Sure, but for the majority of companies, they generally don't experience hockey stick growth out of the blue, nor do
they suddenly fall off a cliff... [Novice investors are particularly susceptible to the «hockey stick» assumption, blithely ignoring the fact they / other investors have sometimes been waiting years already for the same exceptional growth surge!]
In reality, as I noted in my last post, a company's future reflects its past more often than not, and companies «generally don't experience hockey stick growth out of the blue (nor do
they suddenly fall off a cliff...)»