Correlation Analysis
VISA Inc. vs Western Digital Corp.
V vs WDC
+0.463
Moderate positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
VISA Inc.
↗V
Visa is the largest payment processor in the world. In fiscal 2025, it processed almost $17 trillion in total volume. Visa operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 160 currencies. Its systems are capable of processing over 65,000 transactions per second.
Market cap 583.4B
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
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
V leads WDC by 6 days
V tends to move before WDC.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was +0.482 (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
-0.160
11 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.823
9 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.730
15 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
21.5%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
60.3%
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: [0.419, 0.506]
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
VISA Inc.
V
Market cap 583.4B
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
24
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.4694
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
-52.6748
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
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