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Russell Global ex-Canada Growth Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of October 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   45.176
Median market cap                   0.571
Largest stock by market cap                   391.627
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.001
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   2.28
Dividend yield                   2.61
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   11.1
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   12.85%
EPS growth 5 years                   25.3



Total returns in percentages

     October        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Global
ex-Canada Growth
  -20.41   -42.38   -45.23   -5.23   1.19

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Microsoft Corp.
Nestle S.A.
International Business Machines Corp.
Roche Holding AG
Cisco Systems Inc.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Apple Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Philip Morris International Inc.
Abbott Laboratories
  United States
Switzerland
United States
Switzerland
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
AirTran Holdings Inc.
Cheniere Energy Inc.
UAL Corp.
Volkswagen AG
Prima Meat Packers Ltd.
Nektar Therapeutics
ICO Global Communications Holdings Ltd.
Delta Air Lines Inc.
EastPharma Ltd.
Spartan Motors Inc.
  68.3
66.2
65.6
62.2
61.0
54.0
50.5
47.4
44.7
44.3
  United States
United States
United States
Germany
Japan
United States
United States
United States
United Kingdom
United States

Country data

Top 5 countries
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Switzerland
China

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Technology
Producer Durables
Health Care
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
      Information Technology
Consumer Staples
Industrials
Health Care
Consumer Discretionary








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