WWD·Woodward, Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

22.4% 37th pct

Below its peak

-23.8%

vs 200-day average

-8.8%

Up days (1y)

48%

Woodward, Inc. is currently running 22.4% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against WWD's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 37th percentile — on the quiet side for this stock, against a typical reading of 25.5%. 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.

WWD is trading -23.8% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -19.5%, and the deepest was -60.7% 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 -8.8% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 10th percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year WWD closed higher on 48% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, WWD finished the month higher 7 of 13 times, with a median return of +0.0% and an average of +1.1%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +8.6% on average, its weakest March at -3.4%. 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: WWD has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 153 of 3,267 sessions (4.7% of the time), with the largest gaps running +11.0% and -17.9%. 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 2013-10-15 and 2026-10-13, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against WWD's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.