noted a 286 per cent growth in S/4HANA cloud in the latest quarter’s results...
If you're holding a £1 coin and discover a £5 note down the back of the sofa then that's 600% growth!! It doesn't suddenly transform your overall financial status though.
Superficially impressive growth rates are usually indicative of catastrophic prior performance creating a baseline it would be next to impossible to fail against. That's why the leading countries for GDP growth in any given year are usually recovering from wars or other disasters (I think Libya is the leader right now in about 50% - Iraq is around 10% - Syria will doubtless exceed both in a year or two).