Air Lease Corporation is an aircraft leasing company. Co. is principally engaged in purchasing the technology commercial jet aircraft directly from aircraft manufacturers, such as Airbus S.A.S. (Airbus) and The Boeing Co. (Boeing) and leasing those aircraft to airlines throughout the world. In addition to its leasing activities, the Co. sells aircraft from its fleet to third parties, including other leasing companies, financial services companies, airlines and other investors. Co. also provide fleet management services to investors and owners of aircraft portfolios for a management fee. The AL YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the AL 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 AL 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 AL 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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