Pricesmart Inc (PSMT) Historical Volatility

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

PriceSmart, Inc. owns and operates U.S. style membership shopping warehouse clubs in the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, and Colombia. Its warehouse clubs sell brand name and private label consumer products, essential goods, fresh produce, prepared foods, and fresh-baked goods, as well as provides services, such as optical, tire center, and other ancillary services. The company also operates Click & Go, an e-commerce platform for online ordering, curbside pickup, and delivery services. As of March 29, 2022, it operated 49 warehouse clubs in 12 countries and one U.S. territory. PriceSmart, Inc.

was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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