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Russell Global Small Cap Growth Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of October 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   0.872
Median market cap                   0.306
Largest stock by market cap                   5.828
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.001
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.83
Dividend yield                   2.42
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   10.6
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   17.35%
EPS growth 5 years                   24.8

Total returns in percentages

     October        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Global Small Cap Growth   -26.93   -50.25   -54.06   -8.99   0.11

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Myriad Genetics Inc.
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co. Inc.
Comstock Resources Inc.
Waste Connections Inc.
OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc.
ITC Holdings Corp.
STERIS Corp.
United Therapeutics Corp.
Nitori Co. Ltd.
  United States
United States
Japan
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
Japan

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
AirTran Holdings Inc.
Cheniere Energy Inc.
UAL Corp.
Prima Meat Packers Ltd.
Nektar Therapeutics
ICO Global Communications Holdings Ltd.
EastPharma Ltd.
Spartan Motors Inc.
Revus Energy ASA
Telemig Celular Participacoes SA
  68.3
66.2
65.6
61.0
54.0
50.5
44.7
44.3
40.0
39.4
  United States
United States
United States
Japan
United States
United States
United Kingdom
United States
Norway
Brazil

Country data

Top 5 countries
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Canada
India

Sectors — Largest five by weight

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








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