CAGR Calculator
Compute the compound annual growth rate.
How to use
- 1 Enter the beginning value.
- 2 Enter the ending value.
- 3 Enter the number of years between them.
- 4 Read off the CAGR percent and the growth multiple.
About CAGR Calculator
The CAGR Calculator computes the compound annual growth rate — the single smoothed yearly rate that takes a beginning value to an ending value over a given number of years.
Enter the starting value, the ending value and the term in years, and it returns the CAGR as a percent along with the overall growth multiple, so you can see both the per-year rate and how many times your money grew.
CAGR is the standard way to describe long-run growth because it strips out the noise of year-to-year volatility and answers a clean question: if this had grown at a constant rate, what would that rate be? It is computed as (end / begin) raised to the power of one over the number of years, minus one.
That exponent makes it tedious to work out by hand, but it is exactly the figure analysts quote for revenue, portfolios and user numbers, precisely because it is comparable across different time spans.
A decline produces a negative CAGR and a multiple below one, which reads as cleanly as growth does.
The calculator runs locally in your browser, so your figures never leave your device.
FAQ
What does CAGR actually tell me?
It tells you the constant annual rate that would have grown the beginning value into the ending value over the period — a single number that smooths out the ups and downs along the way.
Can CAGR be negative?
Yes. If the ending value is below the beginning value, the CAGR is negative and the growth multiple is below one, reflecting an overall decline.