WPC·W. P. Carey Inc. REIT

Realized volatility (21d)

15.7% 35th pct

Below its peak

-30.3%

vs 200-day average

-10.2%

Up days (1y)

50%

W. P. Carey Inc. REIT is currently running 15.7% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against WPC's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 35th percentile — on the quiet side for this stock, against a typical reading of 18.2%. 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.

WPC is trading -30.3% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -19.6%, and the deepest was -50.7% 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 -10.2% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 9th percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year WPC closed higher on 50% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, WPC finished the month higher 9 of 13 times, with a median return of +1.7% and an average of +0.9%. Its strongest month historically has been July at +3.7% on average, its weakest September at -5.0%. 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: WPC has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 82 of 3,268 sessions (2.5% of the time), with the largest gaps running +6.0% and -12.7%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

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