The takeaway
Baker Hughes Co shows a slight seasonal lean over 10 years of data — strongest in July (+2.2%) and softest in April (+2.3%).
Right now
In July, the stock has risen 70% of years, averaging +2.2% — essentially in line with the S&P 500.
The full picture
Baker Hughes Co's most dependable month has been July, higher in 7 of 10 years; April has been its least reliable, up just 30% of the time.
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Month by month
The stock's clearest edge over the S&P 500 lands in May (+2.9 pts); it has trailed the market most in March (−2.8 pts).
“vs S&P” is Baker Hughes Co’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating Baker Hughes Co’s own seasonal edge from broad market drift.
Reality check
Over the last 5 years, July has closed higher 60% of the time versus 70% across the last 10 years — the pattern is strengthening.
Figures are the typical (median) July 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
Strip the year back and a single month does the heavy lifting: July, up in 7 of 10 Julys while the other eleven tend to blur together.
Its average (+2.2%) and median (+2.6%) land within a hair of each other — the tell of steady, year-after-year gains rather than one outlier doing the work. That reliability comes with real swings, mind — even July ranges by 9.3% from year to year, so any single year can land far from the average. Set against the S&P 500, mind, July is close to a wash — the gain mirrors the market more than it beats it. Some of that is a strong month market-wide, mind — July rises for about 61% of stocks — so the tendency is real if not unique.
A few other months pull their weight: September, November, and December have also closed higher more often than not. On the other side of the ledger, April is the year's low point, though even there the stock has stayed positive on average (+2.3%), a sign every month leans up, and the edge isn't year-round — the stock has trailed the S&P 500 in March, June, and February. Its roughest month on record was a −38.8% March in 2020 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
If anything it has sharpened recently — the last five Julys run ahead of the earlier years.
The takeaway is less about when to buy than what to expect: July aside, the stock's months offer little reliable tilt.
Short answers on the stock's best month (July), its worst (April), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Only mildly. The stock's months are fairly even — July is the firmest (+2.2%) and April the softest (+2.3%), a narrow spread that points to weak seasonality rather than a strong calendar effect.
July has been the strongest, averaging +2.2% and closing higher in 7 of 10 years since 2016.
It's the weakest month, but it has still averaged a small gain (+2.3%) — quiet rather than genuinely bad.
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