Correlation Analysis
Caterpillar Inc. vs JPMorgan Chase & Co.
CAT vs JPM
+0.884
Very strong positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
Caterpillar Inc.
↗CAT
Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Its reporting segments are construction, resource, energy, and transportation. Market share approaches 20% across many products. Caterpillar operates a captive finance subsidiary to facilitate sales. The firm has a global reach that is approximately evenly balanced between the US and the rest of the world. Construction skews more domestic, while the other divisions are more geographically diversified. An independent network of over 150 dealers operates approximately 2,800 facilities, giving Caterpillar reach into about 190 countries for sales and support services.
Market cap 335.6B
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
↗JPM
JPMorgan Chase is one of the largest and most complex financial institutions in the United States, with more than $4.4 trillion in assets. It is organized into four major segments: consumer and community banking, corporate and investment banking, commercial banking, and asset and wealth management. JPMorgan operates and is subject to regulation in multiple countries.
Market cap 792.5B
Time Series
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
JPM leads CAT by 6 days
JPM tends to move before CAT.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was +0.885 (they moved in the same direction).
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
+0.261
16 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.732
9 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.458
10 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
78.1%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
69.9%
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: [0.871, 0.895]
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
Caterpillar Inc.
CAT
Market cap 335.6B
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPM
Market cap 792.5B
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
37
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.4278
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
57.1612
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
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