Big Lots, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a discount retailer. Co. manages its business on the basis of one segment: discount retailing. Co. has the following merchandising categories: Furniture, which includes upholstery, mattress, case goods, and ready-to-assemble departments; Seasonal, which includes lawn and garden, summer, Christmas, and other holiday departments; Soft Home, which includes fashion bedding, utility bedding, bath, window, decorative textile, home organization, area rugs, home decor, and frames departments; Food; Consumables; Hard Home; and Electronics, Toys, and Accessories. The BIG stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the BIG stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2014 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 BIG annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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