National Storage Affiliates Trust is an integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust focused on the self storage sector. Through its controlling interest as the sole general partner of NSA OP, LP (its operating partnership), Co. is focused on the ownership, operation, and acquisition of self storage properties predominantly located within metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. Co. also owns certain of its self storage properties through other consolidated limited partnership subsidiaries of its operating partnership. The NSA YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the NSA 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 NSA 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 NSA 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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