Mercer International is a global forest products company with two reportable operating segments being pulp and wood products. Co.'s pulp segment consists of the manufacture, sale and distribution of pulp, electricity and chemicals at Co.'s pulp mills. In addition, all of Co.'s mills generate and sell an amount of surplus green energy. Co.'s solid wood products segment consists of the manufacture, sale and distribution of lumber, manufactured products (including cross-laminated timber and finger joint lumber), wood pallets, electricity, biofuels and wood residuals from our sawmills and other facilities located in Germany and the US. The MERC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the MERC 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 MERC 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 MERC 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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