Correlation Analysis
First Solar, Inc. vs Micron Technology, Inc.
FSLR vs MU
+0.485
Moderate positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
First Solar, Inc.
↗FSLR
First Solar designs and manufactures solar photovoltaic panels, modules, and systems for use in utility-scale development projects. The company's solar modules use cadmium telluride to convert sunlight into electricity. This is commonly called thin-film technology. First Solar is the world's largest thin-film solar module manufacturer. It has production lines in Vietnam, Malaysia, the United States, and India.
Market cap 21B · 7,900 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
FSLR leads MU by 6 days
FSLR tends to move before MU.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was +0.500 (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
-0.099
10 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.079
10 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.625
15 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
23.5%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
60.9%
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: [0.441, 0.526]
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
First Solar, Inc.
FSLR
Market cap 21B · 7,900 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
26
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.6661
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
1.4296
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
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