The International Securities Exchange (NYSE: ISE), in collaboration with Revere Data LLC, today announced the development and launch of the ISE-Revere Wal-Mart Supplier Index (Ticker: WMX). This unique, relationship-based index allows investors to track the overall price performance of companies that derive a significant portion of their revenues from supplying Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's leading retailer. The index value is accessible from leading market data vendors as well as on the ISE website. ISE plans to list options on the index in the coming weeks.
Wal-Mart Supplier Index (WMX)
| Bloomberg | WMX |
| ILX | WMX |
| Reuters | WMX |
| Yahoo! Finance | ^WMX |
For the thirty companies included in the ISE-Revere Wal-Mart Supplier Index, annual revenues attributable to Wal-Mart range from 74% to 16%. Among the industries represented by companies in the index are diversified consumer products, entertainment products and services, packaged consumer foods and snacks, and healthcare and pharmaceuticals. The index portfolio consists of such well-known companies as Energizer Holdings, Inc. (Ticker: ENR), General Mills, Inc. (Ticker: GIS), Mattel, Inc. (Ticker: MAT), and Playtex Products, Inc. (Ticker: PYX).
Bruce D. Goldberg, ISE's Chief Marketing Officer, said, "The markets have carefully tracked Wal-Mart's performance due to its unique position as the world's leading retailer. The ISE-Revere Wal-Mart Supplier Index provides investors with a related performance benchmark that may also be viewed as a technical indicator. We are very pleased to again have partnered with Revere to add another innovative product to ISE's index portfolio."
ISE and Revere launched the ISE-Revere Natural Gas Index (Ticker: FUM) in October 2006. Both of these new indexes respond to increased investor interest in sector-specific products that more purely reflect a market segment.
Kevin O'Brien, Chief Executive Officer of Revere Data, noted, "By applying Revere's methodology to define sectors, investors now have the means to capture movement in these supplier companies. Revere analyzes companies such as Wal-Mart to search, discover, and classify their products and services, focused lines of business and key business relationships. Through our partnership with ISE, we hope to offer investors purer vehicles to express a point of view on a particular market segment."
Using the Revere Relationships(TM) database, ISE and Revere Data ranked eligible securities for the index according to percentage of revenue derived from supplying Wal-Mart. Candidates were further screened by certain market capitalization and liquidity requirements. The table below provides the complete list of index components.
Components of ISE-Revere Wal-Mart Supplier Index (Ticker: WMX)
Symbol Component Name % Revenue from WMT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HDL Handleman Company 74.0 COT Cott Corporation ( USA ) 40.0 CHTT Chattem Inc. 34.0 CNXS CNS, Inc. 31.0 CALM Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. 30.9 DLM Del Monte Foods Company 29.0 PYX Playtex Products, Inc. 28.0 LF LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. 28.0 ICON Iconix Brand Group Inc. 27.7 CLX The Clorox Company 27.0 PRGO Perrigo Company 26.0 HELE Helen of Troy Limited 25.0 LCUT Lifetime Brands Inc. 24.0 ATVI Activision, Inc. 23.0 PBH Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc. 22.5 HAS Hasbro, Inc. 21.0 CSTR Coinstar, Inc. 20.9 TR Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. 20.8 NAVR Navarre Corporation 20.0 MAT Mattel, Inc. 19.6 CENT Central Garden & Pet Co. 19.0 SPC Spectrum Brands, Inc. 19.0 CHD Church & Dwight Co., Inc. 18.0 LNCE Lance, Inc. 18.0 ENR Energizer Holdings, Inc. 17.5 SMG The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. 17.0 PLB American Italian Pasta Company 17.0 DMND Diamond Foods, Inc. 16.5 GIS General Mills, Inc. 16.0 KTO K2 Inc. 16.0
ISE Background
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About Revere
Revere Data, LLC, is a leading provider of financial information services that help investors better understand the cornerstone of all great companies: the products and services they sell. Revere goes deep inside companies to search, discover and classify their products and services, focused lines of business, and key business relationships. The patented Revere Hierarchy(TM) classifies companies in nine times as many sectors as is commonly used by investment professionals on Wall Street, thereby delivering a more precise and deeper view of the market. Revere Relationships(TM) provides visibility into key customer, supplier, competitor and strategic partner relationships for thousands of publicly traded US companies. Revere offers a full suite of data, online research, and index services for the institutional investment community.
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