Caterpillar is a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Co.'s Construction Industries segment supports customers using machinery in infrastructure, forestry and building construction. Co.'s Resource Industries segment supports customers using machinery in mining and heavy construction and quarry and aggregates. Co.'s Energy and Transportation segment supports customers in oil and gas, power generation, marine, rail and industrial applications, including Co.'s machines. Co. also provides financing and related services through its Financial Products segment. The Caterpillar YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the Caterpillar 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 Caterpillar 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 CAT 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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