Oil-Dri Corp of America is engaged in developing, manufacturing and/or marketing sorbent products. Co.'s sorbent products are produced from hydrated aluminosilicate minerals, consisting of calcium bentonite, attapulgite and diatomaceous shale, which it refers to collectively as its clay, its minerals, or Fuller's Earth. Co. surfaces mine its clay on leased or owned land near its manufacturing facilities in Mississippi, Georgia, Illinois and California. Co. produces both absorbent and adsorbent products from its clay. Co. also sells nonclay-based products, such as its Oil-Dri synthetic sorbents used for automotive, industrial and marine cleanup as well as plastic cat litter box liners. The ODC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the ODC 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 ODC 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 ODC 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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