UltraShort Telecommunications

ProShares UltraShort Telecommunications seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to twice (200%) the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Select Telecommunications IndexSM.

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Index/Benchmark Summary

The Dow Jones U.S. Select Telecommunications IndexSM measures providers of fixed-line and mobile telephone services. Fixed-line includes regional and long-distance carriers. Mobile includes cellular, satellite and paging services.

As of 12/31/11

Fundamentals

Total Number
of Companies
Price/Earnings
Ratio
Price/Book
Ratio
Dividend Yield 1
(%)
Average
Index Market
Capitalization
 29 15.80  1.80 3.73 $13.18 billion  

1 = Derivative contracts are priced to reflect the underlying index yield and will not generate dividend income. Because ProShares invest in derivatives, they will not have dividend distributions that reflect those of their applicable indexes.

Top 10 Index Companies 2 Weight
Verizon Communications Inc. 14.30%
CenturyLink Inc. 7.98%
Sprint Nextel Corp. 4.40%
Frontier Communications Corp. 3.81%
Cincinnati Bell Inc. 1.37%
Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc. 1.24%
Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. 1.06%
General Communication Inc. 1.02%
Cbeyond Inc. 0.89%
Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc. 0.49%

2 = ProShares may invest in financial instruments (including derivatives) that, in combination, should have similar daily price return characteristics to the fund's benchmark.

Index Sector Weightings 3 Weight
Fixed Line Telecommunications 70.66%
Mobile Telecommunications 29.34%

3 = Sum of weightings may not equal 100% due to rounding.