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Russell Global ex-U.S. Small Cap Growth Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of October 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   0.819
Median market cap                   0.292
Largest stock by market cap                   5.828
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.001
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.60
Dividend yield                   3.52
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   9.0
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   16.21%
EPS growth 5 years                   27.0

Total returns in percentages

     October        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Global ex-U.S. Small Cap Growth   -30.07   -57.58   -61.11   -10.79   0.74

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co. Inc.
Nitori Co. Ltd.
Massmart Holdings Ltd.
SINA Corp.
Zentiva N.V.
New Oriental Education & Technology Grp
IG Group Holdings PLC
Icon PLC (ADS)
Galenica AG
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp.
  Japan
Japan
South Africa
China
Netherlands
China
United Kingdom
Ireland
Switzerland
Japan

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Prima Meat Packers Ltd.
EastPharma Ltd.
Revus Energy ASA
Telemig Celular Participacoes SA
Saizeriya Co. Ltd.
kabu.com Securities Co. Ltd.
Seiwa Chuo Holdings Corporation
EPS Co. Ltd.
Midland Holdings Ltd.
Point Inc.
  61.0
44.7
40.0
39.4
37.8
37.4
36.7
32.4
29.8
29.3
  Japan
United Kingdom
Norway
Brazil
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Hong Kong
Japan

Country data

Top 5 countries
Japan
United Kingdom
Canada
India
Taiwan

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Producer Durables
Consumer Discretionary
Materials & Processing
Financial Services
Technology
      Industrials
Consumer Discretionary
Information Technology
Materials
Financials








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