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Fastest-Growth Industries for U.S. Small Businesses in 2012. 1  Residential building construction: 14.77 percent. 2  Building custom software and servers for businesses: 14.29 percent. 3  Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers: 13.75 percent.  Management, scientific, and technical consulting services: 12.31 percent.
That's not good for the stock market, which is largely powered by the health of companies' bottom lines. While the profit outlook looks bleak in many corners of the stock market, some companies are still posting impressive growth. Here are the 10 fastest-growing companies in the S&P 500. The list is based on an analysis of 2015 projected earnings per share by S&P Capital IQ. This doesn't mean these will be the top stocks (or that they will hire a lot of new workers), but these companies are expected to have an amazing financial year.