To Make Money In Stocks,?IBD founder and chairman William stressed, It's not just increased earnings that cause a big move, it's also the size of the increase plus the improvement from the company's prior percentage rate of earnings growth.?p>To create this list, IBD screened for stocks with quarterly earnings growth of at least 25%. And profit growth in the latest three quarters had to be above those same quarters from a year ago. IBD SmartSelect Composite Ratings of 85 or higher, Stocks with high Composite Ratings generally have a strong blend of fundamentals and leading price performance within its industry group.

Additionally, IBD screened for stocks with Earnings Per Share (EPS*) and Relative Price Strength (RS**) Ratings of 70 or higher. This ensures that the companies meet a criteria of strong sales and earnings growth as well as leading price performance.

Furthermore, stocks had to be priced $15 or higher with an average volume of at least 200,000 shares. Lastly, only stocks trading within 20% of 52-week highs were included. Data as of market close July 25

Earnings growth is vital to a high-performance stock. While that's true, there is one thing that can make things even sweeter ?accelerating earnings growth.

While a company showing profit growth of in the 20%-to-30% range is nice, one flaunting 25%, 35%, 50% and 75% increases quarter after quarter is even better. Results like this show power. It's telling you that not only business is good, but things are picking up.