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Russell Global Growth Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of September 30, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   48.971
Median market cap                   0.786
Largest stock by market cap                   410.332
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.002
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   2.77
Dividend yield                   2.18
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   13.5
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   14.16%
EPS growth 5 years                   25.8

Total returns in percentages

     September        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Global Growth   -14.69   -27.44   -27.39   1.66   7.35

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.
Cisco Systems Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Roche Holding AG
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
PepsiCo Inc.
Philip Morris International Inc.
Apple Inc.
  United States
Switzerland
United States
United States
United States
Switzerland
United States
United States
United States
United States

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd.
Sciele Pharma Inc.
Indevus Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Cals Ltd.
BYD Co. Ltd.
El Ezz Steel Rebars SAE
PrivateBancorp Inc.
SanDisk Corp.
Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc.
First Calgary Petroleums Ltd.
  130.7
59.8
52.3
47.4
43.2
38.6
36.3
35.2
34.6
33.7
  China
United States
United States
India
China
Egypt
United States
United States
United States
Canada

Country data

Top 5 countries
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Canada
Switzerland

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Technology
Consumer Discretionary
Materials & Processing
Health Care
Producer Durables
      Information Technology
Industrials
Consumer Staples
Health Care
Energy








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