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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.
With that in mind, here are the most rapidly growing stocks in the Dow: Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Visa (NYSE:V): 18.1% projected five-year growth rate. Among the fastest growing stocks in the Dow, payment processing facilitator Visa takes the cake with a whopping EPS growth rate of 18% per year. Following the $2.27 in EPS it reported in 2014, Visa's EPS is expected to hit $4.14 by 2018.