SeriesMagCorrOverlapThrough
These move together about 68% of the time
Strong positive
Strong enough to use as a signal — read the stability and regime notes below before relying on it.
Applied Materials is the largest semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment manufacturer in the world. It has a broad portfolio spanning nearly every corner of the WFE ecosystem. Applied Materials holds leading market share in deposition, which entails the layering of new materials on semiconductor wafers. It is more exposed to general-purpose logic chips made at integrated device manufacturers and foundries. It counts the largest chipmakers in the world as customers, including TSMC, Intel, and Samsung.
Market cap 321.3B · 36,500 employees
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What to Watch
Decouples in drawdowns
Correlation weakens when both fall (+23%) vs when both rise (+46%) — don't count on this pair as a hedge under stress.
Regime-dependent
The correlation has flipped sign across time windows — not reliable as a standalone signal.
Time Series
Time-Shifted Correlation
See how correlation changes when one series is offset in time. A taller bar at a non-zero shift means the two move together better when one leads the other — that's a potential lead/lag signal.
Correlation by shift
Click a bar to inspect. Range: -6 to 6 days.
Selected shift
No shift
Correlation at this shift
+84%
No shift — both series at their actual dates.
1,255 overlapping points at this shift
Time series with Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF at original dates
Indexed to 100 at start
Deep Dive
Stability
How the correlation evolves over time. A stable line means the relationship is reliable; large swings signal regime-dependent behavior.
Corr
+84%
Pearson correlation
95% CI
+82% → +86%
Likely range
R²
70.7%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
68.0%
Same-direction moves
Significance
p < 0.001
Statistical confidence
Data points
1,255
Deep
Pipeline
Pipeline Summary
1,255 paired data points survived the daily window.
Raw input
1,255
1,255
Normalized
1,255
1,255
Prepared
1,255
1,255
Aligned
1,255
1,255
Invalid removed
Explore
The strongest positive and inverse pairs we’ve saved for each side of this comparison — good jumping-off points if this result raised a question.
Do They Crash Together?
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
+46%
99 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+23%
94 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-56%
56 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
Scatter
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Duplicates removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Alignment drops
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Series A
Applied Materials Inc
AMAT
Market cap 321.3B · 36,500 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Series B
Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF
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Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
35
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.1964
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
85.5289
Linear regression intercept.
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Strongest positive