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Russell Developed ex-Japan Growth Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of September 30, 2009

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   53.216
Median market cap                   0.876
Largest stock by market cap                   334.797
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   2.94
Dividend yield                   2.22
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   17.1
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   10.80%
EPS growth 5 years                   17.2

The smallest company in each index has been removed from the public website to avoid any confusion. The smallest company could distort the actual distribution in the corresponding index due to corporate action methodology. Use the $wtd average market capitalization for a true measure of the capitalization distribution.

Total returns in percentages

 September        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
5.09   32.81   1.30   -1.04   4.96

For daily total return details for all Russell indexes, view this page.

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Microsoft Corp.
Apple Inc.
International Business Machines Corp.
Nestle SA
Cisco Systems Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
Google Inc.
Roche Holding AG-Reg
Telefonica SA
Procter & Gamble Co.
  United States
United States
United States
Switzerland
United States
United States
United States
Switzerland
Spain
United States

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Discovery Laboratories Inc.
Toreador Resources Corp.
Aspect Medical Systems
Perot Systems Corp.
Norwegian Air Shuttle AS
Facet Biotech Corp
Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
VIVUS Inc.
CAT Oil AG
Cytokinetics Inc.
  172.0
97.8
86.3
78.4
74.8
72.2
69.9
68.8
67.8
66.9
  United States
United States
United States
United States
Norway
United States
United States
United States
Austria
United States

Country data

Top 5 countries
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Switzerland
Australia

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Technology
Health Care
Consumer Staples
Financial Services
Consumer Discretionary
      Information Technology
Consumer Staples
Health Care
Financials
Industrials






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