GlossaryConstant currency growth

Constant currency growth

Constant currency growth is a company's recalculated as if exchange rates had stayed the same as the prior period, stripping out the effect of currency movements. It is commonly reported by companies with significant international .

Because reported is measured in a single currency, usually the US dollar, a strengthening dollar can make international look weaker than the underlying business actually performed, and a weakening dollar can flatter it. Constant currency growth is meant to isolate how the business itself actually performed, separate from currency swings and, for that reason, separate from , which typically strips out the effect of instead.