CAI International is a transportation finance company. Co. leases equipment, primarily intermodal shipping containers, to its customers. Co. also manages equipment for third-party investors. In operating its fleet, Co. leases, re-leases and disposes of equipment and contract for the repair, repositioning and storage of equipment. Co. operates in the worldwide intermodal freight container leasing industry. Intermodal freight containers, or containers, are larger, standardized steel boxes used to transport cargo by a number of means, including ship, truck and rail. Container shipping lines use containers as the primary means for packaging and transporting freight internationally. The CAI YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the CAI 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 CAI 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 CAI 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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