The takeaway
Skillz Platform Inc shows a pronounced seasonal pattern over 6 years of data — strongest in June (+2.4%) and softest in December (−9.7%).
Right now
In July, the stock has risen 33% of years, averaging +1.5%, roughly 0.6 pts behind the S&P 500.
The full picture
Skillz Platform Inc's most dependable month has been June, higher in 4 of 6 years; December has been its least reliable, up just 17% of the time.
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Month by month
The stock's clearest edge over the S&P 500 lands in January (+17.8 pts); it has trailed the market most in March (−14.9 pts).
“vs S&P” is Skillz Platform Inc’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating Skillz Platform Inc’s own seasonal edge from broad market drift.
Reality check
Over the last 5 years, June has closed higher 60% of the time versus 67% across the last 6 years — the pattern is weakening.
Figures are the typical (median) June 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
There's a real but measured seasonal tilt here, toward June — the firmest corner of the calendar, higher in 4 of 6 Junes.
The strength looks broad-based rather than freakish: its average (+2.4%) and median (+4.0%) sit close together, so no single blow-out year is flattering the figure. That reliability comes with real swings, mind — even June ranges by 17.1% 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 — June has outpaced the S&P 500 by +2.2 points on average. Few peers keep such company in June — the typical stock clears it just 52% of the time.
It doesn't stand entirely alone — January and May have leaned firm as well, if less emphatically. The weaker half of the year is plainer: December has been the soft spot — the weakest of 7 months that average a loss (−9.7%), and the edge isn't year-round — the stock has trailed the S&P 500 in March, September, and December. Its roughest month on record was a −49.9% December in 2022 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
The pattern has softened of late, June'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 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 (June), its worst (December), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Yes, to a pronounced degree. Since 2020 its best month (June, +2.4%) has run well ahead of its worst (December, −9.7%) — the heatmap above shows how steady that gap has been year to year.
June has been the strongest, averaging +2.4% and closing higher in 4 of 6 years since 2020.
It's the weakest, averaging −9.7% — historically a soft spot, though it still varies from year to year.
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