The Charles Schwab is a savings and loan holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. engages in wealth management, securities brokerage, banking, asset management, custody, and financial advisory services. Co.'s two segments are: Investor Services, which provides retail brokerage, investment advisory, and banking and trust services to individual investors, and retirement plan services, as well as other corporate brokerage services to businesses; and Advisor Services, which provides custodial, trading, banking and trust, and support services, as well as retirement business services, to independent registered investment advisors, independent retirement advisors, and recordkeepers. The SCHW YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the SCHW 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 SCHW 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 SCHW 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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