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IBM Relative to the S&P 500

IBM Relative to the Sector

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Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of July 9 and a Sell Date of October 15 has resulted in a geometric average return of 1.8% 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 15 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 4.38% per year.

The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Technology sector, which runs from October 9 to February 15. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Technology Sector Seasonal Chart.

International Business Machines Corp offers a variety of IT services along with software, and hardware. It has operations in over 170 countries and provides planning, build, manage, and maintain IT infrastructure, platforms, applications, and services.

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