The takeaway
Daktronics Inc shows a pronounced seasonal pattern over 10 years of data — strongest in November (+5.4%) and softest in February (−2.7%).
Right now
In July, the stock has risen 60% of years, averaging +4.9%, about +2.7 pts better than the S&P 500.
The full picture
Daktronics Inc's most dependable month has been November, higher in 6 of 10 years; February 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 August (+6.1 pts); it has trailed the market most in December (−3.9 pts).
“vs S&P” is Daktronics Inc’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating Daktronics Inc’s own seasonal edge from broad market drift.
Reality check
Over the last 5 years, November has closed higher 60% of the time versus 60% across the last 10 years — the pattern is weakening.
Figures are the typical (median) November 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
The strength here is spread across the year rather than banked in one month: 6 of its 12 months have closed higher more often than not, November (up in 6 of 10 Novembers) edging a crowded field.
The strength looks broad-based rather than freakish: its average (+5.4%) and median (+4.5%) sit close together, so no single blow-out year is flattering the figure. That reliability comes with real swings, mind — even November ranges by 12.1% 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 — November has outpaced the S&P 500 by +3.1 points on average. Some of that is a strong month market-wide, mind — November rises for about 62% of stocks — so the tendency is real if not unique.
It doesn't stand entirely alone — March, May, and July have leaned firm as well, if less emphatically. The weaker half of the year is plainer: February has been the soft spot — the weakest of 4 months that average a loss (−2.7%), and the edge isn't year-round — the stock has trailed the S&P 500 in December, April, and February. Its roughest month on record was a −22.0% December in 2023 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
The pattern has softened of late, November'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.
Short answers on the stock's best month (November), its worst (February), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Yes, to a pronounced degree. Since 2016 its best month (November, +5.4%) has run well ahead of its worst (February, −2.7%) — the heatmap above shows how steady that gap has been year to year.
November has been the strongest, averaging +5.4% and closing higher in 6 of 10 years since 2016.
It's the weakest, averaging −2.7% — historically a soft spot, though it still varies from year to year.
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