Thirty-six stocks were added to the consumer discretionary sector of the Russell 2000 in this year's reconstitution of the small-cap index, while 50 were removed.
The following 36 companies were added to the Russell 2000: American Apparel Inc., America's Car-Mart Inc., Angelica Corp., Aristotle Corp., Bidz.com Inc., Chindex International Inc., Dover Motorsports Inc., Drugstore.com Inc., Einstein Noah Restaurant Group Inc., Elixir Gaming Technologies Inc., Fuqi International Inc., Global Traffic Network Inc., ICF International Inc., Learning Tree International Inc., Luby's Inc., Outdoor Channel Holdings Inc., PC Mall Inc. PRG-Schultz International Inc., Parkervision Inc., Princeton Review Inc., Rex Stores Corp., Ricks Cabaret International Inc. and Syms Corp.
Cheesecake Factory Inc., Chico's FAS Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., Coldwater Creek Inc., Crocs Inc., Dillard's Inc., Harte Hanks Inc., Idearc Inc., McClatchy Co., NutriSystem Inc., Pool Corp., R.H. Donnelley Corp. and Tractor Supply Co. were moved to the small-stock Russell 2000 and removed from the large-stock Russell 1000.
The following 38 companies were removed: A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts, Ambassadors International Inc., Barrett Business Services Inc., Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc., Benihana Inc., Bon-Ton Stores Inc., Books-a-Million Inc., CPI Corp., Carmike Cinemas Inc., Carrols Restaurant Group Inc., Chipotle Mexican Grill Class B shares, Diamond Management & Technology Consultants Inc., Emmis Communications Corp., Gander Mountain Co., Glu Mobil Inc., Harris Interactive Inc., Heelys Inc., iPass Inc., Jamba Inc., Lakes Entertainment Inc., Lifetime Brands Inc., Lithia Motors Inc., Lo-Jack Corp., LodgeNet Interactive Corp., MTR Gaming Group Inc., Magna Entertainment Corp., McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants Inc., Morton's Restaurant Group Inc., Multimedia Games Inc., Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc., Premier Exhibitions Inc., Radio One Inc., Revlon Inc., Salem Communications Corp., Select Comfort Corp., Source Interlink Cos. Inc., Spanish Broadcasting System Inc., Sturm Ruger & Co. Inc., Travelzoo Inc., Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., ValueVision Media Inc. and West Marine Inc.
Central European Distribution Corp., DeVry Inc., FTI Consulting Inc., IHS Inc., LKQ Corp., Priceline.com Inc., Sohu.com Inc. and Strayer Education Inc. were moved to the Russell 1000 and removed from the Russell 2000.
Tacoma, Wash.-based Russell Investments realigns the Russell 3000 index once per year, tracking what it maintains is 99 percent of the U.S. equity market. That index is then broken down to 26 smaller indexes, including the widely watched Russell 1000 index of large capitalization stocks.
The makeup of the Russell indexes for the next 12 months was finalized after the closing bell Friday.
(This version corrects the number of stocks in the sector removed from the Russell 2000 to 50.)