The above table (click on image for full-screen view) represents a Highly Defensive PerformIdex ETF proposal comprised of companies based in either the US or Canada with market caps greater than $5 billion from the following industry groups: (A) Grocery Stores (2); (B) Consumer Staples (11) – Non-Food/Beverage (2), Processed & Packaged Foods (4), Tobacco (1), Alcoholic Beverages (2), Non-Alcoholic Beverages (2); (C) Health Benefit Providers (3); (D) Consumer Healthcare (3); (E) Utilities (3); (F) Telecom Services (2); (G) Ag/Metal Commodities (4); (H) At-Home Entertainment (3); (I) Aerospace/Defense (2); and (J) Mass Merchants/Discount Retailers (2). The 25 active component stocks are rebalanced each quarter based on the following rating formula: (a) trailing 52-week stock price performance + (b) dividend yield + (c) percentage of total market cap represented by each company. The Highly Defensive PerformIdex has a below-market average beta of 0.68, dividend yield of 2.1%, average market cap over $79 billion, and trailing 52-week stock price performance of 23.4% (all financial data was last updated on 5/10/08).
$67.01 (08/08/08)
