CTSH·Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Realized volatility (21d)

34.1% 84th pct

Below its peak

-34.1%

vs 200-day average

+1.8%

Up days (1y)

49%

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is currently running 34.1% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against CTSH's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 84th percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 23.4%. 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.

CTSH is trading -34.1% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -22.0%, and the deepest was -44.3% 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 +1.8% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 53rd percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year CTSH closed higher on 49% of sessions, and it is currently 5 sessions into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, CTSH finished the month higher 10 of 13 times, with a median return of +2.5% and an average of +2.0%. Its strongest month historically has been July at +5.9% on average, its weakest September at -3.5%. 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: CTSH has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 129 of 3,267 sessions (3.9% of the time), with the largest gaps running +6.1% and -12.1%. 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, CTSH moved an average of 2.4% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -1.0% and a largest of -5.5%.

All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-10-15 and 2026-10-13, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against CTSH's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.