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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:

385.87

Highest Value:

391.12

Lowest Value:

382.5

Adj. Closing Value:

389.52

  • The forecast plot shows the forecasted Ralph Lauren 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 Ralph Lauren stock.

Point Forecast Lo 80 Hi 80 Lo 95 Hi 95
May 2026 358.4539 343.7598 373.1480 335.9812 380.9266
Jun 2026 363.8978 342.7441 385.0514 331.5461 396.2495
Jul 2026 369.3416 342.9745 395.7087 329.0166 409.6667
Aug 2026 374.7855 343.8063 405.7647 327.4070 422.1641
Sep 2026 380.2294 344.9948 415.4640 326.3427 434.1160
Oct 2026 385.6733 346.4168 424.9297 325.6356 445.7109
Nov 2026 391.1171 348.0005 434.2338 325.1759 457.0583
Dec 2026 396.5610 349.7001 443.4219 324.8935 468.2285
Jan 2027 402.0049 351.4845 452.5253 324.7406 479.2691
Feb 2027 407.4488 353.3313 461.5662 324.6833 490.2142
Mar 2027 412.8926 355.2242 470.5610 324.6964 501.0888
Apr 2027 418.3365 357.1507 479.5223 324.7609 511.9121
  • In March of 2027, the Ralph Lauren stock price is forecasted to be 413 dollars.

  • The width of the 80% prediction interval for this forecast in March of 2027 is 115 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 93% accurate.

  • This doesn’t guarantee that forecasts will be 93% 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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