MBIA is a holding company. Co.'s primary business is to provide financial guarantee insurance to the U.S.' public finance markets through its indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary, National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation (National). Co. has three operating segments: U.S. public finance insurance, which is managed through National and provides unconditional and irrevocable guarantees of the payment of the principal of, and interest or other amounts owing on, U.S. public finance insured obligations when due; corporate, which consists of general corporate activities; and international and structured finance insurance, which insures the investment contracts written by Co. The MBI YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the MBI 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 MBI 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 MBI 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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