Notably, having begun Q3 2025 at $2.23, the recent closing price meant that $XRP gained an impressive 27.16% in the quarter. This makes it the best-performing quarter so far this year.
$XRP Performs Best in Q4
Interestingly, further data shared by Mr. Xoom also reveals that $XRP tends to perform best during Q4, the last quarter of each year. Market commentators have often commended $XRP for its susceptibility to rapid price spikes when investors least expect. Notably, most of these rapid price spikes have occurred in Q4.
Historically speaking, $XRP has had its biggest gains in Q4. pic.twitter.com/WLNHFvEoVB
— xoom (@Mr_Xoom) September 30, 2025
For instance, the latest of such explosive gains came in Q4 2024 (from October to December 2024), when $XRP soared by an impressive 240% to close above the $2 mark. Before then, Q4 2023 also saw some mild gains despite $XRP mostly underperforming throughout that year.
While the fourth quarter of each year from 2018 to 2022 was marred by losses, this was largely due to a fundamental weakness in $XRP’s price structure, which some attribute to suppression techniques. Before that, $XRP observed another explosive surge in Q4 2017, when it rallied 1,064%. This represented its highest-ever quarterly gain.
Notably, in Q4 2014, $XRP witnessed another 426% increase and a 150% rise the year before that. Overall, on average, $XRP has an average increase of 140% in the fourth quarter, making it its best-performing quarter historically.
Mr. Xoom’s commentary suggests that the outlook as $XRP enters another fourth quarter is predominantly bullish. If $XRP follows the 140% average increase in this quarter, it would end the year with a price of $6.81, representing a new all-time high and marking a yearly increase of 228%.