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Year-over-year change, expressed as a percentage.
Growth rate generally refers to a company’s percentage change in either earnings per share or revenue over a given period. It also is applied to sectors or countries to show how fast (or slow) growth is occurring, in percentage terms.
A growth rate tells investors how quickly a stock, sector, economy, or other investment grouping is growing.
High growth might indicate a good place to put your money, since things are on their way up, which could mean parallel growth in your holdings. But the growth might also be near its top if it’s been on the way up for a while. There’s no way to time the market, of course.
A company’s growth rate is often useful in comparison to its price-to-earnings ratio P/E ratio. The resultant ratio is the price/earning to growth ratio PEG ratio.
Analysts project future growth rates (based partly on past growth and predictions about future trends) and many investors use those figures when considering whether a stock is a “bargain.” For instance, if a company’s P/E is 13 and analysts predict 21% growth annually for the next five years, that could be one item to put in your “why buy this stock” column.
Investors should also look at growth rates in the past to see if current growth might be related to a one-time event instead of a hallmark of the stock.
Countries’ growth rates — in terms of something like gross domestic product (GDP) or market capitalization — are also important. It’s a rate, so a country could have a much smaller economy overall than the United States, but if it’s growing at a faster rate (a so-called emerging economy), perhaps it is a good place to look for stocks.
You should keep an eye on your companies growth rate to see if it is performing as well as it should.
The growth rate was stellar, we were leading the industry, we had successfully satisfied our target markets needs and wants.
The growth rate of the business was really cool to track and I thought in a year they would be one of the biggest in the world
PEG ratio
P/E ratio
constant growth model
Gordon Growth Model
cost of equity capital
soft landing
Russell 3000 Growth Index
economic growth rate
per cent
CAGR
growing perpetuity
McCallum rule
real economic growth rate
economic growth rate
internal growth rate
Compound Annual Growth Rate
rental growth rate
compound growth rate
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