GPN·Global Payments Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

30.2% 64th pct

Below its peak

-62.7%

vs 200-day average

+7.1%

Up days (1y)

45%

Global Payments Inc. is currently running 30.2% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against GPN's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 64th percentile — a little above its own norm, against a typical reading of 26.0%. 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.

GPN is trading -62.7% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -23.3%, and the deepest was -46.2% in 2021. 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 +7.1% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 56th percentile — a somewhat wider gap than its own norm. Over the past year GPN closed higher on 45% of sessions, and it is currently 3 sessions into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, GPN finished the month higher 7 of 13 times, with a median return of +3.4% and an average of +0.6%. Its strongest month historically has been July at +3.9% on average, its weakest September 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: GPN has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 153 of 3,267 sessions (4.7% of the time), with the largest gaps running +9.0% and -14.4%. 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, GPN moved an average of 1.0% in the session after earnings, closing higher 2 of those 3 times, with a median move of +0.2% and a largest of +1.5%.

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