First Data engages in commerce-enabling technology and solutions for merchants, financial institutions, and card issuers. Co.'s segments include: Global Business Solutions, which provides businesses with a range of solutions at the point of sale, including merchant acquiring, eCommerce, mobile commerce, and other business solutions; Global Financial Solutions, which provides credit card and loan account processing, commercial payments, customer communications, plastics solutions, customer service, and other products to support issuers; and Network and Security Solutions, which provides a range of network solutions and security, risk and fraud management solutions to its clients. The FDC average annual return since 2015 is shown above.
The Average Annual Return on the FDC average annual return since 2015 page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annualized return over the past ten years (or specified start date) for a given investment
(up to the end of prior trading session recorded). Arguably, choosing ten years for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand provides a sufficiently long window
to capture long-term trends.
Thus, researching Average Annual Returns is good practice for investors — whether FDC average annual return since 2015 or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annualized 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 FDC average annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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