SeriesMagCorrOverlapThrough
These move together about 72% of the time
Very strong positive
Strong enough to use as a signal — read the stability and regime notes below before relying on it.
General Dynamics is a defense contractor and business jet manufacturer. The firm's segments are aerospace, marine, combat systems, and technologies. General Dynamics' aerospace segment manufactures Gulfstream business jets and operates a global aircraft servicing operation. Combat systems produces land-based combat vehicles such as the M1 Abrams tank and Stryker armored personnel carrier, as well as munitions. The marine segment builds and services nuclear-powered submarines, destroyers, and Navy support ships. The technologies segment contains two main units: an IT business that primarily serves the government market and a mission systems business focusing on electronics that provide comman
Market cap 84.6B · 117,000 employees
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What to Watch
Holds across regimes
Correlation is similar when markets rise (+31%) and fall (+44%) — reliable in both directions.
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
+90%
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
+90%
Pearson correlation
95% CI
+88% → +91%
Likely range
R²
80.2%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
71.6%
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
+31%
105 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+44%
98 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-65%
46 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
General Dynamics Corporation
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Market cap 84.6B · 117,000 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Series B
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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
41
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.2817
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
45.6152
Linear regression intercept.
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Strongest positive