Correlation Analysis Between Alcoa and Apple

Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Alcoa Corp. and Apple Inc in the same portfolio assuming nothing else is changed. The correlation between historical prices or returns on Apple and Alcoa is a relative statistical measure of the degree to which these equity instruments tend to move together. The correlation coefficient measures the extent to which returns on Alcoa Corporation are associated (or correlated) with Apple. Values of the correlation coefficient range from -1 to +1, where. The correlation of zero (0) is possible when the price movement of Apple has no effect on the direction of Alcoa i.e. Alcoa and Apple go up and down completely randomly.