Before starting this project, I had no idea whatsoever about investing money in companies. Slowly as I started working on this project I started to know more and more about investments and how useful they are to help you earn money with out having to work. As I was looking through the stocks of many different companies I saw some companies with a high YTD rate. Some were at 211% and some were at -11%. I thought that the YTD rate was a another name for annual rate of return or dividend rate, but I wasn't 100% sure. So I checked Investopedia, and here's what I found. YTD isn't the annual rate of return. Instead, it refers to the period of growth or decay of the company's stock starting from the first day of the calendar or fiscal year, and goes up to the current date.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/y/ytd.asp
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Thank you for explaining this through your post. At first, I also thought that YTD and annual rate of return were the same thing. Now I realize that they have different meanings ever though they have some similarity.
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