The search for more accurate evaluation models has been a permanent activity within the field of corporative finances. A successful model must forecast, with a high degree of confidence and accuracy, the future behavior of incomes, costs, expenditures and investments. Companies´ growth rates are also important; they depend on several internal and external factors and their evaluation can be a very complex task. Our work evaluates critically some valuation ratios used by financial analysts like: price-to-earnings, market-to-book and price-to-sales ratios, in order to obtain useful information about the following itens future behavior: Gross Revenue, EBITDA and Operating Profit of companies listed at São Paulo Stock Exchange (BOVESPA) during the period 1994-2003. The Wilcoxon´s nonparametric test suggests: an inverse relationship between the market- to-book index to the registered companies growth rate and no noticeable relationship between price-to-earnings ratios and price-to-sales ratios to the same companies´ growth rate.