Persistent earnings growth captivates almost everyone, from the top brass to research analysts. This is because earnings are a measure of the money a company is making.Still, earnings acceleration works even better when lifting the stock price. Studies have shown that most successful stocks have seen an acceleration in earnings before an uptick in the stock price.Earnings acceleration is the incremental growth in a company’s earnings per share (EPS). In other words, if the rate of a company’s quarter-over-q ...