PPL·PPL Corporation

Realized volatility (21d)

17.0% 48th pct

Below its peak

-13.5%

vs 200-day average

-3.9%

Up days (1y)

51%

PPL Corporation is currently running 17.0% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against PPL's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 48th percentile — close to its own typical level, against a typical reading of 17.4%. 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.

PPL is trading -13.5% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -16.3%, 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 -3.9% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 23rd percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year PPL closed higher on 51% of sessions, and it is currently 9 sessions into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 14 years of records, PPL finished the month higher 11 of 14 times, with a median return of +3.1% and an average of +3.0%. Its strongest month historically has been October at +3.0% on average, its weakest February at -2.5%. 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: PPL has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 37 of 3,268 sessions (1.1% of the time), with the largest gaps running +6.4% and -9.8%. 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, PPL moved an average of 1.2% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -1.0% and a largest of -1.7%.

All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-10-15 and 2026-10-14, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against PPL's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.