Waste Management is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a provider of environmental solutions. Co.'s services include: Collection, which involves picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials to a transfer station, material recovery facility or disposal site; Landfill, which includes excavation, construction of liners, continuous spreading and compacting of waste, covering of waste with earth or other material and constructing final capping of the landfill; Transfer, in which the solid waste is transported by transfer trucks or by rail to disposal sites; and Recycling, which includes materials processing, recycling commodities and recycling brokerage services. The WM YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the WM 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 WM 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 WM 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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