Correlation Analysis
Broadcom Inc. Common Stock vs Watsco, Inc.
AVGO vs WSO
+0.573
Moderate positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
Broadcom Inc. Common Stock
↗AVGO
Broadcom is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world and has also expanded into infrastructure software. Its semiconductors primarily serve computing and networking, with custom AI accelerators now accounting for the bulk of the business. It is primarily a fabless designer, but holds some manufacturing in-house, such as for its best-of-breed film bulk acoustic resonator filters that sell into the Apple iPhone. In software, it sells virtualization, infrastructure, and security software to large enterprises, financial institutions, and governments. Broadcom is the product of consolidation. Its businesses are an amalgamation of former companies like legacy Broadcom and Avago Technologies in chips, as well as VMware, Brocade, CA Technologies, and Symantec in software.
Market cap 1.5T
Watsco, Inc.
↗WSO
Watsco is the largest HVAC and refrigeration products distributor in North America with approximately 13% market share. The company primarily operates in the United States (90% of revenue) with significant exposure in the Sunbelt states. Watsco also has operations in Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The company's customer base comprises more than 120,000 dealers and contractors serving the replacement and new-construction HVAC/R markets for residential and light-commercial applications. As much as 20% of residential HVAC units are distributed through Watsco in any given year. Revenue is approximately 75%-80% residential HVAC and 20%-25% commercial, with relatively small exposure to more complex "applied" solutions.
Market cap 15.4B · 7,050 employees
Time Series
Rebased to 100
Who Moves First
WSO leads AVGO by 6 days
WSO tends to move before AVGO.
Best correlation after shifting: +0.582 (13 shifts scanned)
Do They Crash Together?
Correlation by Market Regime
How these series behave when markets are rising, falling, or diverging. A correlation that holds in drawdowns is very different from one that only works in rallies.
Both Rising
-0.089
15 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
-0.074
7 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.565
13 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
32.8%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
61.9%
How often both series moved in the same direction period-to-period.
Overlap Quality
1,254
Deep shared window — 1,254 usable pairs.
Significance
p < 0.001
95% CI: [0.534, 0.609]
Scatter
XY Regression
Pipeline
Data quality details
Pipeline
Data quality details
Pipeline Summary
1,254 paired observations survived the daily window.
Raw input
1,254
1,254
Normalized
1,254
1,254
Prepared
1,254
1,254
Aligned
1,254
1,254
Invalid removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Duplicates removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Alignment drops
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Series A
Broadcom Inc. Common Stock
AVGO
Market cap 1.5T
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
Watsco, Inc.
WSO
Market cap 15.4B · 7,050 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
38
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.4805
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
299.7597
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
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