AKAM·Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

86.4% 98th pct

Below its peak

-33.0%

vs 200-day average

-3.6%

Up days (1y)

53%

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is currently running 86.4% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against AKAM's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 98th percentile — an extreme by its own standards, against a typical reading of 26.6%. 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.

AKAM is trading -33.0% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -26.1%, and the deepest was -36.1% in 2017. 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 -3.6% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 34th percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year AKAM closed higher on 53% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, AKAM finished the month higher 7 of 13 times, with a median return of +0.1% and an average of -0.3%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +3.7% on average, its weakest September at -2.3%. 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: AKAM has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 109 of 3,265 sessions (3.3% of the time), with the largest gaps running +11.5% and -11.5%. 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, AKAM moved an average of 8.5% in the session after earnings, closing higher 0 of those 3 times, with a median move of -6.6% and a largest of -17.1%.

All figures computed from 3,266 daily closes between 2013-10-07 and 2026-10-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against AKAM's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.