The takeaway
Emerald Expositions Events Inc shows a pronounced seasonal pattern over 9 years of data — strongest in December (+8.0%) and softest in October (−1.6%).
Right now
In July, the stock has fallen 44% of years, averaging −4.2%, roughly 6.4 pts behind the S&P 500.
The full picture
Emerald Expositions Events Inc's most dependable month has been December, higher in 6 of 9 years; October has been its least reliable, up just 22% of the time.
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Month by month
The stock's clearest edge over the S&P 500 lands in December (+7.0 pts); it has trailed the market most in March (−8.3 pts).
“vs S&P” is Emerald Expositions Events Inc’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating Emerald Expositions Events Inc’s own seasonal edge from broad market drift.
Reality check
Over the last 5 years, December has closed higher 60% of the time versus 67% across the last 9 years — the pattern is strengthening.
Figures are the typical (median) December return and how often it rose — the last 5 years versus the last 9(the heatmap’s default window). This verdict stays anchored to that 9-year window even if you zoom the chart, so it never disagrees with the badges above.
In plain English
This is a feast-or-famine calendar. December reads as the strong month, higher in 6 of 9 Decembers, but the tale is one of a few outsized years more than steady gains.
Read it with one caveat: the average (+8.0%) runs well ahead of the median (+4.7%), so a handful of outsized years — not steady strength — do much of the lifting. That reliability comes with real swings, mind — even December ranges by 13.8% 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 — December has outpaced the S&P 500 by +7.0 points on average.
Only June comes anywhere near it for reliability. At the other end of the calendar, October has been the soft spot — the weakest of 7 months that average a loss (−1.6%), and the edge isn't year-round — the stock has trailed the S&P 500 in March, April, and July. Its roughest month on record was a −58.6% March in 2020 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
If anything it has sharpened recently — the last five Decembers run ahead of the earlier years.
Hold it loosely, then: the December tendency is genuine but lumpy, more about the occasional outsized year than a gain to bank on. With a short 9-year record and returns that swing hard year to year, the signal is best held loosely.
Short answers on the stock's best month (December), its worst (October), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Yes, to a pronounced degree. Since 2017 its best month (December, +8.0%) has run well ahead of its worst (October, −1.6%) — the heatmap above shows how steady that gap has been year to year.
December has been the strongest, averaging +8.0% and closing higher in 6 of 9 years since 2017.
It's the weakest, averaging −1.6% — historically a soft spot, though it still varies from year to year.
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