The Sandbox (SAND) is 4.9× the size of WAX (WAXP) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, WAXP is ahead by 14.0 percentage points (WAXP -60.9% against SAND -74.8%). Their daily returns move loosely together (correlation 0.58 across 399 shared trading days). SAND has been the more volatile of the two, at 103% annualised against WAXP's 76%.
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0.58over 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 | WAXP | SAND |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -80.6% | -88.4% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.13 | 0.07 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +55.0% | +94.1% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -39.3% | -48.8% |
Relative strength over 90 days: SAND outperformed WAXP by 0.6% — measured on the WAXP/SAND ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.