Since 2005, the index has grown at an average annual compound rate of 8.4 percent.
The point being that stocks paid off over 8 decades with a compound rate of return over 10%.
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Between 1999 and 2002, the issue of new credit cards in South Korea grew at an annual compound rate of 75%.
P. per capita rose by an annual compound rate of 1.9 percent.
Bernstein puts the compound annual decline at 32% between 2007 and 2011, noting the eerie similarity with the price of computer memory, which has fallen at an annual compound rate of 33.4% since 1974.
Mr Thakkar, scrutineer of the Indian water scene, says that although the installed capacity of India's hydro projects increased at a compound rate of 4.4% a year between 1991 and 2005, the amount of energy generated actually fell.
Gartner sees the wireless corporate network market growing at a compound annual rate of 18.4% from 2011 to 2016, and the market for high-speed fiber-optic Internet-access equipment growing at a compound annual rate of 12.1% from 2010 to 2014.
Putting aside the very real limits to the growth of wind power, the installed base of renewables would have to grow at a compound rate of more than 12% a year to reach 20% of the national electricity mix within a decade.
The company is looking for a 7% compound annual growth rate for sales and a 12% compound annual growth rate for earnings in the coming years.
Its compound annual growth rate is 15% over 40 years, and has actually accelerated in the past decade to have a compound annual growth rate of 18%.
Between 2000 and 2010, Salisbury property taxes have increased at a 4.6% compound annual rate.
Already, in the past 15 years, Indonesia's coal exports have grown at a compound annual rate of 15%.
Gartner sees the market for 4G LTE infrastructure growing at a compound annual rate of 42.6% from 2013 to 2017.
To sweeten the deal for investors, the company has increased its dividend six times at a compound annual rate of 14%.
Until disaster-scarred 2001, its revenue was zooming ahead at a compound annual rate of 15%--triple the industry's average--while earnings per share was increasing 27%.
Between 1865 and 1915, the U.S. economy increased nearly sevenfold, with real incomes increasing at a compound annual rate of more than 2 percent.
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For the past ten years, sales have increased at a compound annual rate of 18.3%, earnings per share at 57.2%, and dividends at 16.7%.
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McKinsey expects this affluent segment to grow at a compound annual rate of 16% between now and 2020, offering underlying support for the global premium car market.
Meanwhile tablet sales, the iPad and others, are expected to climb at a 52% compound annual rate from 70 million in 2011 to 246 million in 2014.
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So, for example, if you have a compound interest rate of 5%, you divide 70 by 5 and determine that your principal will have doubled in 14 years.
In the coming years, Asia will record the highest growth rate of all regions in the entertainment and media industry, with more than a 9% compound annual growth rate.
Email actually paces at a healthy 10% compound annual growth rate over the next 10 years.
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Texas Roadhouse also sports a 35% compound annual growth rate over the last seven years.
By contrast, a time horizon of 10 years generates a compound annual growth rate of 15.4%.
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Cloud-based BI and analytics will see an 84% compound annual growth rate over this period.
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By 2010, the industry had grown to 16, 000 megawatts at a compound annual growth rate of 57%.
We would expect a 16% to 18% compound annual growth rate in earning per share for Novo Nordisk.
In 2012-2017, mobile data traffic is forecast to grow 17-fold at a compound annual growth rate of 76%.
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