American Tower is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a real estate investment trusts and an independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate. Co.'s primary business is the leasing of space on communications sites to wireless service providers, radio and television broadcast companies, wireless data providers, government agencies and municipalities and tenants in several other industries. Co. also provides tower-related services, including site application, zoning and permitting and structural analysis, which primarily support Co.'s site leasing business, including the addition of new tenants and equipment on its sites. The AMT stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the AMT stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2018 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the AMT annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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