S&P 500 Year-over-Year Revenue Growth (TTM)

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Source: Company filings (aggregated)

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What it measures

The S&P 500 revenue growth rate (year-over-year, trailing twelve months) measures the percentage change in aggregate revenues across index constituents from the prior-year period. It is the broadest available gauge of top-line expansion or contraction for the U.S. large-cap equity market: a reading of +6% means total revenues across the index grew 6% versus the same twelve-month window one year earlier.

Why it matters

Revenue growth is a leading indicator of earnings quality because profit margins can be managed through cost cuts and accruals whereas top-line growth requires genuine economic activity. Aggregate revenues tend to inflect before reported earnings, tying index-level revenue growth tightly to the business cycle and making it an early signal of whether an EPS expansion has durable demand behind it or rests on margin arithmetic alone. Sustained valuation expansion without corresponding revenue growth has historically been a reliable precursor to multiple compression, as the gap between price and fundamental cash-flow capacity eventually closes.

How it is calculated

Revenue Growth (YoY, TTM) = (Σ Revenue_TTM_t − Σ Revenue_TTM_t−4Q) ÷ |Σ Revenue_TTM_t−4Q| × 100

LENSE computes the S&P 500 revenue growth rate as a market-capitalization-weighted aggregate across current index constituents — total trailing-twelve-month revenues for the current period divided by total trailing-twelve-month revenues for the year-earlier period — not a simple average of per-company growth rates. TTM revenues are constructed by summing the four most recently reported fiscal quarters per constituent, using as-reported figures to preserve the original filing-date record. Index constituency is resolved point-in-time using point-in-time index constituency so that additions, deletions, and reconstitutions are reflected as of each historical date rather than projected backward from today's composition. Revenue figures are sourced from aggregated company filings as reported; no pro-forma or adjusted revenue figures are used.

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Data source: Company filings (aggregated). Computed and published by LENSE Analytics.