Portland General Electric is an electric utility, engaged in the generation, wholesale purchase, transmission, distribution and retail sale of electricity in the state of Oregon. Co. participates in the wholesale market through the purchase and sale of electricity and natural gas. Co.'s generating resources consist of thermal plants (natural gas- and coal-fired), wind farms and hydroelectric facilities. Co. owns or has contractual rights associated with transmission lines that deliver electricity from its generation facilities to its distribution system in its service territory and also to the Western Interconnection. The POR YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the POR 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 POR 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 POR 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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