July Is the S&P 500's Best Month: These 5 Tech Stocks Beat the Market

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)

July has historically been the U.S. stock market’s best month. The S&P 500 — as tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) — rose 2.56% on average over the past 20 years in July, the strongest average return of any month.

The index finished July higher 80% of the time and has closed green in each of the past 11 Julys.