The takeaway
Levi Strauss & Co Class A shows a slight seasonal lean over 7 years of data — strongest in January (+3.3%) and softest in February (+1.4%).
Right now
In July, the stock has risen 57% of years, averaging +0.4%, roughly 1.7 pts behind the S&P 500.
The full picture
Levi Strauss & Co Class A's most dependable month has been January, higher in 5 of 6 years; February has been its least reliable, up just 33% of the time.
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Month by month
The stock's clearest edge over the S&P 500 lands in January (+3.5 pts); it has trailed the market most in October (−4.8 pts).
“vs S&P” is Levi Strauss & Co Class A’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating Levi Strauss & Co Class A’s own seasonal edge from broad market drift.
Reality check
Over the last 5 years, January has closed higher 80% of the time versus 83% across the last 7 years — the pattern is holding.
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 seasonal story is really one month's story — January. It has closed higher in 5 of 6 Januaries, a concentration the rest of the calendar can't touch.
Read it with one caveat: the average (+3.3%) runs well ahead of the median (+1.5%), so a handful of outsized years — not steady strength — do much of the lifting. Few months are steadier: January's returns vary by just 9.0% year to year. Better still, that strength is the stock's own and not just a buoyant market — January has outpaced the S&P 500 by +3.5 points on average. Few peers keep such company in January — the typical stock clears it just 53% of the time.
Only November comes anywhere near it for reliability. At the other end of the calendar, February is the year's low point, though even there the stock has stayed positive on average (+1.4%), a sign every month leans up, and the edge isn't year-round — the stock has trailed the S&P 500 in October, June, and July. Its roughest month on record was a −30.4% March in 2020 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
Reassuringly, the tendency has held its shape: the recent five years still track the years behind them.
For a stock this dependable in January, the sharper question is the rest of the year — outside its strong stretch, the calendar gives far less to lean on. With a short 7-year record, the signal is best held loosely.
Short answers on the stock's best month (January), its worst (February), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Only mildly. The stock's months are fairly even — January is the firmest (+3.3%) and February the softest (+1.4%), a narrow spread that points to weak seasonality rather than a strong calendar effect.
January has been the strongest, averaging +3.3% and closing higher in 5 of 6 years since 2019.
It's the weakest month, but it has still averaged a small gain (+1.4%) — quiet rather than genuinely bad.
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