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Russell Developed Europe ex-UK Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of July 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   57.711
Median market cap                   1.255
Largest stock by market cap                   185.014
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.110
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.68
Dividend yield                   3.94
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   10.6
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   8.05%
EPS growth 5 years                   26.2

Total returns in percentages

     July        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr       10 yr  
Russell Developed Europe ex-UK   -2.59   -14.31   -11.47   13.50   18.49   6.46

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
BNP Paribas S.A.
Nestle S.A.
Total S.A.
Novartis AG
Roche Holding AG
E.ON AG
Banco Santander S.A. (Spain)
Siemens AG
Telefonica S.A.
Nokia Corp.
  France
Switzerland
France
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Spain
Germany
Spain
Finland


Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Speedel Holding AG
Epcos AG
Risanamento SpA
SAS AB
Union Fenosa S.A.
Genmab A/S
DOF Subsea ASA
Odfjell Invest Ltd.
Nordicom A/S
ARQUES Industries AG
  92.2
68.7
53.4
44.1
42.6
40.6
40.3
35.7
31.5
30.6
  Switzerland
Germany
Italy
Sweden
Spain
Denmark
Norway
Norway
Denmark
Germany

Country data

Top 5 countries
France
Germany
Switzerland
Spain
Italy

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Financial Services
Materials and Processing
Consumer Discretionary
Utilities
Energy
      Financials
Industrials
Health Care
Consumer Discretionary
Materials






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