Bio-Rad Laboratories is a manufacturer and distributor of its own life science research and clinical diagnostics products. Co. manufactures and supplies the life science research, healthcare, analytical chemistry and other markets with a range of products and systems used to separate chemical and biological materials and to identify, analyze and purify their components. Co. operates in two segments: Life Science, which develops, manufactures and markets a portfolio of various products; and Clinical Diagnostics, which designs, manufactures, markets and supports test systems, informatics systems, test kits and quality controls that serve clinical laboratories in the diagnostics market. The BIO YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the BIO 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 BIO 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 BIO 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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