Big Lots, through its subsidiaries, is a home discount retailer. Co.'s merchandise categories are: Food, which includes beverage and grocery, specialty foods and pet departments; Consumables, which includes health, beauty and cosmetics departments; Soft Home, which includes home decor, frames, bedding and bath departments; Hard Home, which includes small appliances, food preparation, stationery, home maintenance, and home organization departments; Furniture, which includes upholstery and mattress departments; Seasonal, which includes lawn and garden and other holiday departments; Apparel, Electronics, and Other department, which includes apparel, electronics and jewelry departments. The BIG YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the BIG 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 BIG 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 BIG 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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