Koppers Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a provider of treated wood products, wood preservation chemicals, and carbon compounds. Co.'s business segments are: Railroad and Utility Products and Services, which sells treated and untreated wood products, rail joint bars and services to the railroad and the utility markets; Performance Chemicals, which supplies copper-based wood preservatives, including micronized copper azole (MicroPro®), micronized pigments (MicroShades®), alkaline copper quaternary, amine copper azole and chromated copper arsenate; and Carbon Materials and Chemicals, which manufactures creosote, carbon pitch, naphthalene, and phthalic anhydride. The KOP YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the KOP 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 KOP 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 KOP 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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