IQV·IQVIA Holdings Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

22.2% 42nd pct

Below its peak

-7.3%

vs 200-day average

+26.4%

Up days (1y)

52%

IQVIA Holdings Inc. is currently running 22.2% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against IQV's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 42nd percentile — close to its own typical level, against a typical reading of 24.4%. 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.

IQV is trading -7.3% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -20.0%, and the deepest was -49.4% 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 +26.4% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 97th percentile — a wider gap than this stock usually carries. Over the past year IQV closed higher on 52% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 14 years of records, IQV finished the month higher 6 of 14 times, with a median return of -0.1% and an average of +0.2%. Its strongest month historically has been July at +9.5% on average, its weakest September at -3.0%. 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: IQV has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 129 of 3,268 sessions (3.9% of the time), with the largest gaps running +7.6% and -16.5%. 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 IQV's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.