Stifel Financial is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in retail brokerage; securities trading; investment banking; investment advisory; retail, consumer, and commercial banking; and related financial services. Co.'s segments are: Global Wealth Management, which provides securities transaction, brokerage, and investment services to its clients through the consolidated Stifel branch system; Institutional Group, which includes research, equity and fixed income institutional sales and trading, investment banking, public finance, and syndicate; and Other, which includes interest income from stock borrow activities and processing of securities transactions. The SF YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the SF 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 SF 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 SF 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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