Leading, Slipping, Gaining, Lagging (LSGL) Analysis of Real Total Industry Earnings Growth
2001-2010

Borrowing from an approach that sometimes appears in the finance sections of the popular press, LSGL analysis is a handy and versatile way to compare, portray and classify the patterns of real total industry earnings growth across all of Wyoming's 23 counties.

Here, we adopt this approach to gauge and compare the real total industry earnings growth of Wyoming's 23 counties over the past year (2010) against the backdrop of their growth over the past decade (2001-2010). In so doing we classify their growth and performance into 4 broad categories: Leading, Slipping, Gaining and Lagging. Particular attention is given to highlighting and assessing the growth of Real Total Industry Earnings.