She rates Kors as Overweight, and sees annual earnings per share growth between 25% to 30%.
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Oberhelman said Caterpillar needs to deliver compound annual earnings per share growth of 15% to 20%.
This means the annual dividend exceeds the annual earnings per share.
Thanks to recent cost-cutting, sales growth of 5.5% a year has translated into a 36% annual rise in earnings per share.
It has a five-year average annual earnings-per-share growth of 39% and a 24% return on equity for the past 12 months.
As examples of consistent financial performance, Stack cites PepsiCo's past five- and fifteen-year periods with average annual earnings-per-share (EPS) growth of 16% and 11%, respectively.
For years, the formula worked: He turned a bunch of so-so stores near Knoxville into the U.S.' fourth-largest retailer, averaging 20% compound annual growth in earnings per share from 1987 to 1997.
The report suggests that public companies stop their issuing of earnings guidance, or at least offer an annual guidance that includes several earnings per share numbers instead of the current system of including one EPS number per quarter.
But in the past five years Abaxis has bolted forward, its sales expanding at a 23% annual clip, its earnings per share an astonishing 94%.
For the past 25 years sales and earnings per share have grown an annual 29% and 17%, respectively.
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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Avery Dennison witnessed 77% annual growth in its adjusted earnings to 53 cents per share in the third quarter, comfortably beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 45 cents.
To help them, the investors' main trade bodies set guidelines: companies that give share options to their top people are urged to make them conditional on minimum growth in earnings-per-share, and to restrict their value to four times the recipients' annual earnings, at the time they are awarded.
BOK's earnings per share have risen at a steady 14% annual pace the past five years.
Over the past decade the company's earnings per share have been climbing at an 11% annual rate.
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%.
In addition to impressive earnings growth, Hershey pays a regular quarterly dividend of 42 cents per share, representing an annual dividend yield of 2.3%.
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Though it slightly underperforms its domestic peer group in return on assets and return on equity, Popular's earnings per share are growing faster (15.3% vs. 12.7% compound annual growth over the last five years).
We looked for companies that had both quarterly and annual reductions in outstanding shares, a price-to-earnings ratio of less than 25, three-year earnings per share growth of more than 15% and debt to total capital of less than 30%.
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