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20 companies with zooming sales and fattening margins that can power their stocks forward

February 14, 2019

Investors are used to seeing earnings-season headlines as companies typically “beat” analysts’ estimates for sales and earnings. This is part of the Wall Street game, aided by the companies themselves, that sets up an earnings-beat rate that typically exceeds two-thirds of the S&P 500.

But beating an estimate alone means nothing — a company can have declining sales or earnings and still report results higher than what analysts expect.

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