FirstCash Holdings Inc (FCFS) Historical Volatility

Tracking FCFS historical volatility helps you see how much FirstCash Holdings 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, FirstCash Holdings Inc's HV tells you what really happened. Use our scanner to monitor FCFS 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 FCFS 30 day historical volatility is one of the most widely watched readings because it balances responsiveness with stability. Comparing FirstCash Holdings 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.

FirstCash Holdings, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates retail pawn stores in the United States, Mexico, and rest of Latin America. Its pawn stores lend money on the collateral of pledged personal property, including jewelry, electronics, tools, appliances, sporting goods, and musical instruments; and retails merchandise acquired through collateral forfeitures on forfeited pawn loans and over-the-counter purchases of merchandise directly from customers. The company is also involved in melting scrap jewelry, as well as sells gold, silver, and diamonds in commodity markets. As of December 31, 2021, it operated 1,081 stores in the United States and the District of Columbia; 1,656 stores in Mexico; 60 stores in Guatemala; 13 stores in El Salvador; and 15 stores in Colombia.

The company was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

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 FirstCash Holdings Inc's historical volatility side-by-side with implied readings across every lookback window, so you can see exactly where FCFS HV is running hot, cold, or in line. Make the FCFS 30 day historical volatility — and every other window — work for your edge instead of against it.