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ICE Relative to the S&P 500

ICE Relative to the Sector

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Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the IntercontinentalExchange Group, Inc. (NYSE:ICE) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of September 4 and a Sell Date of December 8 has resulted in a geometric average return of 8.73% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 15 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 13 of those periods. This is a very good rate of success, but the return underperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 15 years by an average of 1.03% 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 the exchanges business that is about 55% of net revenue, Intercontinental Exchange also has mortgage technology (15% of net revenue) and fixed income & data services businesses (30% of net revenue).

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