolving into a major player in Washington.

Second: Tesla's first-quarter stock-price decline, caused by worries about falling sales, was 29.3%.

But four of the so-called Magnificent 7 stocks are indeed Dow components: Apple  (AAPL) , Amazon.com  (AMZN) , Microsoft  (MSFT)  and Nvidia  (NVDA) .

The other three Mag 7 components are Tesla, Meta Platforms  (META)  and Google parent Alphabet  (GOOGL)