Cabot is a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company. Co.'s principal products are reinforcing and specialty carbons, specialty compounds, conductive carbons, carbon nanotubes, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, and aerogel. Co.'s business is organized into two reportable segments: Reinforcement Materials, which includes reinforcing carbons and engineered elastomer composites solutions; and Performance Chemicals, which combines its specialty carbons, battery materials, fumed metal oxides and aerogel product lines into its Performance Additives business as well as combines its specialty compounds and inkjet product lines into its Formulated Solutions business. The CBT YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the CBT 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 CBT 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 CBT 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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