iShares Silver Trust is a grantor trust. Co. is engaged in owning silver transferred to it in exchange for shares issued by Co. (Shares). The sponsor of Co. is iShares Delaware Trust Sponsor LLC (the Sponsor). The trustee of Co. is The Bank of New York Mellon and the custodian of Co. is JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. (the Custodian). The activities of the Trust are limited to issuing Baskets in exchange for the silver deposited with the Custodian as consideration, selling silver as necessary to cover the Sponsor's fee, Co. expenses not assumed by the Sponsor and other liabilities, and delivering silver in exchange for Baskets surrendered for redemption. The SLV stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the SLV stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2017 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 SLV annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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