Correlation Analysis
American Water Works Company, Inc vs Micron Technology, Inc.
AWK vs MU
-0.308
Light inverse
When one moves up, the other tends to move down.
American Water Works Company, Inc
↗AWK
American Water Works is the largest investor-owned US water and wastewater utility, serving nearly 4 million customers in 14 states. It provides water and wastewater services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers and operates predominantly in regulated markets. The company's nonregulated business is water services for military bases, which operates under long-term contracts with regulated-like returns. The proposed Essential Utilities acquisition would add regulated water and wastewater utilities in Ohio, North Carolina, and Texas while increasing its presence in Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia.
Market cap 26.9B · 7,000 employees
Micron Technology, Inc.
↗MU
Micron is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world, specializing in memory and storage chips. Its primary revenue stream comes from dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, and it also has minority exposure to not-and or NAND, flash chips. Micron serves a global customer base, selling chips into data centers, mobile phones, consumer electronics, and industrial and automotive applications. The firm is vertically integrated.
Market cap 426B · 53,000 employees
Time Series
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
AWK leads MU by 6 days
AWK tends to move before MU.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was -0.315 (they moved in opposite directions).
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
-0.275
6 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
-0.272
8 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.513
21 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
9.5%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
51.1%
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: [-0.357, -0.257]
Scatter
XY Regression
Pipeline
Data quality details
Pipeline
Data quality details
Pipeline Summary
1,254 paired data points 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
American Water Works Company, Inc
AWK
Market cap 26.9B · 7,000 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
Micron Technology, Inc.
MU
Market cap 426B · 53,000 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
33
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
-1.5414
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
329.1690
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
AWK
American Water Works Company, Inc
Highest
+0.053
Johnson & Johnson
JNJ · 1,254 data points
Lowest
-0.720
Exxon Mobil Corporation
XOM · 1,254 data points
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