Willis Lease Finance is a lessor and servicer of commercial aircraft and aircraft engines. Co. separates its business into the following reportable segments: Leasing and Related Operations, which leases aircraft and aircraft engines and provides related services to a group of commercial aircraft operators and maintenance, repair and overhaul organizations worldwide; and Spare Parts Sales, which primarily engages in the sale of aircraft engine parts and materials through the acquisition or consignment of engines from third parties or from the leasing portfolio through its wholly owned subsidiary, Willis Aeronautical Services, Inc. The WLFC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the WLFC 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 WLFC 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 WLFC 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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