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PDT YTD return is presented with the assumption of reinvestments of any dividends on ex-date. |
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Compare PDT YTD return (see YTD Return Meaning) versus benchmarks: YTD Return S&P YTD Return Dow YTD Return Nasdaq 100 YTD Return Russell 2000 YTD Return Gold YTD Return 10 Year Treasury YTD Return By Sector |
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| About John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund |
| John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to provide high current income, consistent with modest growth of capital. The Fund pursues its objective by investing in a portfolio comprised primarily of dividend paying preferred securities and common equity securities. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in dividend paying securities. The PDT YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the PDT 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 PDT 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 PDT 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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| John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (PDT) is categorized under the Financials sector; to help you further research YTD return performance across stocks, below are some other companies in the same sector:
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