Growth stock
A growth stock is a company expected to grow revenue and earnings faster than average, usually reinvesting profits rather than paying dividends.
A growth stock is shares in a company whose revenue and earnings are expanding, or are expected to expand, faster than the broader market. These companies typically plow their profits back into the business — R&D, expansion, hiring — rather than paying them out as dividends, betting that reinvestment will compound into much larger future profits.
Because their value rests heavily on future growth, growth stocks often trade at high P/E and price-to-sales multiples and can be volatile: strong results push them higher, but any stumble or a rise in interest rates (which discounts future profits) can hit them hard. They are the opposite pole from "value" stocks, which trade cheaply relative to current earnings.
stocks-llm surfaces real revenue-growth figures (year-over-year and multi-year), shown with their as-of date, so "growth" is grounded in reported data rather than a label. The live list below ranks the catalog by year-over-year revenue growth.
Fastest year-over-year revenue growth in the catalog
| Company | Revenue growth (YoY) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4D MOLECULAR THERAPEUTICS INC (FDMT) | +383560.9% |
| 2 | vTv Therapeutics Inc. (VTVT) | +216600.0% |
| 3 | JOBY AVIATION INC CLASS A (JOBY) | +69860.4% |
| 4 | VIRIDIAN THERAPEUTICS ORS INC (VRDN) | +23382.8% |
| 5 | QXO, Inc. (QXO) | +15198.7% |
Live from the catalog, as of 2026-07-21 — delayed data from SEC EDGAR + Finnhub.
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