SeriesMagCorrOverlapThrough
These move together about 70% of the time
Strong positive
Strong enough to use as a signal — read the stability and regime notes below before relying on it.
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Market cap 4.7T · 190,820 employees
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What to Watch
Drifting from pattern
Recent correlation (-12%) is running 1.5σ away from the long-run average of +70%.
Holds across regimes
Correlation is similar when markets rise (+43%) and fall (+40%) — 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
+70%
No shift — both series at their actual dates.
1,125 overlapping points at this shift
Time series with Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock 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
+70%
Pearson correlation
95% CI
+67% → +73%
Likely range
R²
49.7%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
69.5%
Same-direction moves
Significance
p < 0.001
Statistical confidence
Data points
1,125
Deep
Pipeline
Pipeline Summary
1,125 paired data points survived the daily window.
Raw input
1,255
1,125
Normalized
1,255
1,125
Prepared
1,255
1,125
Aligned
1,125
1,125
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.
Market cap 1.7T · 78,865 employees
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
+43%
108 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+40%
88 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-61%
53 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
Scatter
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Duplicates removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Alignment drops
130
A: 130 / B: 0
Series A
Alphabet Inc. Class A Common Stock
GOOGL
Market cap 4.7T · 190,820 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Series B
Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock
META
Market cap 1.7T · 78,865 employees
Stock · 1,125 raw → 1,125 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
2
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
2.6861
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
-54.8998
Linear regression intercept.
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META
Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock
Strongest positive