Mastercard is a technology company that connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, digital partners, businesses and other organizations by enabling electronic payments instead of cash and checks. Co.'s payment products and applications include: consumer payment products, which includes consumer credit, consumer debit and prepaid; and new payment flows, which includes disbursements and remittances, commercial point of sale, business-to-business accounts payable and consumer bill payments. Co.'s services include: cyber and intelligence solutions, which prevents, detects and responds to fraud and cyber-attacks; data and services solutions; and processing and gateway. The MA YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the MA 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 MA 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 MA 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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