Ameren is a public utility holding company. Through its subsidiary, Union Electric Company, Co. operates a rate-regulated electric generation, transmission, and distribution business and a rate-regulated natural gas distribution business. Through its subsidiary, Ameren Illinois Company, Co. operates rate-regulated electric transmission, electric distribution, and natural gas distribution businesses. Through its subsidiary, Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois, Co. operates a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rate-regulated electric transmission business. Co. also has other subsidiaries that conduct other activities, such as providing shared services. The Ameren YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the Ameren 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 Ameren 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 AEE 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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