Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund invests in futures contracts in an attempt to track the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess ReturnTM (the Index). The Index is intended to reflect the change in market value of the commodity sector. The commodities comprising the Index are Light Sweet Crude Oil, Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel, Aluminum, Gold, Corn, Wheat, Brent Crude Oil, Copper Grade A, Natural Gas, Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygen Blending Gasoline, Silver, Soybeans, Sugar and Zinc. Co. provides common units of beneficial interest (the Shares) only to certain eligible financial institutions in one or more blocks of 200,000 Shares, called a Basket. The DBC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the DBC 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 DBC 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 DBC 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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