Lido DAO (LDO) is 4.5× the size of Babylon (BABY) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, BABY is ahead by 3.8 percentage points (BABY -51.4% against LDO -55.1%). Their daily returns move loosely together (correlation 0.40 across 399 shared trading days). BABY has been the more volatile of the two, at 111% annualised against LDO's 95%.
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0.40over 399 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 | BABY | LDO |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -83.3% | -81.5% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.09 | 0.14 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +50.6% | +58.2% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -46.1% | -51.2% |
Relative strength over 90 days: LDO outperformed BABY by 4.0% — measured on the BABY/LDO ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.