Revenue vs earnings
Revenue is the total money a company takes in from sales; earnings (net income) is what is left after all its costs — the two can move in very different directions.
Revenue (the "top line") is the total value of goods and services a company sells in a period. Earnings, or net income (the "bottom line"), is what remains after subtracting every cost: production, operating expenses, interest, and taxes. A company can grow revenue quickly while losing money, or grow earnings while revenue is flat by cutting costs.
Both matter, and reading them together is the point. Fast revenue growth with no path to profit is a very different story from steady revenue with expanding earnings. Analysts watch revenue growth as a signal of demand and market share, and earnings as the ultimate test of whether that demand becomes profit.
stocks-llm surfaces revenue growth (year-over-year and multi-year CAGR) and profitability separately, as delayed data with their as-of dates, so a "growing" company is never conflated with a profitable one.
Highest 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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