XYL·Xylem Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

29.8% 79th pct

Below its peak

-33.1%

vs 200-day average

-15.4%

Up days (1y)

47%

Xylem Inc. is currently running 29.8% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against XYL's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 79th percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 22.2%. 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.

XYL is trading -33.1% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -20.5%, and the deepest was -38.3% 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 -15.4% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 6th percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year XYL closed higher on 47% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, XYL finished the month higher 9 of 13 times, with a median return of +4.3% and an average of +2.9%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +3.9% on average, its weakest March 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: XYL has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 117 of 3,267 sessions (3.6% of the time), with the largest gaps running +6.6% and -17.0%. 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, XYL moved an average of 2.0% in the session after earnings, closing higher 0 of those 3 times, with a median move of -1.7% and a largest of -2.8%.

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