Discover Financial Services is a bank holding company as well as a financial holding company. Co. provides digital banking products and services and payment services through its subsidiaries. Co. manages its business activities in two segments: Digital Banking, which includes consumer banking and lending products, mainly Discover-branded credit cards issued to individuals on the Discover Network and other consumer banking products and services, including private student loans; and Payment Services, which includes the PULSE network, Diners Club International and its Network Partners business that provides payment transaction processing and settlement services on the Discover Global Network. The DFS YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the DFS 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 DFS 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 DFS 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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