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ICE Relative to the S&P 500

ICE Relative to the Sector

% of Revenue Generated in Each Quarter

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Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the IntercontinentalExchange Group, Inc. (NYSE:ICE) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of August 18 and a Sell Date of December 8 has resulted in a geometric average return of 12.13% 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 12 of those periods. This is an excellent rate of success and the return slightly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 13 years by an average of 0.77% per year.

The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly 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.

Intercontinental Exchange is a vertically integrated operator of financial exchanges and provides ancillary data products. Though the company is probably best known for its ownership of the New York Stock Exchange, which it acquired in 2013, ICE is the operator of a large derivatives exchange as well. The company’s largest commodity futures product is the ICE Brent crude futures contract. In addition to exchanges, ICE’s data and listings segment offers critically important equity and fixed-income market and pricing data. The company acquired Interactive Data in 2015 to bolster its fixed-income data offerings.

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Stocks mentioned in this post: ICE