Overseas Shipholding Group owns and operates a fleet of oceangoing vessels engaged in the transportation of crude oil and petroleum products in the U.S. Flag trade. Co.'s active vessel fleet, of which includes U.S. Flag vessels, consists of crude oil tankers doing business in Alaska, conventional Articulated Tug Barges (ATBs), lightering ATBs, shuttle tankers, Medium Range (MR) tankers, and non-Jones Act MR tankers that participate in the U.S. Maritime Security Program. Co. also owns and operates a Marshall Islands flagged MR tanker which trades internationally. Under the Jones Act, shipping between U.S. ports is reserved for U.S. Flag vessels that satisfy Jones Act requirements. The OSG YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the OSG 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 OSG 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 OSG 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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