Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings is a global life sciences company that provides vital information to help doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and patients make decisions. Co. reports its business in two segments, LabCorp Diagnostics (Dx) and Labcorp Drug Development (DD). Dx is an independent clinical laboratory business. Co. provides a menu of frequently requested primary testing and specialty testing through a network of primary and specialty laboratories across the U.S. DD provides end-to-end drug development, medical device and companion diagnostic development solutions from early-stage research to clinical development and commercial market access. The LH YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the LH 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 LH 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 LH 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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