advisors Comparing the historical returns of stocks with bonds or with a savings account Forecasting future values based on the CAGR of a data series (you find future values by multiplying the last datum of the series by (1 + CAGR) as many times as years required). As with every forecasting method, this method has a calculation error associated. Analyzing and communicating the behavior, over a series of years, of different business measures such as sales, market share, costs, customer satisfaction, and performance. See also Annual growth % Arithmetic mean Average annual return Continuous compounding Geometric mean Exponential growth References Actuarial science Mathematical finance Non-Newtonian calculus