Correlation Analysis
Micron Technology, Inc. vs Philip Morris International Inc.
MU vs PM
+0.655
Strong positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
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
Philip Morris International Inc.
↗PM
Created from the international operations of Altria in 2008, Philip Morris International sells cigarettes and reduced-risk products, including heat sticks, vapes, and oral nicotine offerings, primarily outside of the US. With the 2023 acquisition of Swedish Match, a leading manufacturer of traditional oral tobacco products and nicotine pouches primarily in the US and Scandinavia, PMI is not only dominant in smokable products but also has the Iqos and Zyn brands, which respectively dominate heated tobacco and nicotine pouches in most markets. It also owns the Veev brand in vapes.
Market cap 249.9B
Time Series
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
PM leads MU by 6 days
PM tends to move before MU.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was +0.659 (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
+0.535
10 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.795
8 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.784
17 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
42.9%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
53.1%
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: [0.622, 0.685]
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
Micron Technology, Inc.
MU
Market cap 426B · 53,000 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
Philip Morris International Inc.
PM
Market cap 249.9B
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
0.2477
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
89.0427
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
MU
Micron Technology, Inc.
Highest
+0.982
Western Digital Corp.
WDC · 1,254 data points
Lowest
-0.640
Constellation Brands, Inc.
STZ · 1,254 data points
PM
Philip Morris International Inc.
Highest
+0.923
Walmart Inc. Common Stock
WMT · 1,254 data points
Lowest
+0.461
Johnson & Johnson
JNJ · 1,254 data points
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