Lucena KPI Forecasting - WMT
Analysis Period5/29/15 - 2/8/21
Report Generated4/16/24
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Analysis Overview
Lucena conducted multi-phase research to validate Equifax’s data and illustrate its predictive power in forecasting KPIs for certain publicly traded constituents. This report provides graphical and statistical representations of the effectiveness of Equifax’s consumer credit data in forecasting future quarter over quarter growth in revenue.
Targeted KPIs
Quarterly gross revenue
Constituents
WMT - Walmart Inc
Lucena's Forecast
WMT - Revenue Projections to Actuals
Accuracy Statistics
Lucena Consensus
R² N/A 0.47
SMAPE N/A -25.07
RMSE N/A 0.01
Directional N/A N/A
Outperformance 0.00% 10.53%

KPI Attribution

SeasonalityN/A

TrendN/A

ResidualN/A

*KPI Attribution is a combination of ‘Seasonality’, ‘Trend’, & ‘Residual’, which sum to 100%.

Y over Y Quarterly Change % (Forecast vs Actuals)
Quarter Lucena Consensus Actual Difference
Q2-2024 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Q3-2024 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Q4-2025 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Q4-2024 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Q1-2025 N/A N/A N/A N/A
*Values are in billions
Performance Analysis
Using Regression Analysis, Lucena constructed multiple models composed of Equifax, Macro, Fundamental, and Alternative Data factors. As can be seen, Equifax data is well suited for KPI forecasting and can be further optimized by combining it with other data sets.
Data Sources & Features
Equifax - Consumer credit dataset for the United States population.
+ Delinquency Rate
+ Utilization Rate
+ Debt to Income
+ Inquiries TTM
+ Payment to Balance Ratio
+ Available Credit+ Payment Due
+ Credit Score
+ Number of Accounts
+ Number of New Accounts
+ Total Balance
+ Number of Consumers
 
Machine Learning
Lucena Machine Learning models are built using SVM, Random Forest, Knn, Logistic Regression, and other traditional Machine Learning techniques. An ensemble of uncorrelated multi-factor models are created and weighted based on their recent accuracy. Final forecast values are based on calculating the mean from the weighted sum of all models.

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