The takeaway
Agilysys Inc shows a pronounced seasonal pattern over 10 years of data — strongest in May (+10.9%) and softest in September (+0.7%).
Right now
In July, the stock has risen 60% of years, averaging +5.8%, about +3.7 pts better than the S&P 500.
The full picture
Agilysys Inc's most dependable month has been May, higher in 9 of 10 years; September has been its least reliable, up just 40% of the time.
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Month by month
The stock's clearest edge over the S&P 500 lands in May (+10.1 pts); it has trailed the market most in March (−7.2 pts).
“vs S&P” is Agilysys Inc’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating Agilysys Inc’s own seasonal edge from broad market drift.
Reality check
Over the last 5 years, May has closed higher 80% of the time versus 90% across the last 10 years — the pattern is holding.
Figures are the typical (median) May return and how often it rose — the last 5 years versus the last 10(the heatmap’s default window). This verdict stays anchored to that 10-year window even if you zoom the chart, so it never disagrees with the badges above.
In plain English
This is a stock you can almost set a calendar by, and May is the anchor — it has closed higher in 9 of 10 Mays, the steadiest beat on its year.
A typical May brings +7.5%, a shade under the +10.9% average. That reliability comes with real swings, mind — even May ranges by 13.0% from year to year, so any single year can land far from the average. Better still, that strength is the stock's own and not just a buoyant market — May has outpaced the S&P 500 by +10.1 points on average. Few peers keep such company in May — the typical stock clears it just 55% of the time.
May anchors a run, too: the May-through-August window has been the stock's reliable season. At the other end of the calendar, September is the year's low point, though even there the stock has stayed positive on average (+0.7%), a sign every month leans up, and the edge isn't year-round — the stock has trailed the S&P 500 in March. Its roughest month on record was a −48.5% March in 2020 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
At its steadiest, May strung together 7 straight positive years. Reassuringly, the tendency has held its shape: the recent five years still track the years behind them.
For a stock this dependable in May, the sharper question is the rest of the year — outside its strong stretch, the calendar gives far less to lean on.
Short answers on the stock's best month (May), its worst (September), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Yes, to a pronounced degree. Since 2016 its best month (May, +10.9%) has run well ahead of its worst (September, +0.7%) — the heatmap above shows how steady that gap has been year to year.
May has been the strongest, averaging +10.9% and closing higher in 9 of 10 years since 2016.
It's the weakest month, but it has still averaged a small gain (+0.7%) — quiet rather than genuinely bad.
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