The takeaway
Brainsway Ltd shows a moderate seasonal pattern over 7 years of data — strongest in January (+1.8%) and softest in April (−4.2%).
Right now
In July, the stock has risen 43% of years, averaging +4.1%, about +1.9 pts better than the S&P 500.
The full picture
Brainsway Ltd's most dependable month has been January, higher in 4 of 6 years; April has been its least reliable, up just 14% of the time.
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Month by month
The stock's clearest edge over the S&P 500 lands in August (+11.1 pts); it has trailed the market most in March (−8.0 pts).
“vs S&P” is Brainsway Ltd’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating Brainsway Ltd’s own seasonal edge from broad market drift.
Reality check
Over the last 5 years, January has closed higher 60% of the time versus 67% across the last 7 years — the pattern is weakening.
Figures are the typical (median) January return and how often it rose — the last 5 years versus the last 7(the heatmap’s default window). This verdict stays anchored to that 7-year window even if you zoom the chart, so it never disagrees with the badges above.
In plain English
The year leans January's way without overwhelming the rest of it: the stock has closed higher in 4 of 6 Januaries, its most dependable month if not a dominant one.
Its average (+1.8%) and median (+5.0%) 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 January ranges by 10.8% from year to year, so any single year can land far from the average. Crucially, the gain is the stock's own rather than a rising tide's: January has cleared the S&P 500 by +2.0 points above the index. That consistency sets it apart from the field, where the average stock manages January only about 53% of the time.
The weaker half of the year is plainer: April has been the soft spot — the weakest of 4 months that average a loss (−4.2%), and the edge isn't year-round — the stock has trailed the S&P 500 in March, April, and October. Its roughest month on record was a −46.0% November in 2022 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
The pattern has softened of late, January's last five years slipping below its longer-run record.
Treat it as a tendency rather than a rule — seasonality describes the past, not a promise. With a short 7-year record and returns that swing hard year to year, the signal is best held loosely.
Short answers on the stock's best month (January), its worst (April), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Yes, to a moderate degree. Since 2019 its best month (January, +1.8%) has run well ahead of its worst (April, −4.2%) — the heatmap above shows how steady that gap has been year to year.
January has been the strongest, averaging +1.8% and closing higher in 4 of 6 years since 2019.
It's the weakest, averaging −4.2% — historically a soft spot, though it still varies from year to year.
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