Axie Infinity (AXS) is 6.8× the size of Yield Guild Games (YGG) by market capitalisation. Over the past 1 year, AXS is ahead by 50.1 percentage points (YGG -76.1% against AXS -26.0%). Their daily returns move loosely together (correlation 0.56 across 399 shared trading days). AXS has been the more volatile of the two, at 121% annualised against YGG's 93%.
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0.56over 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 | YGG | AXS |
|---|---|---|
| Max drawdown (400d) | -90.5% | -72.0% |
| Risk-adjusted return (90d) | 0.37 | -0.02 |
| Best 30 days (past year) | +32.5% | +248.7% |
| Worst 30 days (past year) | -48.2% | -55.5% |
Relative strength over 90 days: YGG outperformed AXS by 32.0% — measured on the YGG/AXS ratio, so it holds regardless of market direction.