VZ·Verizon Communications Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

30.7% 94th pct

Below its peak

-29.4%

vs 200-day average

-6.1%

Up days (1y)

50%

Verizon Communications Inc. is currently running 30.7% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against VZ's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 94th percentile — an extreme by its own standards, against a typical reading of 16.4%. 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.

VZ is trading -29.4% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -16.5%, and the deepest was -35.9% in 2022. 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 -6.1% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 17th percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year VZ closed higher on 50% of sessions, and it is currently 3 sessions into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 14 years of records, VZ finished the month higher 6 of 14 times, with a median return of -2.8% and an average of -0.4%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +2.9% on average, its weakest April at -2.1%. 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: VZ has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 19 of 3,268 sessions (0.6% of the time), with the largest gaps running +7.4% and -4.6%. 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, VZ moved an average of 0.9% in the session after earnings, closing higher 2 of those 3 times, with a median move of +0.8% and a largest of +1.9%.

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