ABT·Abbott Laboratories

Realized volatility (21d)

21.0% 57th pct

Below its peak

-29.4%

vs 200-day average

-3.7%

Up days (1y)

46%

Abbott Laboratories is currently running 21.0% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against ABT's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 57th percentile — close to its own typical level, against a typical reading of 19.7%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.

ABT is trading -29.4% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -17.2%, and the deepest was -31.9% in 2022. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began — and where past declines also continued.

Price sits -3.7% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 21st percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year ABT closed higher on 46% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, ABT finished the month higher 7 of 13 times, with a median return of +1.3% and an average of +1.3%. Its strongest month historically has been July at +4.4% on average, its weakest September at -1.6%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.

Overnight risk is measurable too: ABT has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 42 of 3,266 sessions (1.3% of the time), with the largest gaps running +11.5% and -5.2%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

Across the last 3 dated reports on file, ABT moved an average of 1.9% in the session after earnings, closing higher 2 of those 3 times, with a median move of +1.6% and a largest of -2.0%.

All figures computed from 3,267 daily closes between 2013-10-07 and 2026-10-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against ABT's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.