Proto Labs Inc (PRLB) Historical Volatility

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

Proto Labs, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an e-commerce driven digital manufacturer of custom prototypes and on-demand production parts in the worldwide. The company offers injection molding; computer numerical control machining; three-dimensional (3D) printing, which include stereolithography, selective laser sintering, direct metal laser sintering, multi jet fusion, polyjet, and carbon DLS processes; and sheet metal fabrication products, including quick-turn and e-commerce-enabled custom sheet metal parts. It serves developers and engineers, who use 3D computer-aided design software to design products across a range of end markets.

The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Maple Plain, Minnesota.

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