A Study in Stock Seasonality: General Electric

Mark Hulbert wrote a column in the New York Times this weekend highlighting a recent study finding that individual stocks perform better or worse based on the various months of the year. We decided to create a database on individual stock seasonality so investors could see how their stocks typically perform during each month.

Below we highlight GE's historical seasonality (as it looks in our database). As shown, GE's best month is December and its worst month is February. Click here (excel doc) to download a sample of our database for six Dow stocks (We provided a database of all 30 Dow stocks to Bespoke Premium members earlier Tuesday). Simply enter in one of the six tickers listed in the file to see each stock's average performance during the twelve months of the year.

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