Gladstone Land is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is an externally-managed, agricultural real estate investment trust that is engaged in the business of owning and leasing farmland. Co.'s farmland is concentrated in locations where farmers are able to grow either fresh produce annual row crops, which are typically planted and harvested annually, or certain permanent crops. To a much lesser extent, Co. also owns farms that grow certain commodity crops. In addition, Co. owns several farm-related facilities that are necessary to the farming operations on the underlying farmland, such as cooling facilities, packinghouses, processing facilities, and various storage facilities. The LAND YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the LAND 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 LAND 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 LAND 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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