U.S. Silica Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a global performance materials company and a producer of commercial silica used in the oil and gas industry and in a range of industrial applications. Co. is also engaged in the production of industrial minerals, including diatomaceous earth, clay (calcium bentonite and calcium montmorillonite) and perlite. Co.'s segments are: Oil and Gas Proppants, which serves the oil and gas recovery market by providing and delivering fracturing sand; and Industrial and Specialty Products, provides building and construction products, fillers and extenders, filtration, glassmaking, absorbents, foundry, and sports and recreation. The SLCA YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the SLCA 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 SLCA 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 SLCA 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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