“Only 2 Stocks Outperform Every Fall, Offering Rare Moneymakers”
September 27, 2021
“Just two stocks in the S&P 500, consumer staples firm Lamb Weston (LW) and financial MarketAxess Holdings (MKTX), topped the index in each of the past three fall seasons, says an Investor’s Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence and MarketSmith…
The market’s slump in the fall is worse than in any other season of the year, says “Stock Trader’s Almanac.” Stocks dropped 8.9%, on average, from the high of September down to the low during the fourth quarter. The slump from high to low is just 6.8% in the spring. And it’s just 8.5% in the summer and 7% in the winter.
And the worst seasonal showing in recent years, an 18.5% drop, hit the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the fall of 2019. It’s a similar story for the S&P 500, which plunged 17.5% in the fall of 2017, its worst fall showing in the past five years…”