NOW·ServiceNow, Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

49.4% 81st pct

Below its peak

-42.3%

vs 200-day average

+15.3%

Up days (1y)

48%

ServiceNow, Inc. is currently running 49.4% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against NOW's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 81st percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 34.0%. 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.

NOW is trading -42.3% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -27.1%, and the deepest was -46.0% in 2022. 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 +15.3% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 61st percentile — a somewhat wider gap than its own norm. Over the past year NOW closed higher on 48% of sessions, and it is currently 4 sessions into a falling streak.

On September specifically: over 13 years of records, NOW finished the month higher 5 of 13 times, with a median return of -2.5% and an average of -1.8%. Its strongest month historically has been May at +7.1% on average, its weakest March 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: NOW has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 154 of 3,267 sessions (4.7% of the time), with the largest gaps running +7.0% and -9.1%. 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, NOW moved an average of 6.0% in the session after earnings, closing higher 0 of those 3 times, with a median move of -5.4% and a largest of -7.9%.

All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-09-20 and 2026-09-18, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against NOW's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.