Hercules Offshore is a holding company. Co. is a provider of shallow-water drilling and marine services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry. As of Feb 19 2015, Co. conducted its businesses through the following segments: Domestic Offshore, which consisted of 24 jackup rigs in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico; International Offshore, which consisted of nine jackup rigs outside of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico; and International Liftboats, which included 24 liftboats in West Africa and in the Middles East region. Co.'s fleet provides services such as oil and gas exploration and development drilling, well service, platform inspection, maintenance, and decommissioning operations. The HERO YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the HERO 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 HERO 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 HERO 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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