SCHW·The Charles Schwab Corporation

Realized volatility (21d)

26.6% 46th pct

Below its peak

-15.1%

vs 200-day average

-1.5%

Up days (1y)

52%

The Charles Schwab Corporation is currently running 26.6% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against SCHW's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 46th percentile — close to its own typical level, against a typical reading of 27.6%. 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.

SCHW is trading -15.1% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -24.7%, and the deepest was -45.1% in 2023. 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 -1.5% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 36th percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year SCHW closed higher on 52% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 14 years of records, SCHW finished the month higher 9 of 14 times, with a median return of +2.6% and an average of +3.2%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +8.3% on average, its weakest March 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: SCHW has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 149 of 3,268 sessions (4.6% of the time), with the largest gaps running +9.8% and -11.9%. 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, SCHW moved an average of 0.9% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -0.3% 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 SCHW's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.