"G.E. hasn't generated double-digit earnings for six years," he said.

Two of the biggest banks in France reported double-digit first-half earnings growth yesterday.

I.B.M. earned $8.1 billion on revenue of $88.4 billion last year and is on the path to double-digit earnings growth again this year.

PepsiCo announced its fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings growth yesterday and predicted a sixth, despite a persistent weakness in soda sales.

He uses a test with nine variables to identify companies with the potential for double-digit earnings and revenue growth, ideally over the next three to five years.

Donald R. Beal, Rockwell's chairman and chief executive, said the results supported the company's projection of "double-digit earnings per share growth for the full fiscal year."

Two large drug companies, Merck and Warner-Lambert, announced double-digit earnings growth yesterday, but investors seemed preoccupied with national trends that may limit future pharmaceutical profits.

Formed in 1963, Golden West's assets today total more than $100 billion and it has posted strong double-digit per-share earnings for decades.

"The new-product portfolio Boston is piecing together can restore double-digit earnings and sales growth, but it will probably take until 2009."

Morgan's treasury services and asset management divisions both posted double-digit earnings from a year ago, and its commercial banking unit showed a more modest 4 percent gain.