Matson is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a provider of ocean transportation and logistics services. Co. consists of two segments, Ocean Transportation and Logistics. In its Ocean Transportation segment, Co. provides a vital lifeline of ocean freight transportation services to the domestic non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Alaska and Guam, and to other island economies in Micronesia through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Matson Navigation Company, Inc. (MatNav). In its Logistics segment, Matson Logistics, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of MatNav, is an asset-light business that provides a variety of logistics services to its customers. The MATX YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the MATX 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 MATX 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 MATX 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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