Weatherford International is a multinational energy services company. Co. is engaged in providing equipment and services used in the drilling, evaluation, completion, production and intervention of oil, geothermal and natural gas wells. Co. provides its services and technologies in relation to the well life cycle and has three segments: Drilling and Evaluation, which provides services including managed pressure drilling, drilling services, wireline and drilling fluids; Well Construction and Completions, which provides products and services for well integrity assurance across the life cycle of the well; and Production and Intervention, which provides production optimization technologies. The WFRD YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the WFRD 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 WFRD 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 WFRD 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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