Bain Capital Specialty Finance Inc (BCSF) Historical Volatility

Tracking BCSF historical volatility helps you see how much Bain Capital Specialty Finance Inc's stock price has actually moved over past periods, giving you a baseline to judge whether current option premiums are fair, cheap, or expensive. While implied volatility tells you what the market expects, Bain Capital Specialty Finance Inc's HV tells you what really happened. Use our scanner to monitor BCSF 30 day historical volatility alongside longer lookback windows and spot the moments when realized and implied diverge.

Historical volatility is the annualized standard deviation of an underlying's past returns, typically measured over rolling windows like 10, 20, 30, or 60 days. The BCSF 30 day historical volatility is one of the most widely watched readings because it balances responsiveness with stability. Comparing Bain Capital Specialty Finance Inc's HV to its implied volatility reveals the volatility risk premium — when IV sits well above HV, option sellers tend to have an edge; when HV runs hot relative to IV, buyers may be underpaying for movement.

Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc. is business development company specializing in direct loans to middle-market companies. The fund seeks to invest in senior investments with a first or second lien on collateral, senior first lien, stretch senior, senior second lien, unitranche, mezzanine debt, junior securities, other junior investments, and secondary purchases of assets or portfolios that primarily consist of middle-market corporate debt. It typically invests in companies with EBITDA between $10 million and $150 million.

Sizing a long premium trade, modeling a covered call, or hunting volatility arbitrage all come back to one question: how much has the stock actually moved? Our scanner puts Bain Capital Specialty Finance Inc's historical volatility side-by-side with implied readings across every lookback window, so you can see exactly where BCSF HV is running hot, cold, or in line. Make the BCSF 30 day historical volatility — and every other window — work for your edge instead of against it.