Compass Minerals International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a provider of minerals focused on delivering where and when it matters. Co. has two reportable segments: Salt and Plant Nutrition. Through its Salt segment, Co. produces, markets and sells salt (sodium chloride) and magnesium chloride in North America and sodium chloride in the U.K. Co.'s Salt products include rock salt, mechanically-evaporated salt, solar-evaporated salt, brine magnesium chloride and flake magnesium chloride. Co.'s Plant Nutrition segment includes the production and sales of sulfate of potash (SOP). Co.'s SOP is sold in various grades under its Protassium+ brand. The CMP YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the CMP 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 CMP 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 CMP 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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