Correlation Analysis
Nvidia Corp vs American Water Works Company, Inc
NVDA vs AWK
-0.513
Moderate inverse
When one moves up, the other tends to move down.
Nvidia Corp
↗NVDA
Nvidia is a leading developer of graphics processing units. Traditionally, GPUs were used to enhance the experience on computing platforms, most notably in gaming applications on PCs. GPU use cases have since emerged as important semiconductors used in artificial intelligence to run large language models. Nvidia not only offers AI GPUs, but also a software platform, Cuda, used for AI model development and training. Nvidia is also expanding its data center networking solutions, helping to tie GPUs together to handle complex workloads.
Market cap 4.3T
American Water Works Company, Inc
↗AWK
American Water Works is the largest investor-owned US water and wastewater utility, serving nearly 4 million customers in 14 states. It provides water and wastewater services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers and operates predominantly in regulated markets. The company's nonregulated business is water services for military bases, which operates under long-term contracts with regulated-like returns. The proposed Essential Utilities acquisition would add regulated water and wastewater utilities in Ohio, North Carolina, and Texas while increasing its presence in Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia.
Market cap 26.9B · 7,000 employees
Who Moves First
AWK leads NVDA by 6 days
AWK tends to move before NVDA.
Best correlation after shifting: -0.514 (13 shifts scanned)
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
-0.397
12 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.406
7 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.836
16 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
26.3%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
49.4%
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: [-0.553, -0.471]
Time Series
Rebased to 100
Scatter
XY Regression
Pipeline
Data quality details
Pipeline
Data quality details
Pipeline Summary
1,254 paired observations 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
Nvidia Corp
NVDA
Market cap 4.3T
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
American Water Works Company, Inc
AWK
Market cap 26.9B · 7,000 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
1
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
-0.1293
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
153.9020
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
NVDA
Nvidia Corp
Highest
+0.983
Arista Networks
ANET · 1,254 observations
Lowest
-0.910
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UPS · 1,254 observations
AWK
American Water Works Company, Inc
Highest
+0.053
Johnson & Johnson
JNJ · 1,254 observations
Lowest
-0.720
Exxon Mobil Corporation
XOM · 1,254 observations
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