The Sandbox (SAND) is 3.3× the size of Metaplex (MPLX) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, MPLX is ahead by 6.5 percentage points (MPLX -68.3% against SAND -74.8%). Their daily returns move barely together (correlation 0.34 across 373 shared trading days). MPLX has been the more volatile of the two, at 143% annualised against SAND's 103%.
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0.34over 373 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 | MPLX | SAND |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -93.9% | -88.4% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 1.04 | 0.07 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +171.3% | +94.1% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -62.7% | -48.8% |
Relative strength over 90 days: MPLX outperformed SAND by 208.4% — measured on the MPLX/SAND ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.