Williams-Sonoma is a retailer of products for the home. Co. has the following merchandise strategies: Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, West Elm, Williams Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation and Mark and Graham, which sell its products through its e-commerce websites, direct-mail catalogs and retail stores. Co. operates in several states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia and the U.K. Co. also has multi-year franchise agreements with third parties in the Middle East, the Philippines, Mexico, South Korea and India that operate 139 franchised locations as well as e-commerce websites in certain locations. The WSM YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the WSM 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 WSM 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 WSM 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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