FirstEnergy is a public utility holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the transmission, distribution and generation of electricity. Co.'s segments include: Regulated Distribution, which distributes electricity through its utility operating companies (including Ohio Edison Company, The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, The Toledo Edison Company, Pennsylvania Power Company and Jersey Central Power & Light Company); and Regulated Transmission, which provides transmission infrastructure owned and operated by the Transmission Companies and certain of Co.'s utilities to transmit electricity from generation sources to distribution facilities. The FirstEnergy YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the FirstEnergy 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 FirstEnergy 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 FE 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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