The 10 Best Growth Investments – Low Dividends, High Growth And Return

The Best Growing Companies With Highest 3-Year Total Return Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Growth stocks are very good investment vehicles to boost your wealth if you have paid an acceptable price for the business in the past. If so, your return on investment should high enough to compensate all underlying risks. I screened the best 100 growth stocks from with the highest rate of 3-year total return. Below the ten best stocks are only two that pay dividends; eight are currently recommended to buy and four of the 100 best growth stocks have a triple-digit return. Remarkable is the low debt and high growth from the stocks. Sometimes it makes really sense to accept a low dividends or to renounce dividends in exchange for growth and return.

Here are my favorite stocks:

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Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ:LULU) has a market capitalization of $9.94 billion. The company employs 5,807 people, generates revenue of $1,000.84 million and has a net income of $184.96 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $316.98 million. The EBITDA margin is 31.67 percent (operating margin 28.67 percent and net profit margin 18.48 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 0.00 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 37.12 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.49. Last fiscal year, the company paid no dividends to shareholders. LULU has a total 3-Year total return of 109 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 46.46, P/S ratio 7.77 and P/B ratio 16.48. Dividend Yield: None percent. The beta ratio is 2.38.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Lululemon Athletica (Click to enlarge)

Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) has a market capitalization of $11.69 billion. The company employs 30,940 people, generates revenue of $2,269.55 million and has a net income of $214.94 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $425.50 million. The EBITDA margin is 18.75 percent (operating margin 15.45 percent and net profit margin 9.47 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 0.26 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.35 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 23.17 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $8.60. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.00 in form of dividends to shareholders. CMG has a total 3-Year total return of 68 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 28.25, P/S ratio 3.39 and P/B ratio 7.27. Dividend Yield: None percent. The beta ratio is 0.88.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Chipotle Mexican Grill (Click to enlarge)

HollyFrontier (NYSE:HFC) has a market capitalization of $7.77 billion. The company employs 2,382 people, generates revenue of $15,439.53 million and has a net income of $1,059.70 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,876.14 million. The EBITDA margin is 12.15 percent (operating margin 11.12 percent and net profit margin 6.86 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 11.78 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 23.34 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 34.68 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $7.09. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.34 in form of dividends to shareholders. HFC has a total 3-Year total return of 64 percent.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 5.38, P/S ratio 0.50 and P/B ratio 1.54. Dividend Yield: 1.57 percent. The beta ratio is 1.01.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of HollyFrontier (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of HollyFrontier (HFC) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of HollyFrontier (NYSE: HFC) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table of the 10 best growth investments over the past three years. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 43.40 and forward P/E ratio is 19.87. The dividend yield has a value of 0.48 percent. Price to book ratio is 7.22 and price to sales ratio 5.64. The operating margin amounts to 21.52 percent. The average stock is low leveraged and has a debt to equity ratio of 0.24.

Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):

10 Best Growth Investments By Total Return (Click to enlarge)

Here is the full list sorted by Total Return: 

Rank	Company	Fastest-growing	Total return
		rank	(3-year)
1	Questcor Pharmaceuticals	28	120%
2	3D Systems	12	112%
3	TPC Group	36	111%
4	lululemon athletica	6	109%
5	Catamaran	11	98%
6	Cirrus Logic	2	88%
7	priceline.com	14	81%
8	Alexion Pharmaceuticals	17	69%
9	Chipotle Mexican Grill	73	68%
10	HollyFrontier	4	64%
11	Under Armour	51	62%
12	Apple	8	60%
13	IPG Photonics	9	58%
14	51job	20	57%
15	Baidu	3	56%
16	East West Bancorp	79	55%
17	Hi-Tech Pharmacal	22	54%
18	Wynn Resorts	26	53%
19	HFF	5	53%
20	OYO Geospace	31	52%
21	Pioneer Natural Resources	29	51%
22	Intuitive Surgical	50	50%
23	RPC	10	50%
24	TransGlobe Energy	30	50%
25	VMware	52	49%
26	Silver Wheaton	1	49%
27	Fossil	86	47%
28	Rackspace Hosting	67	47%
29	Epoch Holding	19	45%
30	Gulfport Energy	27	44%
31	Concho Resources	32	44%
32	IMAX	82	44%
33	MWI Veterinary Supply	80	43%
34	MarketAxess Holdings	33	43%
35	F5 Networks	53	42%
36	MercadoLibre	41	42%
37	Triumph Group	44	42%
38	Steven Madden	56	41%
39	Impax Laboratories	13	40%
40	AmTrust Financial Services	60	40%
41	SciClone Pharmaceuticals	39	40%
42	Internet Initiative Japan	65	40%
43	SolarWinds	76	38%
44	Ascena Retail Group	58	38%
45	Coinstar	15	37%
46	Ultratech	49	37%
47	Northern Oil and Gas	7	36%
48	Darling International	40	36%
49	HMS Holdings	92	35%
50	EZchip Semiconductor	62	35%
51	Netgear	45	34%
52	Titan Machinery	66	34%
53	Portfolio Recovery	100	33%
54	Whiting Petroleum	70	33%
55	Cognizant Technology Solutions	85	31%
56	Encore Capital Group	90	31%
57	ExlService Holdings	61	30%
58	SVB Financial	83	29%
59	Clean Harbors	69	28%
60	Cliffs Natural Resources	34	28%
61	Coherent	55	28%
62	Super Micro Computer	98	27%
63	American Equity Investment Life	18	27%
64	Cymer	68	26%
65	Electro Rent	99	25%
66	Ebix	87	24%
67	BorgWarner	64	24%
68	Gentex	54	24%
69	Affiliated Managers Group	96	0%
70	Warner Chilcott	21	23%
71	Southern Copper	94	23%
72	Acme Packet	37	23%
73	Tempur-Pedic International	93	21%
74	Medifast	46	20%
75	NetEase	81	19%
76	3SBio	89	18%
77	Buenaventura Mining	74	18%
78	Investors Bancorp	71	18%
79	Silvercorp Metals	48	18%
80	NetApp	72	17%
81	ZAGG	24	17%
82	Semtech	88	15%
83	Opentable	43	14%
84	Hollysys Automation Technologies	42	14%
85	Lam Research	75	13%
86	Riverbed Technology	57	12%
87	Broadcom	78	11%
88	Materion	59	0%
89	Rush Enterprises	95	11%
90	Celgene	91	10%
91	Bridgepoint Education	16	9%
92	Grand Canyon Education	63	8%
93	Vale	97	7%
94	IAMGOLD	47	7%
95	United Therapeutics	25	6%
96	TTM Technologies	38	6%
97	Barrick Gold	77	5%
98	Green Mountain Coffee Roasters	35	3%
99	Pan American Silver	23	-2%
100	AsiaInfo-Linkage	84	-12%
Average			36.43%

Related stock ticker symbols:

QCOR, DDD, TPCG, LULU, CTRX, CRUS, PCLN, ALXN, CMG, HFC

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