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Correlation Analysis
META vs GOOG
These move together about 69% of the time
Strong positive
Strong enough to use as a signal — read the stability and regime notes below before relying on it.
Meta is the largest social media company in the world, boasting close to 4 billion monthly active users worldwide. The firm's "Family of Apps," its core business, consists of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. End users can leverage these applications for a variety of different purposes, from keeping in touch with friends to following celebrities and running digital businesses for free. Meta packages customer data, gleaned from its application ecosystem and sells ads to digital advertisers. While the firm has been investing heavily in its Reality Labs business, it remains a very small part of Meta's overall sales.
Market cap 1.4T
Alphabet is a holding company that wholly owns internet giant Google. The California-based company derives slightly less than 90% of its revenue from Google services, the vast majority of which is advertising sales. Alongside online ads, Google services houses sales stemming from Google's subscription services (YouTube TV and YouTube Music, among others), platforms (sales and in-app purchases on Play Store), and devices (Chromebooks, Pixel smartphones, and smart home products such as Chromecast). Google's cloud computing platform accounts for roughly 10% of Alphabet's revenue. The firm's investments in up-and-coming technologies such as self-driving cars (Waymo), health (Verily), and internet access (Google Fiber) make up the rest.
What to Watch
META moves ~6 days before GOOG
Watch META for an early read on GOOG.
Tighter in drawdowns
Pair moves more tightly when both fall (+0.84) than when both rise (+0.01) — typical risk-off behaviour.
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
+6 days
Correlation at this shift
+0.719
+0.01 stronger than no-shift baseline
Alphabet Inc. Class C Capital Stock shifted 6 days earlier. Reads: "Does Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock today line up with Alphabet Inc. Class C Capital Stock 6 days from now?"
1,101 overlapping points at this shift
Time series with Alphabet Inc. Class C Capital Stock shifted 6 days earlier
Indexed to 100 at start
Deep Dive
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
+0.012
19 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.841
6 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.735
10 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
Scatter
r
+0.711
Pearson correlation
95% CI
0.68 → 0.74
Likely range
R²
50.5%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
69.4%
Same-direction moves
Significance
p < 0.001
Statistical confidence
Data points
1,107
Deep
Pipeline
Pipeline Summary
1,107 paired data points survived the daily window.
Raw input
1,107
1,254
Normalized
1,107
1,254
Prepared
1,107
1,254
Aligned
1,107
1,107
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.
META
Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock
Strongest positive
No additional saved correlations yet.
Strongest inverse
No additional saved correlations yet.
GOOG
Alphabet Inc. Class C Capital Stock
Strongest positive
No additional saved correlations yet.
Strongest inverse
No additional saved correlations yet.
Market cap 3.6T · 190,820 employees
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Duplicates removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Alignment drops
147
A: 0 / B: 147
Series A
Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock
META
Market cap 1.4T
Stock · 1,107 raw → 1,107 prepared
Series B
Alphabet Inc. Class C Capital Stock
GOOG
Market cap 3.6T · 190,820 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
1
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.1757
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
95.6322
Linear regression intercept.
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