Over the last year, the earnings of the average company in the group grew by more than 50 percent.

He wants earnings per share to grow more than 10 percent a year.

She said earnings should grow 20 percent a year over three years.

Its earnings grew 14 percent in the first half of the year.

Over the next two to three years, he said, earnings could grow 20 percent.

Earnings per share were growing 10 to 15 percent in the first and second quarter.

During that time, earnings grew by more than 20 percent every year but one.

She projects earnings to grow 13 percent a year, on average, over the next five years.

But its 1998 earnings should grow by a far higher multiple, he said.

And indeed, those earnings have been growing at a compound rate of more than 17 percent for the last 10 years.