In fact, most investors we know look at past earnings growth in order to predict future earnings growth.
Rockwool is far from the only green building company to predict growth in 2012, despite the generally depressed housing market.
My metric and marketing focused process in operating my businesses has allowed me to accurately predict growth and impact of major decisions.
New government forecasts, due to be published in September, will predict growth in the amount of traffic by 60-90% between now and 2025.
They expect sales to decline in the former due to weakness in the network infrastructure markets, but predict growth for the latter, citing continued spending from the government and public safety agencies.
Despite the fact that jobs experts predict growth in employment opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math will grow more than 7% faster than any other sector over the next five years, the number of women pursuing STEM education and career paths.
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They predict that growth will be close to 5 per cent again in 2010.
They predict a growth in China's cultural influence, but believe this will take time.
Some years ago, I did some work on whether air traffic could predict population growth and job growth.
In any case the beauty of the oil and gas boom is that multipliers aren't needed to predict job growth.
HSBC, a bank, expect a recession in America, they still predict world growth of 3.2% and 2.7% in 2001 and 2002, respectively.
If the broader Cloud community can sustain that customer-centric view despite the growing competitive and financial pressures, I predict continued growth and adoption for the platform.
Competitions require bidders to predict revenue growth over 15 years.
With GDP growth generally a lagging indicator, it is often more rewarding to pay attention to policies that encourage economic growth when trying to predict outperforming global markets, says Vlad Signorelli, Global Research Director at Brettonwoods Research LLC.
Even so, only about half of Brazil's 100 million pets have access to pre-packaged foods and pet stores, according PET South America, leaving plenty of room for future growth, which they predict will be in the double digits.
All these relatively minor measures are likely to be overshadowed by yet another downgrading of the official economic forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility which is likely to predict lower growth and higher borrowing in the years to come.
In fact, with GDP growth generally a lagging indicator anyhow, it is often more rewarding to pay attention to policies at the margin that encourage economic growth when trying to predict outperforming global markets, says Vlad Signorelli, global research director at boutique investment research firm Brettonwoods Research LLC in New Jersey.
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One philosophy was of a dynamic future that embraces change and growth but is hard to predict.
Some predict global GDP growth in 2011 to be around 4.3 percent.
While we anticipate that the number of diners will reach 10 million by the end of our forecast period, Trefis members predict more substantial growth towards 12 million.
Economists predict regional economic growth of some 5% this year.
She first proposed the idea ten years ago and "was laughed out of the room" by skeptical doctors who figured brain tumor growth was too erratic to predict, Swanson says.
But I predict the African economic growth story will continue to be a talking point.
As Mortensen would predict, the high growth states (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, George, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington) had a somewhat higher (about 13 percent) proportion of income going for public higher education support in 1980.
Looking forward, growth in foreign business elements could also predict which tech shops will weather a possible a recession, Bartels said.
Economists currently predict fourth-quarter economic growth between 1% to 1.5%.
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This is exactly what economic theory would predict: countries with faster productivity growth in the traded-goods sector should see rising real exchange rates.
Some economists now predict that the economy will enjoy growth of more than 5% for 1999 as a whole, following a decline of 5.8% last year.
These steps have led the Asian Development Bank to recently predict the country's economic growth to pick up pace from this year--it expects a 6% expansion this fiscal year.
Listening to yet another CEO predict a hockey-stick spurt of growth sure to occur over the next 18 months--it was always 18 months--my hands would ball up in dread.
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