# Growth Rate Formula: How to Calculate Business Growth

DevFeed: [Growth Rate Formula: How to Calculate Business Growth](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/growth-rate-formula-how-to-calculate-business-growth-9887.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dodopayments.com/blogs/growth-rate-formula/>)

Author: Ayush Agarwal

Published: 2026-04-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Dodo Payments Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dodo-payments-blog.md>)

Topics: [Software as a service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saas.md>), [math](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/math.md>)

Tags: [growth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/growth.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [revenue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/revenue.md>), [saas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas.md>), [saas-finance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas-finance.md>), [saas-metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas-metrics.md>)

## AI overview

A practical guide to calculating and interpreting business growth rates for SaaS metrics. It presents the standard percentage-change formula, gives an MRR example, and explains how to use comparable periods and supporting metrics such as acquisition, retention, expansion, and margins.

## Source excerpt

Learn the most useful growth rate formulas for SaaS, how to interpret them correctly, and which supporting metrics founders should track alongside growth.