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By Kent Larsen

MSI: Four Companies Join Mormon Stock Index Amid Media Attention

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- Four companies joined the Mormon Stock Index this week because of attention from print media and improving fortunes at two small firms. Within hours of a feature article in the Salt Lake Tribune that mentioned the index, Fred P. Lampropoulos of Merit Medical Systems told Mormon News about his firm and a website visitor indicated that Gary Crittenden, CFO of giant financial services firm American Express Company is Mormon. Meanwhile, improving fortunes at Franklin Covey and TenFold put both firms back on the Mormon Stock Index.

Both Merit Medical Systems and American Express were added from submissions at the stock index's new website, which includes a submission form at http://www.MormonStockIndex.com/msi/suggest.shtml . We hope and expect to have more submissions from the website as it becomes better known.

The index itself dropped slightly for the week, down 0.25%, which was better than both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 but not as good as the NASDAQ, which rose just over 1% for the week. The index was led by TenFold, newly back on the list, which dropped over 40% for the week. Also contributing to the decline were 1-800-Contacts (down 14%), AES Corp. (down 5%), and American Express (down 4%). On the upside, SkyWest was up 11% with Dell supporting the index with a 6% rise.

Overall 17 of the now 38 stocks on the index were down and 21 rose for the week.

Mormon Stock Index			108.35	down 0.28
Company	Symbol	LDS Executive	Closing Price	Change
Affiliated Computer Services	ACS	Lynn Blodgett, Executive Vice President and Group President - Business Process Solutions Group	93.38	down 2.82
AES Corp.	AES	Roger W. Sant, Chairman	16.52	down 0.92
Avista Corp.	AVA	Gary Ely, Chairman	12.00	up 0.03
American Express Company	AXP	Gary Crittenden, CFO and Exec. VP	32.91	down 1.46
Black & Decker	BDK	Nolan D. Archbald, CEO	37.04	up 1.46
Cadence Design	CDN	Raymond Bingham, President & CEO	23.85	up 0.76
Computerized Thermal Imaging, Inc.	CIO	David Packer, President & COO	2.00	up 0.05
Corvis	CORV	David Huber, CEO	3.06	down 0.23
1-800-Contacts	CTAC	Jonathan C. Coon, President & CEO	14.39	down 2.37
Cygnus Inc.	CYGN	John Hodgman, Chairman, President & CEO	5.51	no change
Diebold	DBD	Wesley B. Vance, COO	38.79	down 1.06
Dell Computer	DELL	Kevin B. Rollins, Vice Chairman	27.93	up 1.57
Dionex	DNEX	A. Blaine Bowman, President & CEO	26.27	up 0.32
EarthShell	ERTH	Simon K. Hodson, CEO	2.60	down 0.10
Franklin Covey	FC	Stephen R. Covey, Chairman	6.20	up 0.42
Hillenbrand Industries	HB	Frederick Rockwood, President & CEO	52.64	down 0.76
Hollywood Entertainment	HLYW	Mark J. Wattles, CEO	14.90	down 0.65
Host Marriott	HMT	Richard Marriott, Chairman	8.42	up 0.06
Iomega	IOM	David J. Dunn, Chairman	6.80	down 0.13
JP Realty	JPR	M. Scott Collins, CFO	22.67	up 0.09
Knight Transportation	KNGT	Keith, Gary & Kevin Knight,	27.80	up 0.74
Marriott International	MAR	J.W. Marriott, Jr., Chairman	37.62	up 1.45
Micrel Semiconductor	MCRL	Ray Zinn, Chairman and CEO	29.26	up 0.66
Merit Medical Systems	MMSI	Fred Lampropoulos, Chairman, Pres and CEO	14.67	up 0.92
Monaco Coach	MNC	Kay Toolson, Chairman and CEO	19.50	up 0.46
Microsemi Corp.	MSCC	James Peterson, President & CEO	31.10	down 2.59
Myriad Genetics	MYGN	Christopher L. Wight, VP, General Counsel	56.89	up 0.77
Novell	NOVL	Stewart Nelson, COO	4.26	up 0.27
NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	NPSP	James Jensen, VP of Corp. Devel. and Legal Affairs Sec.	38.45	down 0.45
NuSkin	NUS	All Mormon Mgmt,	7.95	down 0.05
Oil States International	OIS	L.E. Simmons, Chairman	9.24	up 1.04
Oakley	OO	Jim Jannard, Chairman & CEO	13.05	down 0.28
Ryder Systems	R	Tony Burns, Chairman	20.50	up 0.08
SkyWest Airlines	SKYW	Jerry Atkin, Chairman & CEO	23.31	up 2.31
Swift Transportation	SWFT	Jerry Moyes, Chairman & CEO	20.24	down 0.71
Cornerstone Realty Income Trust Inc	TCR	Glade M. Knight, Chairman & CEO	11.28	down 0.02
Ten Fold	TENF	John M. Ames, CFO	0.54	down 0.38
Zions Bancorp	ZION	Harris Simmons, Chairman	48.28	up 0.92

The following companies do not meet the $100 million capital requirement for inclusion in the Mormon Stock Index:

• Buyer's Online (BUYO.OB)
• Caldera Systems (CALD)
• Fonix (FONX.OB)
• Geneva Steel (GNVH)
• International Automated Systems Inc (IAUS.OB)
• I-Link (ILNK.OB)
• MITY Enterprises (MITY)
• MetalClad (MTLC)
• NX Networks (NXWX)
• Wade Cook Financial (WADE.OB)
• Washington Group Intl (WNG)

Please Help Us Confirm Other Mormon Companies:

Mormon News' research confirms that there are probably other companies with Mormon management that we currently don't know about. Our research uncovered several companies which may have Mormon executives, but which we were unable to confirm as of yet. If you have any confirming information about the following companies, please let me know:

• FX Energy (Utah)
• Gertner Communications (Utah)
• Headwaters, Inc. (Utah)
• Nature's Sunshine (Utah)
• Questar (Utah)
• Sonic Innovations (Utah)

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