Correlation Analysis

Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock vs Microsoft Corp

META vs MSFT

These move together about 71% of the time

Very strong positive

r+0.893

Strong enough to use as a signal — read the stability and regime notes below before relying on it.

Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock

META

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

Microsoft Corp

MSFT

Microsoft develops and licenses consumer and enterprise software. It is known for its Windows operating systems and Office productivity suite. The company is organized into three equally sized broad segments: productivity and business processes (legacy Microsoft Office, cloud-based Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype, LinkedIn, Dynamics), intelligence cloud (infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings Azure, Windows Server OS, SQL Server), and more personal computing (Windows Client, Xbox, Bing search, display advertising, and Surface laptops, tablets, and desktops).

Jun 30, 2021 — Apr 7, 2026Daily1,107 data pointsStockStockTechnologyTechnology

What to Watch

MSFT moves ~6 days before META
Watch MSFT for an early read on META.
Decouples in drawdowns
Correlation weakens when both fall (-0.05) vs when both rise (+0.28) — don't count on this pair as a hedge under stress.

Time Series

Relative Performance

Green: METAGray: MSFT36 of 1,107 points (sampled)

Time-Shifted Correlation

Does one move ahead of the other?

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.

Peak shiftSame directionOpposite

Selected shift

-6 days

Correlation at this shift

+0.893

+0.00 stronger than no-shift baseline

Microsoft Corp shifted 6 days later. Reads: "Does Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock today line up with Microsoft Corp 6 days ago?"

1,101 overlapping points at this shift

Time series with Microsoft Corp shifted 6 days later

Indexed to 100 at start

Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common StockMicrosoft Corp (shifted)

Deep Dive

Stability · regime · scatter

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

+0.276

17 periods · Return correlation when both series rose

Both Falling

-0.047

9 periods · Return correlation when both series fell

Diverging

-0.746

9 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart

Scatter

XY Regression

Statistics

+0.893

Pearson correlation

95% CI

0.88 → 0.90

Likely range

R²

79.7%

Variance explained

Trend agreement

70.6%

Same-direction moves

Significance

p < 0.001

Statistical confidence

Data points

1,107

Deep

Pipeline

Data quality details

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

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