IDEXX Laboratories develops, manufactures, and distributes products and provides services for the companion animal veterinary, livestock and poultry, dairy and water testing industries. Co.'s segments are: Companion Animal Group, which provides diagnostic and information management-based products and services for the companion animal veterinary industry; Water quality products, which provides testing solutions for detection and quantification of various microbiological parameters in water; and Livestock, Poultry and Dairy, which provides diagnostic tests, services and related instrumentation that are used to manage the health status of livestock and poultry. The IDXX YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the IDXX 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 IDXX 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 IDXX 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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