Correlation Analysis
Nvidia Corp vs Principal Financial Group, Inc.
NVDA vs PFG
+0.583
Moderate positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
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
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
↗PFG
Principal Financial Group Inc is a financial services provider. It offers various financial products and services including retirement, asset management, and workplace benefits and protection solutions to individuals and institutional clients. The company, along with its subsidiaries, operates in the following reportable segments; Retirement and Income Solutions, Principal Asset Management, and Benefits and Protection. Maximum revenue is generated from the Retirement and Income Solutions segment which provides workplace savings and retirement solutions, banking, trust and custodial services, individual variable annuities (including RILAs), pension risk transfer, and investment services to businesses, their employees, and other individuals.
Market cap 19.8B · 19,700 employees
Time Series
Rebased to 100
Who Moves First
in sync
NVDA and PFG tend to move at the same time.
Best correlation after shifting: +0.583 (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
-0.249
17 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.666
7 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.451
11 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
34.0%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
58.5%
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: [0.546, 0.619]
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
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
PFG
Market cap 19.8B · 19,700 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
0.0775
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
71.5451
Linear regression intercept.
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Highest and Lowest Correlated
NVDA
Nvidia Corp
Highest
+0.983
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ANET · 1,254 observations
Lowest
-0.910
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UPS · 1,254 observations
PFG
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
Highest
+0.788
Exxon Mobil Corporation
XOM · 1,254 observations
Lowest
+0.224
Tesla, Inc. Common Stock
TSLA · 1,254 observations
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