DHR·Danaher Corporation

Realized volatility (21d)

29.0% 80th pct

Below its peak

-24.0%

vs 200-day average

+11.2%

Up days (1y)

51%

Danaher Corporation is currently running 29.0% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against DHR's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 80th percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 20.9%. 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.

DHR is trading -24.0% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -14.0%, and the deepest was -30.9% 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 +11.2% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 77th percentile — a somewhat wider gap than its own norm. Over the past year DHR closed higher on 51% of sessions, and it is currently 4 sessions into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 14 years of records, DHR finished the month higher 9 of 14 times, with a median return of +2.3% and an average of +0.5%. Its strongest month historically has been July at +4.7% on average, its weakest February at -0.5%. 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: DHR has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 74 of 3,268 sessions (2.3% of the time), with the largest gaps running +14.7% and -7.1%. 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, DHR moved an average of 2.7% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -1.8% and a largest of -5.6%.

All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-10-15 and 2026-10-14, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against DHR's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.