What Is Financial Statement Growth Analysis?
Growth analysis compares reported amounts across periods. The comparison base matters as much as the current value: a quarterly change, a year-over-year change, and a three-year cumulative change answer different questions. This viewer presents 39 FMP growth fields with their reporting dates, fiscal years, periods, and currencies.
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Quarterly Growth Is Not Automatically Year over Year
For the checked AAPL fiscal 2026 Q3 response, revenue is 109.417 billion versus 111.184 billion in Q2. The returned growth is approximately −1.59%, matching the preceding-quarter change. Revenue in fiscal 2025 Q3 is 94.036 billion, giving a different year-over-year change of approximately +16.36%. These are provider-response examples, not forecasts or a recommendation.
With a positive comparison base, percentage change is (current − previous) / previous. If the base is zero, a conventional percentage is undefined; negative bases can produce signs that conflict with an economic improvement. Do not infer recovery or deterioration from the sign alone.
Cumulative Growth and CAGR Are Different
In the checked annual response, AAPL fiscal 2025 revenue per share divided by fiscal 2022 revenue per share, minus one, equals approximately 14.49%. That matches the three-year field. Annualizing the same change gives (1 + 0.14485)^(1 / 3) − 1, or about 4.61% per year. The table displays the cumulative provider value; it does not apply this annualization.
Per-share metrics change with both the company total and the share count. For a hypothetical business with unchanged profit margins, 6% net-income growth and a 3% reduction in weighted-average shares would produce about 9.28% EPS growth: 1.06 / 0.97 − 1. This arithmetic does not establish that a buyback was well priced.
Revenue and earnings
Revenue can rise through acquisitions, currency effects, or price changes as well as unit demand. Net income and EPS can also reflect one-off gains or tax changes. Inspect the causes before extrapolating growth.
Operating income and EBIT
The provider exposes operating-income and EBIT growth separately. They are not interchangeable: non-operating income and the chosen definition can make the underlying profit amounts differ.
Cash flow and capital spending
Free cash flow commonly subtracts capital expenditure from operating cash flow. Working-capital timing and investment cycles can move it sharply. Expense and capital-expenditure fields may use signed cash-flow conventions; inspect the amounts before interpreting the growth sign.
Book value, debt, and shares
Book value reflects accounting equity rather than intrinsic value. More debt or more shares is not automatically good, and shrinking inventory is not automatically bad. The table uses neutral text so a positive sign is not presented as an investment verdict.
Data Limits and Verification
FMP supplies the calculated growth fields. A missing value is shown as a dash; zero is retained as returned and can still require verification. Fiscal dates are not filing or revision timestamps, and historical rows are not a point-in-time backtesting dataset. Longer-horizon data may be unavailable for newer companies. Compare the same accounting definitions and currencies, and inspect original statements before relying on the result.
Sources: FMP Financial Statement Growth API and SEC non-GAAP guidance, EBIT and EBITDA. The numerical examples above reconcile the growth endpoint with the corresponding FMP income-statement response.