W. P. Carey Inc (WPC) Historical Volatility

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

W. P. Carey ranks among the largest net lease REITs with an enterprise value of approximately $18 billion and a diversified portfolio of operationally-critical commercial real estate that includes 1,215 net lease properties covering approximately 142 million square feet as of September 30, 2020. For nearly five decades, the company has invested in high-quality single-tenant industrial, warehouse, office, retail and self-storage properties subject to long-term net leases with built-in rent escalators. Its portfolio is located primarily in the U.S. and Northern and Western Europe and is well-diversified by tenant, property type, geographic location and tenant industry.

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