Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare company involved in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of diverse healthcare products. It operates through four segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, which focuses on international sales of branded generic pharmaceuticals; Diagnostic Products, which provides diagnostic systems and tests globally; Nutritional Products, offering a wide range of adult and pediatric nutrition products worldwide; and Medical Devices, which includes products for rhythm management, electrophysiology, heart failure, vascular, structural heart, neuromodulation, and diabetes care. The ABT YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the ABT YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether ABT YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the ABT YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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