Post Holdings is a consumer packaged goods holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. operates in four segments: Post Consumer Brands, which manufactures, markets and sells a portfolio of branded and private label packaged foods products in the ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal, hot cereal and peanut and nut butter categories; Weetabix, which markets and distributes branded and private label RTE cereal products; Foodservice, which produces and distributes egg and potato products in the foodservice and food ingredient channels; and Refrigerated Retail, which produces and distributes side dishes, eggs and egg products, sausage, cheese and other dairy and refrigerated products to retail customers. The POST YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the POST 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 POST 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 POST 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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