This growth is stronger than in March, and significantly higher than the average 7.1% year-to-year growth rate of Q1.
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The year-on-year growth rate will be 43% in 2011, but will decrease to 13% over the next five years.
With a current-year price-to-earnings ratio just above 10 and a projected five-year growth rate of 10.8%, Scotts sells at a discount to anticipated growth.
Valuation compared to its projected five-year growth rate is also modest: Limited's PEG ratio (price-to-earnings ratio divided by long-term growth rate of 15%) is 0.96.
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has forecast Africa traffic to expand by about 6.5% per annum between 2011-2020 and by 4.9% between 2021-2030, for a 20-year growth rate of 5.7%.
This is largely because, as Bill Hester noted in his research article last week, forward operating earnings are heavily determined by extrapolating the most recent year-over-year growth rate for earnings.
Analysts figure on a 5-year growth rate of 27%.
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There is one other issue to consider: one year of 100% growth is a larger move than 5 years of 14% growth (14% growth is higher than the median 1 year growth rate, 1951-1997).
Analysts agreed that the deal would depress long term revenue growth, with Wells Fargo analysts predicting an 8% to 9% fall in annual terms, lowering their 3 year growth rate to 15% from 18%.
The higher the Index value the better, because it either has a high 5 year growth rate tempered by a fairly low payout ratio, or a modest growth history with a very low payout ratio.
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Which takes us to the longer term question, which is whether there is the remotest prospect that the UK in the coming five to ten years can return to the 3%-a-year growth rate it enjoyed during the putative golden years from 1992-2008.
More to the point, given that the 10-year compounded growth rate in government outlays ending fiscal year 2010 was 6.8%, and that over the last 5 year, 10 year and 25 year periods that 10 year growth rate averaged 6.3%, 5.3% and 5.9% respectively, we cannot help but take these spending projections with a rather large grain of salt.
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The company's price-earnings growth (PEG) ratio is 1.57, based on a five-year annual growth rate of 12.5%.
The relatively higher wages in Dallas are what pushed it to the top of the list, but for raw growth the Austin area wins at No. 2 in the nation with an expected 5-year annual growth rate of 3.9%. (No. 1 was Honolulu, which but for recent hiccups in its job market and lackluster projected income growth would be in the Top 10 overall).
She calculates that the current share price embeds a 10-year average growth rate of negative 6.9%.
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Western Digital has a 30.4 percent 10-year EBITDA growth rate, and a 4.5-star Business Predictability rank.
Moreover, its PEG ratio is 1, based on a 5-year earnings growth rate of 13.4%.
Still, its revenue is up 150% this year, up from its 61% 5-year average growth rate.
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And its PEG ratio is just 0.4 based on a consensus 5-year EPS growth rate of 21%.
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Austin is even better, ranking No. 2 in the nation with an expected 5-year annual growth rate of 3.9%.
This represented a 5.7 percent increase compared with fourth-quarter 2011 and was the company's highest year-over-year quarterly growth rate in 2012.
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If you were to take out a 14th week of iPad sales the previous year the growth rate would be 9%.
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If you were to take out a 14th week of iPad sales the previous year the growth rate would be 66%.
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The Dividend Integrity Index simply divides the past 5 year dividend growth rate by the dividend payout ratio, and listed values greater than one.
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Apple trades for 15.2 times expected 2012 earnings and analysts figure on a 5-year EPS growth rate of 22.5%, giving it a PEG ratio of 0.67.
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This is the lowest 4-year NGDP growth rate since 1935.
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SAP, Oracle, Baan and the like grew nearly 50% a year in the past three years, but this year the growth rate has fallen by more than half.
The top 10 also includes American Superconductor (47.5%), which provides power grid technologies, solid-state drive maker STEC (34.4%), and MIPS Technologies (32.5%), which has a 3-year EPS growth rate of 71%.
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