Correlation Analysis
Tesla, Inc. Common Stock vs Western Digital Corp.
TSLA vs WDC
+0.585
Moderate positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
Tesla, Inc. Common Stock
↗TSLA
Tesla is a vertically integrated battery electric vehicle automaker and developer of real world artificial intelligence software, which includes autonomous driving and humanoid robots. The company has multiple vehicles in its fleet, which include luxury and midsize sedans, crossover SUVs, a light truck, and a semi truck. Tesla also plans to begin selling a sports car and offer a robotaxi service. Global deliveries in 2025 were nearly 1.64 million vehicles. The company sells batteries for stationary storage for residential and commercial properties including utilities and solar panels and solar roofs for energy generation. Tesla also owns a fast-charging network and an auto insurance business.
Market cap 1.3T
Western Digital Corp.
↗WDC
Western Digital is a leading vertically integrated supplier of hard disk drives. The HDD market is a practical duopoly, with Western Digital and Seagate being the two largest players. Western Digital designs and manufactures its HDDs, with much of the manufacturing and workforce located in Asia. The primary consumers of HDDs are data centers.
Market cap 103.1B · 40,000 employees
Time Series
Rebased to 100
Who Moves First
TSLA leads WDC by 6 days
TSLA tends to move before WDC.
Best correlation after shifting: +0.597 (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
+0.486
10 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.518
7 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.466
18 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
34.3%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
61.0%
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: [0.548, 0.621]
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
Tesla, Inc. Common Stock
TSLA
Market cap 1.3T
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
Western Digital Corp.
WDC
Market cap 103.1B · 40,000 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
42
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.3689
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
-30.1684
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
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