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$DJUSOL Relative to the S&P 500

$DJUSOL Relative to the Sector

Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the Integrated Oil & Gas Industry seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of September 4 and a Sell Date of November 23 has resulted in a geometric average return of 2.1% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 20 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 14 of those periods. This is a good rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 20 years by an average of 5.93% per year.

The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Energy sector, which runs from January 21 to May 9. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Energy Sector Seasonal Chart.