- Book value to price ratio
- 12-months forward earnings to price ratio
- Dividend yield.
Growth attribute for index construction is defined using:
- Long-term forward earnings per share (EPS) growth rate*
- Short-term forward EPS growth rate
- Current internal growth rate
- Long-term historical EPS growth trend
- Long-term historical sales per share growth trend.
*The long term forward EPS growth rate variable is not used to define the growth style characteristics of securities in the MSCI Global Small Cap Indices due to a lack of consistent availability of that variable.
