The takeaway
D-Wave Quantum Inc. shows a pronounced seasonal pattern over 6 years of data — strongest in November (+28.0%) and softest in April (−14.0%).
Right now
In July, the stock has fallen 20% of years, averaging −1.2%, roughly 3.3 pts behind the S&P 500.
The full picture
D-Wave Quantum Inc.'s most dependable month has been November, higher in 3 of 5 years; April has been its least reliable, up just 20% of the time.
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Month by month
The stock's clearest edge over the S&P 500 lands in May (+57.1 pts); it has trailed the market most in August (−16.5 pts).
“vs S&P” is D-Wave Quantum Inc.’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating D-Wave Quantum 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 6 years — the pattern is holding.
Figures are the typical (median) November return and how often it rose — the last 5 years versus the last 6(the heatmap’s default window). This verdict stays anchored to that 6-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. November reads as the strong month, higher in 3 of 5 Novembers, but the tale is one of a few outsized years more than steady gains.
Read it with one caveat: the average (+28.0%) runs well ahead of the median (+0.6%), so a handful of outsized years — not steady strength — do much of the lifting. That reliability comes with real swings, mind — even November ranges by 82.2% 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 +25.6 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.
November anchors a run, too: the September-through-November window has been the stock's reliable season. The weaker half of the year is plainer: April has been the soft spot — the weakest of 5 months that average a loss (−14.0%), and the edge isn't year-round — the stock has trailed the S&P 500 in August, April, and January. Its roughest month on record was a −59.6% October in 2022 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
Hold it loosely, then: the November tendency is genuine but lumpy, more about the occasional outsized year than a gain to bank on. With a short 6-year record and returns that swing hard year to year, the signal is best held loosely.
Short answers on the stock's best month (November), its worst (April), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Yes, to a pronounced degree. Since 2020 its best month (November, +28.0%) has run well ahead of its worst (April, −14.0%) — the heatmap above shows how steady that gap has been year to year.
November has been the strongest, averaging +28.0% and closing higher in 3 of 5 years since 2020.
It's the weakest, averaging −14.0% — historically a soft spot, though it still varies from year to year.
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