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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:

340.76

Highest Value:

341.4

Lowest Value:

336.61

Adj. Closing Value:

337.42

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

Point Forecast Lo 80 Hi 80 Lo 95 Hi 95
May 2026 287.8206 277.8350 297.8062 272.5490 303.0923
Jun 2026 282.8861 268.0309 297.7413 260.1670 305.6051
Jul 2026 284.9043 265.4806 304.3279 255.1983 314.6102
Aug 2026 293.1506 269.2835 317.0177 256.6490 329.6522
Sep 2026 304.3698 276.4360 332.3036 261.6488 347.0908
Oct 2026 314.3008 282.9513 345.6503 266.3559 362.2457
Nov 2026 319.5128 285.4977 353.5278 267.4912 371.5343
Dec 2026 318.7690 282.7318 354.8063 263.6548 373.8833
Jan 2027 313.3872 275.7395 351.0349 255.8100 370.9644
Feb 2027 306.5153 267.4115 345.6191 246.7111 366.3194
Mar 2027 301.7001 261.0725 342.3276 239.5655 363.8346
Apr 2027 301.3893 259.0251 343.7534 236.5989 366.1796
  • In March of 2027, the Alphabet Inc stock price is forecasted to be 302 dollars.

  • The width of the 80% prediction interval for this forecast in March of 2027 is 81 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 93.1% accurate.

  • This doesn’t guarantee that forecasts will be 93.1% 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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