West Pharmaceutical Services is a manufacturer in the design and production of integrated containment and delivery systems for injectable drugs and healthcare products. Co.'s business operations are organized into two reportable segments: Proprietary Products, which provides proprietary packaging, containment and drug delivery products, along with analytical lab services and other integrated services and solutions, mainly to biologic, generic and pharmaceutical drug customers; and Contract-Manufactured Products, which serves as an integrated business, focused on the design, manufacture, and automated assembly of devices, mainly for pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device customers. The WST YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the WST 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 WST 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 WST 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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