Metro Stock Forward View - Simple Exponential Smoothing

MRU Stock  CAD 94.52  0.75  0.80%   
This page documents Simple Exponential Smoothing forecast output for Metro Inc as reference data. The model is applied to historical closing prices and the resulting projection and error statistics are shown below. Key metrics including projected price and mean absolute deviation are summarized below. The reference data on this page covers both forecast levels and error statistics.
The Simple Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of Metro Inc on the next trading day is expected to be 94.52 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.85 and the sum of the absolute errors of 50.94.This simple exponential smoothing model begins by setting Metro Inc forecast for the second period equal to the observation of the first period. In other words, recent Metro observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older observations. Metro's Simple Exponential Smoothing reference values are drawn from available trading data and are presented for informational reference only.
Metro simple exponential smoothing forecast is a very popular model used to produce a smoothed price series. Whereas in simple Moving Average models the past observations for Metro Inc are weighted equally, Exponential Smoothing assigns exponentially decreasing weights as Metro Inc prices get older.

Simple Exponential Smoothing Price Forecast For the 24th of March

Given 90 days horizon, the Simple Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of Metro Inc on the next trading day is expected to be 94.52 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.85 , mean absolute percentage error of 1.44 , and the sum of the absolute errors of 50.94 .
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict Metro Stock prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not suggest using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that Metro's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

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Forecasted Value

The next-day forecast for Metro Inc focuses on identifying predictive downside and upside bands that can frame a realistic trading range. At the moment, the model places downside around 93.27 and upside around 95.77 for the forecasting period.
Market Value
94.52
94.52
Expected Value
95.77
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Simple Exponential Smoothing forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of Metro stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent Metro stock, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information Criteria116.6388
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors 0.059
MADMean absolute deviation0.849
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0089
SAESum of the absolute errors50.94
This simple exponential smoothing model begins by setting Metro Inc forecast for the second period equal to the observation of the first period. In other words, recent Metro observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older observations.

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Cash And Short Term Investments67.3 M

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