Correlation Analysis
Johnson & Johnson vs The Sherwin-Williams Company
JNJ vs SHW
+0.117
Weak positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
Johnson & Johnson
↗JNJ
Johnson & Johnson is the world's largest and most diverse healthcare firm. It has two divisions: innovative medicine and medtech. These now represent all of the company's sales following the divestment of the consumer business, Kenvue, in 2023. After restructurings in 2023-24, the drug division focuses on three main therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, and neurology. Geographically, just over half of total revenue is generated in the United States.
Market cap 580.4B
The Sherwin-Williams Company
↗SHW
Sherwin-Williams is the largest provider of architectural paint in the United States. The company has over 4,800 stores and sells premium paint at higher price points than most competitors. Sherwin-Williams also sells paint-related products in big-box stores and provides coatings for original equipment manufacturers.
Market cap 78.3B · 64,249 employees
Time Series
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
SHW leads JNJ by 6 days
SHW tends to move before JNJ.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was +0.123 (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
+0.399
11 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
-0.335
10 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.787
14 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
1.4%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
59.3%
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: [0.062, 0.171]
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
Johnson & Johnson
JNJ
Market cap 580.4B
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
The Sherwin-Williams Company
SHW
Market cap 78.3B · 64,249 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
22
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.2926
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
249.4864
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
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JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
Highest
+0.943
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Lowest
-0.621
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
KMB · 1,254 data points
SHW
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Highest
+0.862
Amazon.Com Inc
AMZN · 1,254 data points
Lowest
+0.265
Exxon Mobil Corporation
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