Pliant Therapeutics Stock Forward View - Triple Exponential Smoothing

PLRX Stock  USD 1.29  -0.04  -3.01%   
The reference data on this page reflects Triple Exponential Smoothing output applied to Pliant Therapeutics's historical daily closing prices. Forecast values and accuracy statistics are presented for informational purposes.
The Triple Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of Pliant Therapeutics on the next trading day is expected to be 1.29 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.03 and the sum of the absolute errors of 1.86.As with simple exponential smoothing, in triple exponential smoothing models past Pliant Therapeutics observations are given exponentially smaller weights as the observations get older. In other words, recent observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older Pliant Therapeutics observations. The forecast reference data presented here for Pliant Therapeutics reflects Triple Exponential Smoothing model output and is intended as reference material for analytical use.
Triple exponential smoothing for Pliant Therapeutics - also known as the Winters method - is a refinement of the popular double exponential smoothing model with the addition of periodicity (seasonality) component. Simple exponential smoothing technique works best with data where there are no trend or seasonality components to the data. When Pliant Therapeutics prices exhibit either an increasing or decreasing trend over time, simple exponential smoothing forecasts tend to lag behind observations. Double exponential smoothing is designed to address this type of data series by taking into account any trend in Pliant Therapeutics price movement. However, neither of these exponential smoothing models address any seasonality of Pliant Therapeutics.

Triple Exponential Smoothing Price Forecast For the 22nd of March

Given 90 days horizon, the Triple Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of Pliant Therapeutics on the next trading day is expected to be 1.29 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.03 , mean absolute percentage error of 0.0016 , and the sum of the absolute errors of 1.86 .
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict Pliant 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 Pliant Therapeutics' next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

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Forecasted Value

This next-day forecast for Pliant Therapeutics uses model performance to estimate practical downside and upside boundaries rather than a single point target alone. At the moment, the model places downside around 0.01 and upside around 4.36 for the forecasting period.
Market Value
1.29
1.29
Expected Value
4.36
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Triple Exponential Smoothing forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of Pliant Therapeutics stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent Pliant Therapeutics 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 CriteriaHuge
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors -0.0038
MADMean absolute deviation0.031
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0246
SAESum of the absolute errors1.8598
As with simple exponential smoothing, in triple exponential smoothing models past Pliant Therapeutics observations are given exponentially smaller weights as the observations get older. In other words, recent observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older Pliant Therapeutics observations.

Other Forecasting Options for Pliant Therapeutics

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Common Stock Shares Outstanding61.4 M
Cash And Short Term Investments190.9 M

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