FutureFuel, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, FutureFuel Chemical Company, manufactures chemical products, bio-based fuel products, and bio-based specialty chemical products. Co.'s business is managed in two segments: chemicals and biofuels. Co.'s chemicals segment manufactures chemical products that are sold to third party customers, and comprises two components: custom manufacturing (manufacturing chemicals for specific customers) and performance chemicals (multi-customer specialty chemicals). Co.'s biofuels segment primarily produces and sells biodiesel. In addition, Co. sells petrodiesel in blends with its biodiesel and, from time to time, with no biodiesel added. The FF YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the FF 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 FF 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 FF 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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