The takeaway
Viavi Solutions Inc shows a moderate seasonal pattern over 10 years of data — strongest in July (+4.6%) and softest in April (−3.3%).
Right now
In July, the stock has risen 60% of years, averaging +4.6%, about +2.4 pts better than the S&P 500.
The full picture
Viavi Solutions Inc's most dependable month has been July, higher in 6 of 10 years; April 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 February (+4.7 pts); it has trailed the market most in April (−4.9 pts).
“vs S&P” is Viavi Solutions Inc’s average for a month minus the S&P 500’s average for that same month — isolating Viavi Solutions Inc’s own seasonal edge from broad market drift.
Reality check
Over the last 5 years, July has closed higher 40% of the time versus 60% across the last 10 years — the pattern is weakening.
Figures are the typical (median) July 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, July (up in 6 of 10 Julys) edging a crowded field.
The strength looks broad-based rather than freakish: its average (+4.6%) and median (+4.6%) sit close together, so no single blow-out year is flattering the figure. Few months are steadier: July's returns vary by just 7.1% year to year, and even its worst July in 10 years lost only 4.7% — the gentlest downside anywhere on its calendar. Better still, that strength is the stock's own and not just a buoyant market — July has outpaced the S&P 500 by +2.4 points on average. Some of that is a strong month market-wide, mind — July rises for about 61% of stocks — so the tendency is real if not unique.
It doesn't stand entirely alone — February, March, and June have leaned firm as well, if less emphatically. The weaker half of the year is plainer: April has been the soft spot — the weakest of 4 months that average a loss (−3.3%), and the edge isn't year-round — the stock has trailed the S&P 500 in April, November, and March. Its roughest month on record was a −25.0% November in 2022 — a reminder of how hard even a seasonal name can fall.
The pattern has softened of late, July'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 (July), its worst (April), and whether it really trades seasonally.
Yes, to a moderate degree. Since 2016 its best month (July, +4.6%) has run well ahead of its worst (April, −3.3%) — the heatmap above shows how steady that gap has been year to year.
July has been the strongest, averaging +4.6% and closing higher in 6 of 10 years since 2016.
It's the weakest, averaging −3.3% — historically a soft spot, though it still varies from year to year.
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