ZBRA·Zebra Technologies Corporation

Realized volatility (21d)

21.3% 17th pct

Below its peak

-37.6%

vs 200-day average

+42.5%

Up days (1y)

49%

Zebra Technologies Corporation is currently running 21.3% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against ZBRA's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 17th percentile — unusually subdued by its own history, against a typical reading of 32.8%. 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.

ZBRA is trading -37.6% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -31.2%, and the deepest was -61.4% 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 +42.5% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 98th percentile — a wider gap than this stock usually carries. Over the past year ZBRA closed higher on 49% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, ZBRA finished the month higher 9 of 13 times, with a median return of +3.0% and an average of +2.3%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +8.1% on average, its weakest September at -2.7%. 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: ZBRA has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 225 of 3,267 sessions (6.9% of the time), with the largest gaps running +10.3% and -19.7%. 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, ZBRA moved an average of 2.0% in the session after earnings, closing higher 2 of those 3 times, with a median move of +0.3% and a largest of -3.9%.

All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-10-15 and 2026-10-13, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against ZBRA's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.