GIL·Gildan Activewear Inc. Class A Sub. Vot.

Realized volatility (21d)

51.1% 92nd pct

Below its peak

-44.1%

vs 200-day average

-29.8%

Up days (1y)

44%

Gildan Activewear Inc. Class A Sub. Vot. is currently running 51.1% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against GIL's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 92nd percentile — an extreme by its own standards, against a typical reading of 25.1%. 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.

GIL is trading -44.1% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -23.5%, and the deepest was -66.3% 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 -29.8% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 3rd percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year GIL closed higher on 44% of sessions, and it is currently 4 sessions into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, GIL finished the month higher 6 of 13 times, with a median return of -1.0% and an average of -1.0%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +7.2% on average, its weakest March at -4.6%. 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: GIL has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 164 of 3,267 sessions (5.0% of the time), with the largest gaps running +19.0% and -10.4%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

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