BAX·Baxter International Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

28.2% 72nd pct

Below its peak

-74.4%

vs 200-day average

+16.2%

Up days (1y)

47%

Baxter International Inc. is currently running 28.2% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against BAX's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 72nd percentile — a little above its own norm, against a typical reading of 22.2%. 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.

BAX is trading -74.4% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -22.0%, and the deepest was -52.1% in 2025. 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 +16.2% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 95th percentile — a wider gap than this stock usually carries. Over the past year BAX closed higher on 47% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, BAX finished the month higher 4 of 13 times, with a median return of -2.7% and an average of -4.7%. Its strongest month historically has been April at +2.3% on average, its weakest October at -4.7%. 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: BAX has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 93 of 3,267 sessions (2.8% of the time), with the largest gaps running +5.4% and -5.6%. 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, BAX moved an average of 2.0% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -0.4% and a largest of +4.5%.

All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-10-07 and 2026-10-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against BAX's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.