Definition
Revenue growth
The change in revenue versus the prior period, as a share of the prior period. It is the first number an analyst reads — and only honest when both years come from the same filing, because each new annual report restates the prior year on the current accounting basis. Stitching figures across different reports compares mismatched bases.
Revenue growth = (Revenue − Prior-year revenue) ÷ Prior-year revenue
- Volume
- more units, users, or transactions — growth's organic engine.
- Price
- realized price changes flow straight into the top line at constant volume.
- Mix
- shifting sales toward higher- or lower-priced products moves blended revenue without any unit change.
- Acquisitions & currency
- deals and translation effects grow reported revenue without organic change — filings often split these out.
Income statement (Consolidated Statements of Operations). 10-K Item 8 — the current year and the restated prior year sit side by side in the same statement; compute growth from those two columns, never across filings.
XBRL concepts Echelon grounds to: Revenues · RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax · SalesRevenueNet
- A bank's 'revenue' blends net interest income and fees — growth there answers a different question than product-company growth.
- The larger the move, the more a mismatched basis distorts it — the same-filing rule matters most exactly when growth is dramatic.
Educational use only — not investment advice. Figures come from public SEC filings; Echelon teaches you to analyze data, it never recommends buying or selling any security.