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Russell Global ex-Australia Growth Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of August 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   53.141
Median market cap                   0.957
Largest stock by market cap                   422.748
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.003
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   3.20
Dividend yield                   2.01
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   15.6
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   14.76%
EPS growth 5 years                   26.4

Total returns in percentages

     August        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Global
ex-Australia Growth
  -2.34   -14.92   -9.98   7.84   10.66

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Microsoft Corp.
International Business Machines Corp.
Nestle S.A.
Apple Inc.
Cisco Systems Inc.
Roche Holding AG
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Philip Morris International Inc.
Intel Corp.
Schlumberger Ltd.
  United States
United States
Switzerland
United States
United States
Switzerland
United States
United States
United States
United States

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Star Scientific Inc.
Corp For Financing&Promoting Technology
Wai Chun Mining Industry Group Co Ltd
Xerium Technologies Inc.
Saigon Securities Inc.
First Marblehead Corp.
NewStar Financial Inc.
Alpharma Inc.
Rei Agro Ltd.
Longs Drug Stores Corp.
  94.0
83.2
72.3
66.5
65.8
64.1
60.3
57.2
53.8
53.6
  United States
Vietnam
Hong Kong
United States
Vietnam
United States
United States
United States
India
United States

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 and Processing
Producer Durables
Energy
      Information Technology
Industrials
Energy
Consumer Staples
Health Care






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