GEN·Gen Digital Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

63.2% 96th pct

Below its peak

-30.4%

vs 200-day average

-2.7%

Up days (1y)

50%

Gen Digital Inc. is currently running 63.2% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against GEN's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 96th 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.

GEN is trading -30.4% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -24.9%, and the deepest was -43.4% in 2020. 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 -2.7% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 41st percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year GEN closed higher on 50% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 14 years of records, GEN finished the month higher 5 of 14 times, with a median return of -0.5% and an average of -0.1%. Its strongest month historically has been May at +4.5% on average, its weakest March at -4.0%. 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: GEN has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 216 of 3,268 sessions (6.6% of the time), with the largest gaps running +7.9% and -40.2%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

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