Television has also had a hand in accelerating sales.
The new versions created accelerating sales growth rates for both drugs and helped Amgen expand into new markets, Mr. Hyan said.
It was much larger—$185 billion—at the end of 2008 but since then banks have closed the gap by accelerating sales of non-core businesses and restructuring capital instruments.
Accelerating sales of medical devices, which account for a third of Johnson & Johnson's revenue, are helping the company weather a slowdown in pharmaceutical sales growth that has decreased profit at rivals focused mainly on drugs.
"The core strengths of the company had been product technology, innovation and reliability," said Mr. Kisker, who spent 13 years at SAP. "But they had begun focusing too much on accelerating sales".
Terry S. Semel, Yahoo's chief executive, attributed the financial results mainly to accelerating sales in the company's two advertising businesses -- graphic display advertising and text ads linked to Internet searches.
Wholesale inventories rose 0.6percentt in December, the Commerce Department reported yesterday, the biggest jump in a year, as companies sought to build stockpiles to keep up with accelerating sales in an expanding economy.
Look for leaders in earnings quality, operating momentum and accelerating sales growth.
As a result, this leads to accelerating sales growth while fostering trade potential (Potoski and Prakash 2009; Terlaak and King 2006).
Oberweis likes stocks with accelerating sales and earnings, and he doesn't mind a price/earnings ratio that is up to twice the growth rate.
Shares of Broadcom brcm rose to a record high Wednesday on optimism for accelerating sales of its chips used in communications equipment.
