If a single word could capture John Brown’s reputation at Stryker it is consistency. As he was taking Stryker public in 1979, he made a promise to grow sales and earnings 20% a year. And to Wall Street’s continuing amazement, he has delivered year in and year out. So completely has that goal been internalized by Wall Street that the consensus earnings growth rate (consensus of 25 analysts) for 2004-2009 is 20.0%. Not 20.5% or 19.5%. 20.0%. Over the past five years, Stryker’s compound earnings growth rate is 24.7%… http://ow.ly/y8ZE
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