Aster (ASTER) is 4730.9× the size of Aark Digital (AARK) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, ASTER is ahead by 73.0 percentage points (AARK -96.4% against ASTER -23.5%). Their daily returns move barely in opposite directions (correlation -0.08 across 368 shared trading days). AARK has been the more volatile of the two, at 323% annualised against ASTER's 90%.
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-0.08over 368 shared trading days
Measured on daily returns rather than on prices. Two assets that both simply trend upward score near 1.0 on raw prices whether or not they move together, so returns are what answer the question people mean by correlation.
| Metric | AARK | ASTER |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -99.2% | -77.3% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.26 | 0.31 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +102.0% | +47.6% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -87.2% | -51.6% |
Relative strength over 90 days: ASTER outperformed AARK by 91.7% — measured on the AARK/ASTER ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.