Earnings growth

How fast a company’s profits are rising or falling.

How it’s calculated

Change in earnings compared with a year earlier, as a percentage. StockDecks shows two readings: year on year, and the latest quarter against the same quarter a year before.

How to read it

Earnings can move much faster than revenue in either direction, because costs don’t always rise or fall in step with sales.

Growth from a very small or loss-making base can produce enormous percentages that say little.

How StockDecks scores it

Higher scores better. On the general benchmark, −20% counts as weak, +5% as typical and +30% as strong, for both readings.

It is one of the measures behind the Growth rating. Every measure, benchmark and weighting is set out on the methodology page.

Real examples

Across the 95 companies StockDecks has a page for with this figure available, as of 24 October 2026, the middle value is 19.4%.

Lowest

Johnson & Johnson -95.9% · Whitbread -70.2% · GSK -69.5%

Highest

Marks and Spencer 1760% · Smiths 1550.1% · Legal & General 507.1%

Figures from Yahoo Finance, captured 24 October 2026. Being high or low on one measure says little on its own — each company page shows how this measure sits alongside the others.