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Mormon News started the stock index as part of its effort to provide unique Mormon-related news features. It remains, to our knowledge, the only stock index measuring the performance of Mormon executives.
While Mormon News' founder, Kent Larsen, had thought about a Mormon Stock Index well before the news service was founded, another Mormon news medium, the Latter-day Herald (Washington DC area, now defunct), provided a list of companies run by Mormons along with their current stock prices that it called the Mormon Stock Index. However, that list did not include an overall calculation.
The stock index was started during the first week of July, 2000 using the list of companies from the Latter-day Herald and additional companies Mormon News had identified in its then nearly three years of operation. The original list had just 17 companies.
The following list includes all the changes made to the index since its inception:
| History |
| 18 January 2002: |
| Added |
| · Central Pacific Bank |
| · K-Swiss, Inc. |
| · Williams Companies, Inc. |
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| 24 December 2001: |
| Added |
| · La Quinta Properties, Inc. |
| Dropped |
| · Computerized Thermal Imaging |
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| 14 December 2001: |
| Added |
| · Tropical Sportswear |
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| 7 December 2001: |
| Added |
| · Downey Savings and Loan |
| · Headwaters, Inc. |
| · KeyCorp. |
| · Micro General |
| · priceline.com Inc. |
| · Phelps Dodge Corp. |
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| 23 November 2001: |
| Added |
| · American Express |
| · Franklin Covey (Market Cap.) |
| · Merit Medical Systems |
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| 22 October 2001: |
| Added |
| · Diebold |
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| 1 October 2001: |
| Dropped |
| · Bayview Capital (Mormon Executive Left), |
| · Franklin Covey (Low Market Cap.) |
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| 27 August 2001: |
| Added |
| · Monaco Coach, |
| · Microsemi Corp. |
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| 16 July 2001: |
| Added |
| · Oil States International |
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| 25 June 2001: |
| Added |
| · Affiliated Computer Services |
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| 18 June 2001: |
| Added |
| · Cygnus Inc., |
| · NPS Pharmaceuticals |
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| 4 June 2001: |
| Added |
| · Swift Transportation |
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| 29 May 2001: |
| Added |
| · Dionex |
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| 14 May 2001: |
| Added |
| · Avista Corp., |
| · SkyWest Airlines; |
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| Dropped |
| · Fonix (Low Market Cap.), |
| · Washington Group International (Bankruptcy) |
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| 30 April 2001: |
| Added |
| · Fonix |
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| 2 April 2001: |
| Added |
| · Washington Group International; |
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| Dropped |
| · Fonix |
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| 5 March 2001: |
| Added |
| · Bayview Capital, |
| · Hillenbrand Industries |
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| 26 February 2001: |
| Added |
| · Cadence Design, |
| · Hollywood Entertainment; |
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| Dropped |
| · Caldera Systems (Low Market Cap.), |
| · TenFold (Low Market Cap.) |
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| 29 January 2001: |
| Added |
| · Caldera Systems, |
| · Computerized Thermal Imaging, |
| · JP Realty, |
| · TenFold |
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| 2 January 2001: |
| Added |
| · Knight Transportation; |
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| Dropped |
| · Caldera Systems (Low Market Cap.), |
| · Hollywood Entertainment (Low Market Cap.), |
| · I-Link (Low Market Cap.), |
| · TenFold (Low Market Cap.) |
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| 23 October 2000: |
| Dropped |
| · First Security Corp. (Company Merged) |
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| 16 October 2000: |
| Dropped |
| · Netrix Networks (Mormon Executive Left) |
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| 11 September 2000: |
| Added |
| · AES Corp., |
| · Cornerstone REIT, |
| · Oakley; |
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| Dropped |
| · Nationwide Financial Services (Mormon Executive Retired) |
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| 4 August 2000: |
| Dropped |
| · Albertsons (Mormon Executive Left) |
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| 28 July 2000: |
| Added |
| · Corvis |
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| 24 July 2000: |
| Added |
| · EarthShell |
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| 3 July 2000: |
| Added |
| · I-Link, |
| · Micrel Semiconductor, |
| · NuSkin, |
| · TenFold |
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| 21 March 2000: |
| Added |
| · Caldera Systems |
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| 1 January 2000: |
| Mormon Stock Index Calculation Starting Date. Index begins with the following companies: |
| · Albertsons |
| · Black & Decker |
| · 1-800-Contacts |
| · Dell Computer |
| · Franklin Covey |
| · Fonix |
| · First Security Corporation |
| · Hollywood Entertainment |
| · Host Marriott |
| · Iomega |
| · Marriott International |
| · Myriad Genetics |
| · Nationwide Financial Services |
| · Novell |
| · Netrix Networks |
| · Ryder Systems |
| · Zion Bancorp. |
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