Time Series Model Based Earning Forecasting

Abstract

We propose a procedure to forecast earning of listed companies. It is a modification of method developed for forecasting series with stable seasonal patterns. The new method is motivated by the observations that seasonal patterns, which may be evolving over time and remain relative stability, arise in finance market. The method can be applied to forecast individual observations as well as the end-of-season totals. Empirical study will be conducted with data from finance market to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. The new method is proved more effective than traditional time series models.