The 2013 edition of the Almanac lists the 21 companies that have risen nine times or more in the last ten years in the month of December – the shares that like December.
Below is a table of the the seven stocks that dislike December – each stock has fallen in at least 8 of the past 10 Decembers – with their average returns for all Decembers since 2002.
| Company | Avg (%) |
| CML Microsystems | -5.04 |
| HMV Group | -7.03 |
| Quarto Group (The) Inc | -4.71 |
| Rank Group (The) | -4.42 |
| SkyePharma | -3.53 |
| Thorntons | -6.31 |
| Wincanton | -4.81 |
A portfolio of these seven stocks would have under-performed the FTSE All Share Index in every December since 2002 with an average under-performance of 7.4% each December.
