IFF·International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

16.5% 22nd pct

Below its peak

-46.1%

vs 200-day average

+10.1%

Up days (1y)

50%

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. is currently running 16.5% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against IFF's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 22nd percentile — unusually subdued by its own history, against a typical reading of 22.8%. 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.

IFF is trading -46.1% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -21.8%, and the deepest was -46.0% in 2023. 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 +10.1% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 81st percentile — a wider gap than this stock usually carries. Over the past year IFF closed higher on 50% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, IFF finished the month higher 10 of 13 times, with a median return of +2.1% and an average of +1.0%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +4.1% on average, its weakest August at -3.2%. 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: IFF has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 94 of 3,266 sessions (2.9% of the time), with the largest gaps running +6.7% and -12.4%. 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, IFF moved an average of 8.2% in the session after earnings, closing higher 3 of those 3 times, with a median move of +8.7% and a largest of +10.8%.

All figures computed from 3,267 daily closes between 2013-10-14 and 2026-10-09, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against IFF's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.