SeriesMagCorrOverlapThrough
These move together about 57% of the time
Moderate positive
A real but noisy link — useful as context, risky as a standalone signal.
McDonald's is the world's largest restaurant brand, with nearly $139 billion in systemwide sales across more than 45,000 restaurants and over 100 markets. The quick-service chain built its early reputation on speed, consistency, and affordable hamburgers, and today its global menu spans burgers, chicken, breakfast, and beverages that have helped popularize American fast-food cuisine worldwide. The firm derives the bulk of its revenue from franchise royalties and rent (about 62%), with the remainder stemming from company-operated restaurants across three segments: the United States (39% of systemwide sales), international operated markets (35%), and international developmental/licensed market
Market cap 206.3B · 150,000 employees
Sony Group is a conglomerate with consumer electronics roots, which not only designs, develops, produces, and sells electronic equipment and devices, but also is engaged in content businesses, such as console and mobile games, music, and movies. Sony is the global top company of CMOS image sensors, game consoles, professional broadcasting cameras, and music publishing, and is one of the top players on digital cameras, wireless earphones, recorded music, movies, and so on. Sony's business portfolio is well diversified with five major business segments.
What to Watch
Unusual right now
Recent correlation (-19%) is 2.3σ from the long-run average of +46% — pair is behaving differently than usual.
Holds across regimes
Correlation is similar when markets rise (+12%) and fall (+11%) — 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
+46%
No shift — both series at their actual dates.
1,255 overlapping points at this shift
Time series with Sony Group Corporation American Depositary Shares (Each Representing One Share of Dollar Validated 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
+46%
Pearson correlation
95% CI
+42% → +50%
Likely range
R²
21.3%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
56.7%
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 116.9B · 112,300 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
+12%
80 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+11%
80 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-66%
89 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
McDonald's Corporation
MCD
Market cap 206.3B · 150,000 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Series B
Sony Group Corporation American Depositary Shares (Each Representing One Share of Dollar Validated Common Stock)
SONY
Market cap 116.9B · 112,300 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
29
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
0.0673
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
1.5448
Linear regression intercept.
Saved 57 minutes ago · ID: stock-mcd_stock-sony_5y
SONY
Sony Group Corporation American Depositary Shares (Each Representing One Share of Dollar Validated Common Stock)
Strongest positive