Circle Internet Group (Ondo Tokenized Stock) (CRCLON) is 839.4× the size of Home Depot xStock (HDX) by market capitalisation. Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.19 across 35 shared trading days). CRCLON has been the more volatile of the two, at 97% annualised against HDX's 32%.
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0.19over 35 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 | HDX | CRCLON |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -24.6% | -30.7% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | -0.66 | 0.06 |
Relative strength over 90 days: CRCLON outperformed HDX by 27.1% — measured on the HDX/CRCLON ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.