SYK·Stryker Corporation

Realized volatility (21d)

24.2% 67th pct

Below its peak

-29.7%

vs 200-day average

-13.5%

Up days (1y)

48%

Stryker Corporation is currently running 24.2% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against SYK's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 67th percentile — a little above its own norm, against a typical reading of 20.0%. 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.

SYK is trading -29.7% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -14.2%, and the deepest was -42.5% in 2020. 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 -13.5% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 4th percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year SYK closed higher on 48% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 14 years of records, SYK finished the month higher 7 of 14 times, with a median return of +0.2% and an average of +0.9%. Its strongest month historically has been January at +4.2% on average, its weakest September at -1.6%. 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: SYK has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 87 of 3,268 sessions (2.7% of the time), with the largest gaps running +7.0% and -7.2%. 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, SYK moved an average of 2.6% in the session after earnings, closing higher 2 of those 3 times, with a median move of +0.9% and a largest of -6.0%.

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