Companies are judged by revenue growth rate, earnings-per-share growth rate, and annualized total return. The overall rank is based on the sum of those 3 ranks over a 3-year period.

《财富》杂志根据各个公司过去3年的营收增长率、每股收益增长率及年总回报率三项数据统计了这一排名。

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Fortune's annual list of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies takes into account revenue growth rate, EPS growth rate, and three-year annualized total return-all for the past three years.

《财富》评选这100家增长最快公司的标准包括过去三年的收入增长率、每股收益增速以及年均总回报率。

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Capital appreciation came in at 23.6% per annum, and when you add in the rapidly growing dividend, shareholders enjoyed a total annualized rate of return of 24.8% per annum.

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The earnings rate combines a 0.00% fixed rate of return with the 4.60% annualized rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U).

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The dispersion is somewhat larger when measuring average annual returns (annualized return, recall, is the compounded or geometric rate of return during a multiple-year time period).

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