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...Earnings gains may make for good financial headlines but they don't necessarily reflect the growth of the underlying business. Indeed, most companies have just wrapped up a year of dismal quarterly results where many slashed jobs and other expenses to weather the debilitating recession and frozen credit markets. Thus, the near-term earnings may look much improved even though demand for a company's products may have slumped. "Cost-cutting has been the major force driving earnings and earnings surprises," says Dirk Van Dijk, chief equity strategist at Zacks Investment Research, which monitors earnings projections from Wall Street analysts...
...Dijk and other experts say investors should now pay special attention to top-line sales-revenue growth in addition to earnings for insight into a company's true business growth. Randy Cass, founder of First Coverage Inc., a financial-services-research company, agrees, noting that "2010 will be much more of a 'show me' type of year," in which investors demand clear data indicating that company fundamentals back up the run-up in stock prices seen...
...company's rivals are on track to post even bigger gains: Cash America and EZCorp are currently projecting earnings growth of up to 20% in fiscal 2010. The three companies' stocks improved in 2009 - Cash America climbed 28%, First Cash rose 16% and EZCorp was up 13% - and analysts expect the rally to continue this year. "You've got cheap stocks growing at 20% a year," says Coffey, "so the stage is set for a pretty good...
...Sara and Joshua just had a baby. They received money as baby gifts and want to put it away for the baby's education. Which of the following tends to have the highest growth over periods of time as long as 18 years? A. A checking account B. Stocks C. A U.S. government savings bond D. A savings account 17% of high school seniors answered this question correctly
...Jack R. Meyer, then-CEO of HMC who presided over a long period of endowment growth, left the organization with 30 employees to start a hedge fund after some alumni protests resulted in a flurry of negative media attention and salary decreases for top-performing HMC portfolio managers...