This brings the year-to-date return to 3.50% versus 5.19% for the same period last year.
This professional information solutions provider has amassed a year-to-date return of 32%, demonstrating its strong fundamentals.
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The stock has performed reasonably well so far this year, generating a healthy year-to-date return of roughly 35%.
Fidelity Leveraged Company Stock's year-to-date return of 24.8% puts it in the top 2% of mid-cap blend funds.
Today the year-to-date return on corporate bonds according to Barclays Capital is down by a half a percentage point.
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Barely two months into 2013, the year-to-date return stands at 8.38%.
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The Oz Master Fund posted a 0.69% return in April and a year-to-date return of 4.08%, according to the SEC filing Och-Ziff Capital Management made on Tuesday.
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According to NAREIT, the U.S. equity REIT sector boasts an overall year-to-date total return of 23.57 percent (through August 1), outperforming the average equity REIT sector by around 36 percent.
Throwing dividends into the calculation boosts the year-to-date total return to a whopping 2.25%, which annualizes to 3.83%.
The health care sector has the highest overall average dividend yield performance as the sector boasts a current yield of 4.59 percent and year-to-date total return performance of 17.4 percent.
As for Exelon, it pays a higher dividend yield of 4.8%, with its stock producing year-to-date a total return of 9%.
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Year-to-date, the total return on EMLC is 5.46% versus IEI gains of 6.58%.
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Year-to-date, SLB has had a total return of -0.5%, but in the last three months the stock has been up about 8.5%.
The market, already ahead 10 percent year-to-date, could reach a mid-teens rate of return in 2013.
Using the classic Rule of 72, even the year-to-date, annualized stock market return of 3.83% implies it will take 19 years for a portfolio invested 100% in equities to double in value.
Low real interest rates push investors out of safer Treasuries, forcing them on the hunt for return (year-to-date, gold is up 22.4%).
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The stock hit a 19-month high on Tuesday, and year to date it has already tripled the return of the broad Nasdaq index.
Historically, Rackspace return on capital has run in the 30%s although, since the purchase of their new corporate headquarters, the fully-burdened return on capital has been increasing from 9% in 2009 to 14% year to date.
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