Best and Worst Performing S&P 500 Stocks Since 2/12

Since its last up day on 2/12, the S&P 500 has lost 8.8% in its ever shrinking market cap. Over that same time period, only 17 stocks (3.4%) in the index have traded higher, and of those only two are up by more than 10 percent.

Below we highlight the only winners over the course of the S&P 500's six-day losing streak. As one would would expect, the majority of the names on the list are from defensive sectors like Telecom Services, Consumer Staples, and Health Care. Additionally, most of them are also on the small side, as Wal-Mart (WMT) is the only stock which has a weight of more than 1% in the index.

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On the downside, there are 31 companies in the S&P 500 that have lost more than 25% of their market value in the last six trading days. Of these, 19 are from the Financial sector. And while names on this list such as C, AIG, WFC, GM, BAC, etc. used to be some of the largest in the index, after the declines they have experienced over the last year, many aren't even big enough today to meet the market cap threshold ($3.5 billion) for inclusion in the S&P 500.