cat in a dogs world (MEW) is 734.3× the size of CATO (CATO) by market capitalisation. Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.00 across 32 shared trading days). MEW has been the more volatile of the two, at 98% annualised against CATO's 81%.
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0.00over 32 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 | CATO | MEW |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -41.7% | -24.8% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.63 | -0.09 |
Relative strength over 90 days: MEW outperformed CATO by 3.0% — measured on the CATO/MEW ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.