## # A tibble: 548 × 5
## # Groups: symbol [4]
## symbol date price change text
## <chr> <date> <dbl> <dbl> <glue>
## 1 GDPC1 1947-01-01 2034. NA 1947.1,
## Growth: NA
## 2 GDPC1 1947-04-01 2029. -0.00267 1947.2,
## Growth: -0.3%
## 3 GDPC1 1947-07-01 2025. -0.00207 1947.3,
## Growth: -0.2%
## 4 GDPC1 1947-10-01 2057. 0.0156 1947.4,
## Growth: 1.6%
## 5 GDPC1 1948-01-01 2087. 0.0150 1948.1,
## Growth: 1.5%
## 6 GDPC1 1948-04-01 2122. 0.0165 1948.2,
## Growth: 1.7%
## 7 GDPC1 1948-07-01 2134. 0.00573 1948.3,
## Growth: 0.6%
## 8 GDPC1 1948-10-01 2136. 0.00112 1948.4,
## Growth: 0.1%
## 9 GDPC1 1949-01-01 2107. -0.0138 1949.1,
## Growth: -1.4%
## 10 GDPC1 1949-04-01 2100. -0.00341 1949.2,
## Growth: -0.3%
## # … with 538 more rows
Analyze your client company’s data, consider the timing depth, and duration of downturns in a sale.
Timing - Usually Grappone’s Automotive sales dip before the overall economy both in 2007 and in 2019 prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. The recovery of the Graponee occurs before the overall turn around of the recession.
Depth - Grappone Automotive sales are hgihly dependent on the economy and wheneber there is an economic downturn there is also a downturn in automotive sales. From the graph you can see that consumers start to purchase vehicles before the economy upturns.
Duration - Usually the economic downturn of fall of sales at Grappone falls before the overall economy and recovers faster as well. The duration of declining sales lasted about 3 quarters from the end of 2007 to 2008.