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.

Formula

Revenue growth = (Revenue − Prior-year revenue) ÷ Prior-year revenue

Drivers — what actually moves it

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.

Where to find it in the filing

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

Sector caveats — where this breaks

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.

Drill it in a live lesson Operating leverage P/E ratio Fiscal year

Drill revenue growth on another filer

Graded exercises that use this metric — each one against a different company's own filed figures.

NVIDIA's revenue growth: the trap scales with the move AbbVie's revenue growth: one filing, both years Airbnb's revenue growth: one filing, both years Abbott's revenue growth: one filing, both years Adobe's revenue growth: one filing, both years Analog Devices' revenue growth: one filing, both years

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.