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SVVC Relative to the S&P 500

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Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc. (NASD:SVVC) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of December 20 and a Sell Date of March 13 has resulted in a geometric average return of 2% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 13 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 8 of those periods. This is a fair rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 13 years by an average of 43.22% per year.

The seasonal timeframe correlates Fairly Well with the period of seasonal strength for the Financial sector, which runs from November 22 to April 13. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Financial Sector Seasonal Chart.

Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc is an externally managed, non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek long-term growth of capital, principally by seeking capital gains on its equity and equity-related investments. Its portfolio is predominantly composed of equity and equity derivative securities of illiquid private technology and cleantech companies but it may also invest in micro-cap publicly traded companies with market capitalizations of less than 250 million dollars.

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Stocks mentioned in this post: SVVC