Scotts Miracle-Gro is engaged in the manufacturing, marketing and sale of products for lawn and garden care and indoor and hydroponic gardening. Co. divides its business into the following reportable segments: U.S. Consumer, Hawthorne, and Other. U.S. Consumer consists of Co.'s consumer lawn and garden business in the U.S. Hawthorne consists of Co.'s indoor and hydroponic gardening business. Other primarily consists of Co.'s consumer lawn and garden business outside the U.S. Co. manufactures, markets and sells lawn and garden products in the following categories: lawn care, gardening and landscape, hydroponic hardware and growing environments, lighting, controls, and marketing agreement. The SMG YTD return is shown above.
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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.
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