Discover which stocks outperformed yesterday's bearish market

Against the current: Markets slid, yet TuSimple Holdings Inc., Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc., Moderna Inc went up and made this list of yesterday's top stocks gainers.

Leading equity indices in the US declined as after dropping 1.12%, S&P 500 closed at 4,145.58. Nasdaq lost 1.26% and ended the session at 12,560.

While price action maintains a negative bias, United States New Home Sales (Apr) released yesterday at 14:00 UTC with a figure of 683,000, while the previous figure was 656,000.

Despite markets falling yesterday, some stocks managed to post gains. Have a look at these Top Gainers.

+8.69%: solid session for Moderna generates 8.69% gain yesterday

After ending Monday's session at $126.74, Moderna Inc went up to $139.9 yesterday only to fall back and close at $137.75. The mRNA medicines company's market cap currently stands at $52.51 billion with an average daily volume of 3.27 million shares. So far this year, it has been under-performing the Nasdaq by 41.63%.

+8.19%: BioNTech opened at $107.53 yesterday before posting solid session gaining 8.19%

BioNTech rallied 8.19% and ended the session at $116.3. The company has a market cap of $28 billion with an average daily trading volume of 865,161 shares. So far this year, it has been doing worse than the Nasdaq by 40.21%.

TuSimple Holdings | Up 16.27% to $1.93 yesterday

An influx of buyers helped the self-driving technology developer to end the session higher around $1.93, while establishing a $1.64 to $2.1 session range yesterday.

Iovance Biotherapeutics | -13.39% yesterday including 2.1% gain in aftermarket trade

The Californian biopharmaceutical startup is now trading 49.07% above the significant low ($5.36) it slumped to 27 days ago. Iovance Biotherapeutics has a market cap of $2 billion with an average daily trading volume of 4.85 million shares. Iovance Biotherapeutics has a forecast of $200,000 with an EPS of -33.555 cents.