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VMW Relative to the S&P 500

VMW Relative to the Sector

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Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the VMware Inc. (NYSE:VMW) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of January 30 and a Sell Date of April 24 has resulted in a geometric average return of 8.32% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 11 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 10 of those periods. This is an excellent rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 11 years by an average of 9.03% 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.

VMWare Inc provides virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions. It is engaged in the development and application of virtualization technologies with x86 server-based computing, separating application software from the underlying hardware.

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