These move together about 60% of the time
Strong positive
Strong enough to use as a signal — read the stability and regime notes below before relying on it.
Wireless services account for 75% of Verizon Communications' total service revenue and nearly all of its operating income. The firm serves about 94 million postpaid and 20 million prepaid phone customers via its nationwide network, making it the largest US wireless carrier. Fixed-line telecom operations include local networks in the Northeast that reach about 30 million homes and businesses, including about 20 million served by the Fios fiber-optic network. Verizon closed its acquisition of Frontier Communications in January, adding networks that reach another 15 million locations, including 9 million with fiber. These networks serve about 11 million broadband customers. Verizon also provide
Market cap 197.3B · 89,900 employees
With assets of around $700 billion, U.S. Bancorp is one of the largest regional banks in the US with its footprint in 26 states. The bank's branch network is mostly in Midwestern and Western markets. U.S. Bancorp has a comprehensive product set, with offerings in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, mortgages, payment services, trust, wealth, and capital market services.
What to Watch
Drifting from pattern
Recent correlation (+31%) is running 1.4σ away from the long-run average of +83%.
Holds across regimes
Correlation is similar when markets rise (+12%) and fall (+16%) — 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
+83%
No shift — both series at their actual dates.
1,255 overlapping points at this shift
Time series with U.S. Bancorp 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
+83%
Pearson correlation
95% CI
+81% → +85%
Likely range
R²
68.8%
Variance explained
Trend agreement
59.6%
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 87.4B · 68,520 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%
100 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+16%
90 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-43%
59 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
Verizon Communications
VZ
Market cap 197.3B · 89,900 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Series B
U.S. Bancorp
USB
Market cap 87.4B · 68,520 employees
Stock · 1,255 raw → 1,255 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
71
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
1.0036
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
3.0469
Linear regression intercept.
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USB
U.S. Bancorp
Strongest positive