Otter Tail is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. has interests in operations that include an electric utility and manufacturing and plastic pipe businesses. Co.'s segments are: Electric, which includes the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in western Minnesota, eastern North Dakota and northeastern South Dakota; Manufacturing, which includes contract machining, metal parts stamping, fabrication and painting, and production of plastic thermoformed horticultural containers and life science and industrial packaging; and Plastics, which consists of businesses producing polyvinyl chloride pipe at plants in North Dakota and Arizona. The OTTR YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the OTTR 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 OTTR 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 OTTR 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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