Correlation Analysis
HP Inc. vs Micron Technology, Inc.
HPQ vs MU
-0.545
Moderate inverse
When one moves up, the other tends to move down.
HP Inc.
↗HPQ
HP (formerly Hewlett-Packard) is a behemoth in the PC and printing markets. It has focused on these markets since it exited IT infrastructure in 2015 with the split from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HP focuses on the commercial market, but maintains sales of consumer devices and printers. The firm has a broad and global customer base, with only one third of sales coming from the US. HP completely outsources manufacturing and relies heavily on channel partners for its sales and marketing.
Market cap 17.3B · 55,000 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
in sync
HPQ and MU tend to move at the same time.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was -0.545 (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
-0.116
10 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.380
14 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.624
11 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
29.7%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
65.6%
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: [-0.583, -0.505]
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
HP Inc.
HPQ
Market cap 17.3B · 55,000 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
3
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
-9.0947
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
381.4266
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
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