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This website incorporates forecasting skills from BUA 345 - Business Analytics into a dashboard presentation format.

Last Update:

Monday, April 20, 2026

Opening Value:

27.02

Highest Value:

27.44

Lowest Value:

26.93

Adj. Closing Value:

27.27

  • The forecast plot shows the forecasted Gap stock prices for the next 12 months.

  • The plot also shows the 80% prediction interval in dark purple and the 95% prediction interval in light purple.

  • The numeric values for these forecasted values and prediction intervals are shown in the next tab.

The table below shows the forecast values and 80% and 95% prediction intervals for the 12 requested forecasts for the Gap stock.

Point Forecast Lo 80 Hi 80 Lo 95 Hi 95
May 2026 24.59337 21.62439 27.56236 20.05271 29.13404
Jun 2026 24.25302 20.41827 28.08776 18.38827 30.11776
Jul 2026 23.93196 19.46580 28.39812 17.10156 30.76236
Aug 2026 23.62911 18.66825 28.58998 16.04212 31.21610
Sep 2026 23.34344 17.98062 28.70626 15.14171 31.54517
Oct 2026 23.07397 17.37729 28.77065 14.36164 31.78629
Nov 2026 22.81978 16.84169 28.79787 13.67707 31.96248
Dec 2026 22.58001 16.36221 28.79780 13.07071 32.08930
Jan 2027 22.35383 15.93027 28.77739 12.52985 32.17781
Feb 2027 22.14048 15.53923 28.74174 12.04473 32.23623
Mar 2027 21.93923 15.18379 28.69467 11.60768 32.27079
Apr 2027 21.74940 14.85966 28.63913 11.21246 32.28634
  • In March of 2027, the Gap stock price is forecasted to be 22 dollars.

  • The width of the 80% prediction interval for this forecast in March of 2027 is 14 dollars.
  • These three residual plots allow the analyst to examine the distribution of the residuals of the modeled time series.

  • Despite increasing volatility, our stock price model is estimated to be 89.7% accurate.

  • This doesn’t guarantee that forecasts will be 89.7% accurate but it does improve our chances of accurate forecasting.


This dashboard was created using Quarto in RStudio, and the R Language and Environment.

The dataset used to create this dashboard was downloaded from Yahoo Finance.

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