Sprott Physical Gold Trust is a closed-end mutual fund trust. The investment objective of Co. is to seek to provide a secure, convenient and exchange-traded investment alternative for investors interested in holding physical gold bullion without the inconvenience that is typical of a direct investment in physical gold bullion. As part of its investment strategy, Co. invests and holds all of its assets in physical gold bullion. Co. invests and intends to continue to invest primarily in long-term holdings of unencumbered, fully allocated, physical gold bullion and does not speculate with regard to short-term changes in gold prices. The PHYS stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the PHYS stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2016 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 PHYS annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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