compound annual growth rate

compound annual growth rate definition - finance
A year-over-year growth rate that is calculated on an investment that has been made or a stock that has been purchased.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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