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Russell Global Value Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of October 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   57.723
Median market cap                   0.481
Largest stock by market cap                   391.627
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.002
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.11
Dividend yield                   4.65
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   9.0
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   7.31%
EPS growth 5 years                   17.4

Total returns in percentages

     October        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Global Value   -20.23   -39.26   -43.00   -4.90   3.77

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Exxon Mobil Corp.
General Electric Co.
AT&T Inc.
BP PLC
Chevron Corp.
HSBC Holdings PLC
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Johnson & Johnson
Procter & Gamble Co.
Pfizer Inc.
  United States
United States
United States
United Kingdom
United States
United Kingdom
United States
United States
United States
United States

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Wachovia Corp.
AirTran Holdings Inc.
US Airways Group Inc.
Cheniere Energy Inc.
UAL Corp.
Volkswagen AG
Prima Meat Packers Ltd.
Sanshin Electronics Co. Ltd.
National City Corp.
Nektar Therapeutics
  83.1
68.3
68.2
66.2
65.6
62.2
61.0
58.4
55.0
54.0
  United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
Germany
Japan
Japan
United States
United States

Country data

Top 5 countries
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Germany

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Financial Services
Energy
Utilities
Consumer Discretionary
Producer Durables
      Financials
Energy
Consumer Discretionary
Industrials
Health Care






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