Spire is the holding company for Spire Missouri Inc. (Spire Missouri), Spire Alabama Inc. (Spire Alabama), other gas utilities, and gas-related businesses. Co. has two primary business segments: Gas Utility and Gas Marketing. The Gas Utility segment includes: Spire Missouri, which is a public utility engaged in the purchase, retail distribution and sale of natural gas, with offices located in Missouri; and Spire Alabama, which is a public utility engaged in the purchase, retail distribution and sale of natural gas principally in central and northern Alabama. The Gas Marketing segment includes Co.'s wholly owned subsidiary, Spire Marketing Inc., which provides natural gas marketing services. The SR YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the SR 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 SR 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 SR 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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