Green Hills Software has achieved spectacular business success with a focus on growing earnings per share. This success is due to an exceptionally long period of substantial revenue growth.
Green Hills Software has averaged nearly 30% per year revenue growthfor the last 26 years and maintained an average operating profit margin of more than 20%. Very few public companies have achieved as high a rate of growth or as high a profit margin for as long.
This extraordinary earnings-per-share growth was accomplished without capital investment beyond an initial $83,000 investment in 1982. From this $83,000, Green Hills Software has earned more than $184 million in cumulative net income (according to audited financial statements under GAAP) and paid over $91 million in cash dividends.
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