Correlation Analysis
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. vs Micron Technology, Inc.
IFF vs MU
-0.368
Light inverse
When one moves up, the other tends to move down.
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
↗IFF
International Flavors & Fragrances is the largest specialty ingredients producer globally. It sells ingredients for the food, beverage, health, household goods, personal care, and pharmaceutical industries. The company makes proprietary formulations, partnering with customers to deliver custom solutions. Through its taste and scent segments, which each generate around 25% of profits, IFF is a leading flavor and fragrances producer. The health and biosciences business, which generates 30% of profits, is a global leader in probiotics and enzymes. The remaining profits come from the food ingredients business, which sells texturants, plant-based proteins, and other ingredients, though IFF plans to divest this business in the future.
Market cap 18.3B · 21,500 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
IFF leads MU by 6 days
IFF tends to move before MU.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was -0.378 (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
+0.503
9 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.388
11 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.417
15 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
13.5%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
59.6%
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: [-0.414, -0.319]
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
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
IFF
Market cap 18.3B · 21,500 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
29
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
-1.0463
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
209.9200
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
IFF
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
Highest
-0.097
Johnson & Johnson
JNJ · 1,254 data points
Lowest
-0.814
Exxon Mobil Corporation
XOM · 1,254 data points
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