Correlation Analysis
NetFlix Inc vs United Parcel Service, Inc. Class B
NFLX vs UPS
-0.813
Strong inverse
When one moves up, the other tends to move down.
NetFlix Inc
↗NFLX
Netflix's relatively simple business model involves only one business, its streaming service. It has the biggest television entertainment subscriber base in both the United States and the collective international market, with more than 300 million subscribers globally. Netflix has exposure to nearly the entire global population outside of China. The firm has traditionally avoided a regular slate of live programming or sports content, instead focusing on on-demand access to episodic television, movies, and documentaries. The firm introduced ad-supported subscription plans in 2022, giving the firm exposure to the advertising market in addition to the subscription fees that have historically accounted for nearly all its revenue.
Market cap 417.7B
United Parcel Service, Inc. Class B
↗UPS
As the world's largest parcel delivery company, UPS manages a massive fleet of more than 500 planes and 100,000 vehicles, along with many hundreds of sorting facilities, to deliver an average of about 22 million packages per day to residences and businesses across the globe. UPS' domestic US package operations generate around 65% of total revenue, while international package makes up 20%. Air and ocean freight forwarding and contract logistics make up the remainder.
Market cap 82.6B · 460,000 employees
Time Series
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
UPS leads NFLX by 6 days
UPS tends to move before NFLX.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was -0.819 (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
+0.332
10 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
-0.016
5 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.485
20 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
66.1%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
53.6%
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: [-0.831, -0.793]
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
NetFlix Inc
NFLX
Market cap 417.7B
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
United Parcel Service, Inc. Class B
UPS
Market cap 82.6B · 460,000 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
7
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
-1.0547
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
220.5813
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
NFLX
NetFlix Inc
Highest
+0.928
Royal Caribbean Group
RCL · 1,254 data points
Lowest
-0.749
Constellation Brands, Inc.
STZ · 1,254 data points
UPS
United Parcel Service, Inc. Class B
Highest
-0.213
Johnson & Johnson
JNJ · 1,254 data points
Lowest
-0.939
Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock
META · 1,107 data points
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