Crown Castle is a real estate investment trust. Co. owns, operates and leases shared communications infrastructure that is geographically dispersed throughout the U.S., including the towers and other structures, such as rooftops (collectively, towers), and the route miles of fiber primarily supporting small cell networks (small cells) and fiber solutions. Co. refers to its towers, fiber and small cells assets collectively as communications infrastructure. Co.'s primary business is providing access, including space or capacity, to its shared communications infrastructure via long-term contracts in various forms, including lease, license, sublease and service agreements. The CCI YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the CCI 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 CCI 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 CCI 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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