But growth investors prefer to use prices relative to future earnings as a gauge.
Now, such companies are largely passe to the growth investor, although some have done very well in the stock market.
A growth investor might assess how well the company will be able to sustain its rapid revenue increases.
FOR growth investors, it has been one tough decade.
But tech stocks do have more steadfast loyalists among growth investors.
By contrast, growth investors prefer companies whose earnings or sales are likely to outpace the average.
Even the most committed growth investors have their breaking points.
I've been called both a value investor and a growth investor.
But the bear market in stocks has hit growth investors hard, and none have suffered more than Janus.
It doesn't take much to scare an aggressive growth investor out of a stock.