Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

by Mark Minervini

HITTING ON ALL CYLINDERS: THE CODE 33 When a company grows its sales at an accelerating rate (25 percent, then 35 percent, then 45 percent, and so on), this is great. Better still, though, is a company that accelerates its sales and expands its profit margins at the same time. This powerful combination can ignite earnings and fuel explosive stock price appreciation. The result is a condition in which the company can grow its earnings at a much faster rate than it could if sales or margins were accelerating only by themselves or if neither were accelerating. The best situation for rapid earnings growth is to be hitting on all cylinders as sales accelerate and profit margins expand simultaneously.