SSB·SouthState Bank Corporation

Realized volatility (21d)

12.6% 2nd pct

Below its peak

-9.6%

vs 200-day average

+1.5%

Up days (1y)

50%

SouthState Bank Corporation is currently running 12.6% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against SSB's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 2nd percentile — unusually subdued by its own history, against a typical reading of 24.9%. 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.

SSB is trading -9.6% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -19.7%, and the deepest was -50.7% 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 +1.5% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 47th percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year SSB closed higher on 50% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, SSB finished the month higher 8 of 13 times, with a median return of +1.2% and an average of +3.1%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +5.2% on average, its weakest March at -3.8%. 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: SSB has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 156 of 3,267 sessions (4.8% of the time), with the largest gaps running +31.6% and -19.7%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-10-07 and 2026-10-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against SSB's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.