These move together about 65% of the time
Very strong positive
Strong enough to use as a signal — read the stability and regime notes below before relying on it.
As the world's largest parcel delivery company, UPS manages a massive fleet of more than 500 planes and 100,000 vehicles, along with many hundreds of sorting facilities, to deliver an average of about 22 million packages per day to residences and businesses across the globe. UPS' domestic US package operations generate around 65% of total revenue, while international package makes up 20%. Air and ocean freight forwarding and contract logistics make up the remainder.
Market cap 88.3B · 460,000 employees
Nike is the largest athletic footwear and apparel brand in the world. Footwear generates about two-thirds of its sales. Key performance footwear categories include basketball, running, and football (soccer). Its brands include Nike, Jordan (premium athletic footwear and clothing), NikeSkims (women's athleisure), and Converse (casual footwear). Nike sells products worldwide through company-owned stores, franchised stores (including about 5,500 in China), and third-party retailers. The firm also operates e-commerce platforms in more than 40 countries. Nearly all its production is outsourced to contract manufacturers in more than 30 countries. Nike was founded in 1964 and is based in Beaverton,
What to Watch
Unusual right now
Recent correlation (-8%) is 5.8σ from the long-run average of +90% — pair is behaving differently than usual.
Holds across regimes
Correlation is similar when markets rise (+22%) and fall (+15%) — reliable in both directions.
Mostly stable
Correlation drifts a little but stays in the same neighbourhood.
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 Nike, Inc. 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
65.2%
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.
Market cap 66.8B · 77,800 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
+22%
94 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+15%
103 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-27%
52 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
United Parcel Service, Inc. Class B
UPS
Market cap 88.3B · 460,000 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Series B
Nike, Inc.
NKE
Market cap 66.8B · 77,800 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
58
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.7239
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
-9.7860
Linear regression intercept.
Saved 1 hour ago · ID: stock-nke_stock-ups_5y
NKE
Nike, Inc.
Strongest positive