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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:

270.33

Highest Value:

274.28

Lowest Value:

270.29

Adj. Closing Value:

273.05

  • The forecast plot shows the forecasted Apple Inc 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 Apple Inc stock.

Point Forecast Lo 80 Hi 80 Lo 95 Hi 95
May 2026 252.1937 242.5704 261.8170 237.4762 266.9112
Jun 2026 249.4560 236.0766 262.8354 228.9940 269.9181
Jul 2026 247.9457 232.0350 263.8565 223.6123 272.2791
Aug 2026 247.9820 230.3102 265.6539 220.9553 275.0088
Sep 2026 249.6423 230.7496 268.5350 220.7484 278.5362
Oct 2026 252.7667 233.0232 272.5102 222.5716 282.9618
Nov 2026 256.9959 236.6344 277.3574 225.8557 288.1361
Dec 2026 261.8357 240.9802 282.6912 229.9400 293.7314
Jan 2027 266.7362 245.4252 288.0471 234.1439 299.3285
Feb 2027 271.1740 249.3750 292.9730 237.8353 304.5127
Mar 2027 274.7255 252.3437 297.1073 240.4955 308.9555
Apr 2027 277.1212 254.0110 300.2315 241.7771 312.4653
  • In March of 2027, the Apple Inc stock price is forecasted to be 275 dollars.

  • The width of the 80% prediction interval for this forecast in March of 2027 is 45 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 91.7% accurate.

  • This doesn’t guarantee that forecasts will be 91.7% 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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