Correlation Analysis
Moody's Corporation vs Micron Technology, Inc.
MCO vs MU
+0.541
Moderate positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
Moody's Corporation
↗MCO
Moody's, along with S&P Ratings, is a leading provider of credit ratings on fixed-income securities. The ratings segment, Moody's Investors Service, includes corporates, structured finance, financial institutions, and public finance ratings. MIS represents a majority of the firm's profit and often (depending on bond issuance levels) a majority of the firm's revenue. The other segment, Moody's Analytics, consists of decision solutions, research and insights, and data and information.
Market cap 79.1B · 5,300 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
MCO leads MU by 6 days
MCO tends to move before MU.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was +0.556 (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
-0.119
11 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.759
7 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.847
17 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
29.3%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
60.2%
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: [0.501, 0.579]
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
Moody's Corporation
MCO
Market cap 79.1B · 5,300 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
24
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.5434
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
-103.3465
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
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