Correlation Analysis
Freeport-McMoran Inc. vs VISA Inc.
FCX vs V
+0.409
Moderate positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
Freeport-McMoran Inc.
↗FCX
Freeport-McMoRan owns stakes in 10 copper mines, led by its 49% ownership of the Grasberg copper and gold operations in Indonesia, 55% of the Cerro Verde mine in Peru, and 72% of Morenci in Arizona. It sold around 1.1 million metric tons of copper (its share) in 2025, making it the one of the world's largest copper miners by volume. It also sold about 530,000 ounces of gold, mostly from Grasberg, and 74 million pounds of molybdenum. It had about 25 years of copper reserves at the end of December 2025. We expect it to sell about 1.3 million metric tons of copper and 610,000 ounces of gold midcycle in 2030.
Market cap 87.7B · 29,000 employees
VISA Inc.
↗V
Visa is the largest payment processor in the world. In fiscal 2025, it processed almost $17 trillion in total volume. Visa operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 160 currencies. Its systems are capable of processing over 65,000 transactions per second.
Market cap 583.4B
Time Series
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
V leads FCX by 6 days
V tends to move before FCX.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was +0.416 (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
-0.153
10 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.364
8 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.808
17 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
16.7%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
61.2%
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: [0.362, 0.454]
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
Freeport-McMoran Inc.
FCX
Market cap 87.7B · 29,000 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
VISA Inc.
V
Market cap 583.4B
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
23
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
2.9909
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
140.1149
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
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