Article: Standard & Poor's Announces Semi-Annual Reconstitution of Standard & Poor's/Barra Growth and Value Indices.

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard & Poor's will make its semi-annual changes to the S&P 500/Barra Growth, S&P 500/Barra Value, S&P MidCap 400/Barra Growth, S&P MidCap 400/Barra Value, S&P SmallCap 600/Barra Growth and S&P SmallCap 600/Barra Value indices after the close of trading on Friday, December 20, 2002.

With respect to categorization of a stock as either "growth" or "value," the discriminating attribute is its book-to-price ratio. Using this metric, each U.S. index is split into two mutually exclusive groups, each of which comprises roughly half of the index's total market capitalization. Each S&P/Barra Value Index contains stocks ...

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