VRSN·VeriSign, Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

25.0% 68th pct

Below its peak

-5.7%

vs 200-day average

+9.9%

Up days (1y)

54%

VeriSign, Inc. is currently running 25.0% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against VRSN's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 68th percentile — a little above its own norm, against a typical reading of 20.9%. 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.

VRSN is trading -5.7% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -19.3%, and the deepest was -37.9% in 2022. 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 +9.9% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 63rd percentile — a somewhat wider gap than its own norm. Over the past year VRSN closed higher on 54% of sessions, and it is currently 4 sessions into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, VRSN finished the month higher 8 of 13 times, with a median return of +3.3% and an average of +1.9%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +4.2% on average, its weakest September at -1.0%. 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: VRSN has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 79 of 3,267 sessions (2.4% of the time), with the largest gaps running +25.5% and -9.9%. 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, VRSN moved an average of 6.7% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -4.6% and a largest of -7.9%.

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