NVT·nVent Electric plc

Realized volatility (21d)

47.1% 83rd pct

Below its peak

-9.5%

vs 200-day average

+17.7%

Up days (1y)

56%

nVent Electric plc is currently running 47.1% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against NVT's own 8 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 83rd percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 31.1%. 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.

NVT is trading -9.5% below its running peak. Across 7 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -29.1%, and the deepest was -56.2% 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 +17.7% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 65th percentile — a somewhat wider gap than its own norm. Over the past year NVT closed higher on 56% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 8 years of records, NVT finished the month higher 6 of 8 times, with a median return of +8.4% and an average of +5.0%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +6.5% on average, its weakest March at -4.7%. 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: NVT has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 183 of 2,132 sessions (8.6% of the time), with the largest gaps running +8.0% and -13.3%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

All figures computed from 2,133 daily closes between 2018-04-17 and 2026-10-09, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against NVT's own 9-year history, not a peer group or index.