Wintrust Financial is a financial holding company. Co. conducts its businesses through three primary segments: community banking, specialty finance and wealth management. Through its community banking segment, Co.'s banking subsidiaries (collectively, the banks) provide community-oriented, personal and commercial banking services to customers located in the Chicago metropolitan area, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana (Co.'s market area). Through its specialty finance segment, Co. provides financing of insurance premiums for businesses and individuals; accounts receivable financing, out-sourced administrative services; and other finance businesses. The WTFC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the WTFC 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 WTFC 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 WTFC 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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