Compound annual growth rate calculator
What was the annual growth rate between two values?
Enter a starting value, an ending value and the years between them to get the single smooth annual rate that connects them — useful for revenue, earnings or a balance.
- Written by
- Pro Investor Academy Research Team
- Content type
- Calculator
- Published
- 2026-09-13
- Last reviewed
- 2026-09-13
Compound annual growth rate
7.62%
The single smooth rate that connects the two values. It hides every good and bad year in between. For an account that also received deposits, this is not the investment return.
Total change
80%
How to read the result
- A compound rate hides the path. Two companies with the same rate can have had completely different years.
- Use it on multi-year windows. Over one or two years it is noise dressed as a trend.
- Compare a company's revenue rate with its earnings and cash-flow rates; divergence is the interesting part.
What this calculator cannot tell you
- Past growth is a record, not a prediction of future growth.
- One unusual start or end year distorts the whole result.
- Arithmetic on the two values you enter, nothing else.
Terms used here
Sources and methodology
Standard future-value arithmetic. Every figure is hypothetical and depends entirely on the assumptions you enter.
- Investor.gov investor education — U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionPrimary source
- Intelligent Accumulation methodology — Pro Investor AcademyPrimary source
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