CoStar Group, Inc. is a provider of online real estate marketplaces, information, and analytics in the property markets. It conducts expansive, ongoing research to produce and maintain a comprehensive database of real estate information. It manages its business in two segments: North America, which includes the U.S. and Canada, and International, which primarily includes Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Its portfolio of information, analytics and online marketplaces is branded and marketed to its customers and marketplace end users under the primary brands of CoStar, LoopNet, Apartments.com, Homes.com, OnTheMarket, Ten-X, STR, Land.com and BizBuySell. The CSGP YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the CSGP 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 CSGP 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 CSGP 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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