North American Correlations

NOA Stock  CAD 28.58  0.58  2.07%   
The current 90-days correlation between North American Const and PHX Energy Services is 0.4 (i.e., Very weak diversification). A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as North American moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if North American Construction moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction.

North American Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between North American Construction and DJI is 0.07 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding North American Construction and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
The ability to find closely correlated positions to North American could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace North American when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back North American - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling North American Construction to buy it.

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between North Stock performing well and North American Company doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze North American's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.

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