Who Has the Most Stable Earnings Growth?

I’ve recently been digging through tons of financial data, and I was curious to see which stock had the most consistent earnings growth. By that, I mean which stock seemed to grow its earnings by roughly the same percent every year.

I didn’t do a scientific survey but from my perusing, it seemed that the winner was Torchmark Corporation (TMK).

Thankfully, HarvestInvestor came to the rescue and did run the numbers. HI looked at the last 20 years’ worth of data, and provided the average earnings growth, the standard deviation of that growth, and the latter divided by the former (meaning earnings variance per unit of growth).

It’s interesting to see so many Buy List stocks, former Buy List stocks and members of our informal Watch List.

Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on May 19th, 2016 at 8:56 pm

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