Correlation Analysis
Principal Financial Group, Inc. vs Exxon Mobil Corporation
PFG vs XOM
+0.788
Strong positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
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
Exxon Mobil Corporation
↗XOM
ExxonMobil is an integrated oil and gas company that explores for, produces, and refines oil worldwide. In 2025, it produced 3.3 million barrels of liquids and 8.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. At the end of 2024, reserves were 19.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent, 69% of which were liquids. The company is one of the world's largest refiners, with a total global refining capacity of 4.3 million barrels of oil per day, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers of commodity and specialty chemicals.
Market cap 680.7B
Time Series
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
in sync
PFG and XOM tend to move at the same time.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was +0.788 (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
-0.126
17 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
-0.311
10 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.713
8 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
62.1%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
64.0%
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: [0.766, 0.808]
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
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
PFG
Market cap 19.8B · 19,700 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
Exxon Mobil Corporation
XOM
Market cap 680.7B
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
63
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
2.1556
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
-65.4649
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
PFG
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
Highest
+0.657
Eli Lilly & Co.
LLY · 1,254 data points
Lowest
+0.224
Tesla, Inc. Common Stock
TSLA · 1,254 data points
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