Correlation Analysis
Mastercard Incorporated vs Mettler-Toledo International
MA vs MTD
-0.198
Weak inverse
When one moves up, the other tends to move down.
Mastercard Incorporated
↗MA
Mastercard is the second-largest payment processor in the world, having processed close to $11 trillion in volume during 2025. Mastercard operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 150 currencies.
Market cap 447.2B
Mettler-Toledo International
↗MTD
Mettler-Toledo supplies weighing and precision instruments to customers in the life sciences (around 55% of sales), industrial (around 40%), and food retail (around 5%) industries. Its products include laboratory and retail scales, pipettes, pH meters, thermal analysis equipment, titrators, metal detectors, and X-ray analyzers. Mettler leads the market for weighing instrumentation and controls more than 50% of the market for lab balances. The business is geographically diversified, with the Americas accounting for about 37% of sales, Europe about 27%, China about 16% and the rest of the world about 20%.
Market cap 25.6B · 18,100 employees
Time Series
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
MTD leads MA by 6 days
MTD tends to move before MA.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was -0.216 (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
+0.141
12 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.743
10 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.759
13 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
3.9%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
64.7%
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: [-0.251, -0.144]
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
Mastercard Incorporated
MA
Market cap 447.2B
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
Mettler-Toledo International
MTD
Market cap 25.6B · 18,100 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
54
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
-0.3230
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
1465.5841
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
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