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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:

327.2

Highest Value:

327.99

Lowest Value:

320.02

Adj. Closing Value:

323.01

  • The forecast plot shows the forecasted Cencora, 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 Cencora, Inc. stock.

Point Forecast Lo 80 Hi 80 Lo 95 Hi 95
May 2026 332.0119 321.1056 342.9182 315.3322 348.6916
Jun 2026 344.2664 330.0132 358.5196 322.4680 366.0648
Jul 2026 344.6578 328.3201 360.9954 319.6715 369.6441
Aug 2026 347.7383 329.1217 366.3550 319.2666 376.2101
Sep 2026 352.3932 331.5587 373.2276 320.5297 384.2566
Oct 2026 356.2644 333.3643 379.1645 321.2417 391.2871
Nov 2026 360.0101 335.1009 384.9193 321.9148 398.1054
Dec 2026 363.9190 337.0336 390.8045 322.8013 405.0368
Jan 2027 367.8183 338.9899 396.6466 323.7291 411.9075
Feb 2027 371.6905 340.9428 402.4382 324.6659 418.7151
Mar 2027 375.5698 342.9179 408.2216 325.6331 425.5064
Apr 2027 379.4524 344.9071 413.9977 326.6200 432.2848
  • In March of 2027, the Cencora, Inc. stock price is forecasted to be 376 dollars.

  • The width of the 80% prediction interval for this forecast in March of 2027 is 65 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 95% accurate.

  • This doesn’t guarantee that forecasts will be 95% 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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