W. P. Carey is an internally-managed diversified real estate investment trust (REIT). Co. owns commercial real estate, net leased to companies located primarily in the U.S. and Northern and Western Europe on a long-term basis. Co.'s real estate portfolio is comprised primarily of single-tenant industrial, warehouse, office, retail, and self-storage facilities. Co. also manages the portfolios of certain non-traded investment programs through its investment management business. The WPC stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the WPC 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 WPC annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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