Astrotech is a mass spectrometry company that launches, manages, and commercializes companies based on its main technology. Co.'s business units are: Astrotech Technologies, Inc., which owns and licenses the Astrotech Mass Spectrometer Technology; 1st Detect Corporation, which has developed the TRACER 1000, a mass spectrometer based explosives trace detector; AgLAB Inc., which has developed the AgLAB-1000 series of mass spectrometers for use in the hemp and cannabis market; and BreathTech Corporation, which is developing the BreathTest-1000, a breath analysis tool to screen for volatile organic compound metabolites found in a person's breath. The ASTC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the ASTC 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 ASTC 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 ASTC 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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