FITB·Fifth Third Bancorp

Realized volatility (21d)

22.6% 33rd pct

Below its peak

-15.6%

vs 200-day average

-2.9%

Up days (1y)

55%

Fifth Third Bancorp is currently running 22.6% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against FITB's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 33rd percentile — on the quiet side for this stock, 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.

FITB is trading -15.6% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -25.1%, and the deepest was -60.8% in 2020. The current pullback is therefore shallower than what this stock gives back in a typical year, which is context worth having before treating it as a dislocation.

Price sits -2.9% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 35th percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year FITB closed higher on 55% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, FITB finished the month higher 9 of 13 times, with a median return of +3.9% and an average of +3.1%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +6.5% on average, its weakest March at -7.0%. 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: FITB has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 163 of 3,266 sessions (5.0% of the time), with the largest gaps running +9.0% and -14.9%. 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, FITB moved an average of 2.4% in the session after earnings, closing higher 3 of those 3 times, with a median move of +1.4% and a largest of +5.5%.

All figures computed from 3,267 daily closes between 2013-10-15 and 2026-10-13, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against FITB's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.