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1 Modeling Lowe s sales Forecasting sales is obviously of crucial importance to businesses. Revenue streams are random, of course, but in some industries general economic factors would be expected to have a great effect on sales. One such industry is the building supply industry, since contractor work is a driving force for such purchases. Is it possible to model sales of Lowe s Companies (the world s second largest home improvement retailer and the 14th largest retailer in the U.S.) as a function of generally available economic factors related to the housing industry? The data studied here were gathered by Mike Nannizzi, and refer to 79 consecutive quarters from the first quarter of 1983 through the third quarter of We are interested in modeling Lowe s quarterly sales, in millions of dollars, as a function of housing starts (in millions) and average mortgage rate (I also thank Mike for some of the financial analysis quoted here). Examination of the revenue variable shows that it is right tailed; since it is a money variable, it is natural to take the target variable as logged (base 10) sales. That is, we will fit a semilog model. Recall, by the way, that these sales are in millions of dollars, so these quarterly sales are as big as $7.5 billion. There s a lot of money in hammers and nails! Here are scatter plots of logged sales versus housing starts and mortgage rate. As would be expected, there is a direct relationship with housing starts (more new houses meaning more building supplies), and an inverse relationship with mortgage rate (higher rates meaning fewer purchases of houses, with the resultant fewer repairs). We also see evidence in both plots of two distinct subgroups in the data, with apparently different relationships between the variables. The group with flatter sales corresponds to the 1980s, while that with higher sales corresponds to the 1990s. c 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 1
2 There is also a strong relationship between logged sales and time, reflecting an annual proportional growth in sales. Once again we see evidence that the 1980s and 1990s correspond to two distinct time periods. Why would that be? Unlike Home Depot, which was the market leader in the (urban and suburban) home improvement industry, Lowe s spent the 1980s in mostly rural markets, aiming to support local contractors. As the home improvement concept became tremendously profitable into the 1990s, Lowe s changed its focus to compete more directly with Home Depot. c 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 2
3 Here are the results of fitting the model of logged revenue on the three predictors: Regression Analysis: Log Sales versus Housing starts, Mortgage, Time Analysis of Variance Source DF Adj SS Adj MS F-Value P-Value Regression Housing starts Mortgage Time Error Total Model Summary S R-sq R-sq(adj) R-sq(pred) % 99.47% 99.44% Coefficients Term Coef SE Coef T-Value P-Value VIF Constant Housing starts Mortgage Time c 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 3
4 Regression Equation Log Sales = Housing starts Mortgage Time The regression fit is apparently very strong. The coefficients can be interpreted as follows. An increase of one million housing starts in a quarter is associated with increasing sales by 25.5%, holding all else fixed ( = 1.255). The coefficient for mortgage rates is puzzling, as it is positive; an increase in mortgage rate by one percentage point is associated with an increase in sales of 3.6% ( = 1.036), holding all else fixed. In fact, this variable adds little to the fit, as the model with it removed has R 2 =.994. Finally, given the other variables, there is a 4.2% quarterly increase in sales ( = 1.042). Unfortunately, there are problems with this model. There is apparently structure left in the data, related to the time effect noted earlier. In addition, there is a strong effect that sales in the third quarter are systematically lower than during the rest of the year. c 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 4
5 We can try to address these model deficiencies by adding two more predictors: Time 2, to address the parabolic pattern in the residuals related to time, and an indicator variable identifying the third quarter. Here is the resultant regression output: Analysis of Variance Source DF Adj SS Adj MS F-Value P-Value Regression Housing starts Mortgage Time Time sq Q Error Total Model Summary S R-sq R-sq(adj) R-sq(pred) % 99.74% 99.71% Coefficients Term Coef SE Coef T-Value P-Value VIF Constant c 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 5
6 Housing starts Mortgage Time Time sq Q Regression Equation Log Sales = Housing starts Mortgage Time Timesq Q3 The collinearity between Time and Time 2 is to be expected, so we don t have to worry about that. Apparently we don t need mortgage rate now, so that original positive coefficient wasn t something to worry about anyway: Analysis of Variance Source DF Adj SS Adj MS F-Value P-Value Regression Housing starts Time Time sq Q Error Total Model Summary S R-sq R-sq(adj) R-sq(pred) % 99.74% 99.71% Coefficients Term Coef SE Coef T-Value P-Value VIF Constant Housing starts Time Time sq Q c 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 6
7 Regression Equation Log Sales = Housing starts Time Time sq Q3 Given time, and whether it is the third quarter, one million additional housing starts is associated with an expected 24.0% increase in Lowe s sales. Given time and the number of housing starts, sales are 7.7% lower in the third quarter. Why would this be? We wouldn t be surprised to see higher sales in the first part of the year, since that is the peak construction season in the northern part of the country, but why wouldn t this affect the fourth quarter as well? In fact, there is evidence that Lowe s sold goods at a steeper discount in the fourth quarter, as its income as a percentage of sales is one third lower than in any of the other three quarters. This could, perhaps, reflect a desire to pump up end of year sales, so as to meet analysts sales expectations. The time effect is a little trickier, since it is a quadratic relationship. Since the coefficient for Time 2 is positive, we re seeing an increasing growth rate in sales over time, and a little calculus can make that more specific. Given all else is held fixed, the expected rate of change of the response as a function of a predictor xwhen x is in the model quadratically (β 1 x+β 2 x 2 ) is just the partial derivative with respect to x, or β 1 + 2β 2 x. Thus, given all else is held fixed, at the first quarter of 1983 the estimated expected time-related rate of sales growth is 3.1% ( (2)( )(1) =.0134, and = 1.031); on the other hand, given all else is fixed, at the first quarter of 2002 the estimated expected time-related rate of sales growth is 4.7% ( (2)( )(77) =.0201, and = 1.047). Thus, unless economic conditions change, it seems that Lowe s sales can be expected to continue to rise. The model now seems to fit pretty well (although the plots of residuals versus housing starts and time of year seem to hint at nonconstant variance). c 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 7
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9 Given the very high R 2, we can say that housing starts and the time related variables, we can predict Lowe s sales very accurately. Indeed, the standard error of the estimate s =.0199 implies that 95% of the time Lowe s sales are predicted to within roughly 9 10% high or low ( =.912; = 1.096). Of course, that translates into as much as ±$750 million, so we shouldn t get too excited! Another potential approach we could have taken here is to split the data into pre 1990 and post 1990 groups, being consistent with the earlier scatter plots. We can do this using the pooled / constant shift / full model approach we discussed earlier. Here is the full model fit: Analysis of Variance Source DF Adj SS Adj MS F-Value P-Value Regression Housing starts Time Mortgage Q s Housing80s Time80s Mortgage80s Q380s Error Total c 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 9
10 Model Summary S R-sq R-sq(adj) R-sq(pred) % 99.82% 99.79% Coefficients Term Coef SE Coef T-Value P-Value VIF Constant Housing starts Time Mortgage Q s Housing80s Time80s Mortgage80s Q380s Regression Equation Log Sales = Housing starts Time Mortgage Q s Housing80s Time80s Mortgage80s Q380s Separate slopes for the housing starts variable don t seem to be supported: Analysis of Variance Source DF Adj SS Adj MS F-Value P-Value Regression Housing starts Time Mortgage Q s Time80s Mortgage80s Q380s Error c 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 10
11 Total Model Summary S R-sq R-sq(adj) R-sq(pred) % 99.83% 99.80% Coefficients Term Coef SE Coef T-Value P-Value VIF Constant Housing starts Time Mortgage Q s Time80s Mortgage80s Q380s Regression Equation Log Sales = Housing starts Time Mortgage Q s Time80s Mortgage80s Q380s This model implies predictions of sales to within 7 8%, roughly 95% of the time. The model yields two fitted lines: for the 1980s, LogSales = Housing starts Time.0059 Mortgage rate.0105 Q3, and for post 1990, LogSales = Housing starts Time Mortgage rate.0414 Q3. The housing starts effect is very similar to that in the quadratic model, and the third quarter effect was stronger in the later time period. Consistent with the increasing predicc 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 11
12 tions from the quadratic model, the estimated annual rate of change in sales (given the other variables) was 3.2% in the earlier time period, and 4.5% in the latter time period, certainly good news for Lowe s. Interestingly, a similar analysis to this one using Home Depot revenues shows the opposite pattern, with the rate of change of Home Depot s revenues decreasing in recent time periods. Perhaps this accounts for the relatively poor performance of Home Depot stock; Home Depot s price dropped more than 50% from June 2002 to March 2003, while that of Lowe s dropped only (?) 15%. There are two other points worth mentioning here. These data form a time series, of course, and even though the plot of standardized residuals versus time didn t show apparent autocorrelation, there is, in fact, some autocorrelation in the residuals. It s not that important, however; some basic time series remedies (which we will talk about later) only change the standard error of the estimate from.0163 to.016. In addition, we should recognize that part of the time trend effect that we are seeing is presumably an inflation effect; an analysis that avoided that (uninteresting) effect could be accomplished by using constant dollar sales (inflation-adjusted), rather than the actual (nominal) dollar sales. Minitab commands To create all K indicators for a categorical variable (likequarter) click on Calc Make Indicator Variables and enter the variable name under Indicator variables for:. The program will choose default names for the indicators, but you can change them if you wish. c 2015, Jeffrey S. Simonoff 12
Predictor Coef StDev T P Constant 970667056 616256122 1.58 0.154 X 0.00293 0.06163 0.05 0.963. S = 0.5597 R-Sq = 0.0% R-Sq(adj) = 0.
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