Financial statements
How fast profit has grown, as a yearly rate over the period named.
It is what most share prices ultimately follow, and the number most worth checking against sales growth: profit growing much faster for long stretches usually means margins improving, which cannot go on forever.
Read it beside sales growth and over more than one horizon. A rate computed from a tiny or negative starting profit will look spectacular while saying nothing at all.
How fast profit has grown, as a yearly rate over the period named.
It is what most share prices ultimately follow, and the number most worth checking against sales growth: profit growing much faster for long stretches usually means margins improving, which cannot go on forever.
No. Profit growth describes one aspect of a company, a price or a contract, and it is best read alongside other numbers and the business itself. Jivani Markets is a research and education platform; it does not give buy, sell or hold recommendations.