In the retail space investors look at same store sales[0] (or comps) to see if a company's growth is coming existing stores, or just from opening new ones. [0]

In the retail space investors look at same store sales[0] (or comps) to see if a company's growth is coming existing stores, or just from opening new ones. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_store_sales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_store_sales