Escalade and its wholly-owned subsidiaries are engaged in the manufacture and sale of sporting goods products. Co. operates in a business segment: Sporting Goods (Escalade Sports). Escalade Sports manufactures, imports, and distributes sporting goods brands in basketball goals, archery, indoor and outdoor game recreation and fitness products through sporting goods retailers, dealers, on-line retailers, department stores and mass merchants. Co. is engaged in table tennis tables, residential in-ground basketball goals and in archery bows. Escalade Sports manufactures in the U.S. and Mexico and imports product from Asia, where Co. utilizes a number of contract manufacturers. The ESCA YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the ESCA 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 ESCA 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 ESCA 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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