Valhi is a holding company. Co. operates through its subsidiaries, including NL Industries, Inc., Kronos Worldwide, Inc., CompX International Inc., Basic Management, Inc. (BMI) and The LandWell Company (LandWell). Co. has three reportable operating segments: Chemicals, in which Kronos Worldwide, Inc. produces and markets titanium dioxide pigments; Component Products, in which CompX International Inc. manufactures security products; and Real Estate Management and Development, in which BMI provides utility services and owns real property in Henderson, NV and LandWell is engaged in activities to develop certain land holdings for commercial, industrial and residential purposes in Henderson, NV. The VHI YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the VHI 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 VHI 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 VHI 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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