FONAR Set to Join Russell 3000 and 2000 Indexes
FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR) announced its inclusion in the Russell 3000® and Russell 2000® Indexes effective June 29, 2020. This milestone reflects the company's strong financial performance and aims to enhance visibility to investors. The Russell Indexes serve as benchmarks for approximately $9 trillion in assets, being widely used by investment managers and institutional investors. Founder and Chairman Raymond V. Damadian expressed pride in this recognition, highlighting a decade of improving operating performance.
- Inclusion in the Russell 3000 and Russell 2000 Indexes enhances visibility to investors.
- Indicates strong financial performance over the past decade.
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MELVILLE, N. Y., June 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR), The Inventor of MR Scanning™, reported today that upon the opening of U.S. markets on June 29, 2020, FONAR will, as part of the annual reconstitution of the Russell Indexes, be joining the broad-market Russell 3000® Index and the Russell 2000® Index. The Russell 3000 Index is a market-capitalization-weighted equity index that tracks the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S.-traded stocks. The Russell 2000 is a subset of the smallest 2000 components.
Raymond V. Damadian, M.D., Founder and Chairman of FONAR stated, “We believe our inclusion in the Russell indexes is a major milestone for the Company. It reflects FONAR’s strong financial performance and increases the Company’s visibility to investors.”
Timothy Damadian, president and CEO of FONAR, added, "It’s very satisfying to see the Company, in its effort to create shareholder value, recognized for consistently improving its operating performance and financial position over the past decade.”
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About FONAR
FONAR, the Inventor of MR Scanning™, located in Melville, NY, was incorporated in 1978, and is the first, oldest and most experienced MRI company in the industry. FONAR introduced the world’s first commercial MRI in 1980, and went public in 1981. FONAR’s signature product is the FONAR UPRIGHT® Multi-Position™ MRI (also known as the Stand-Up® MRI), the only whole-body MRI that performs Position™ Imaging (pMRI™) and scans patients in numerous weight-bearing positions, i.e. standing, sitting, in flexion and extension, as well as the conventional lie-down position. The FONAR UPRIGHT® MRI often detects patient problems that other MRI scanners cannot because they are lie-down and ”weightless” only scanners. The patient-friendly UPRIGHT® MRI has a near-zero patient claustrophobic rejection rate. As a FONAR customer states, “If the patient is claustrophobic in this scanner, they’ll be claustrophobic in my parking lot.” Approximately
FONAR has new works-in-progress technology for visualizing and quantifying the cerebral hydraulics of the central nervous system, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which circulates throughout the brain and vertebral column at the rate of 32 quarts per day. This imaging and quantifying of the dynamics of this vital life-sustaining physiology of the body’s neurologic system has been made possible first by FONAR’s introduction of the MRI and now by this latest works-in-progress method for quantifying CSF in all the normal positions of the body, particularly in its upright flow against gravity. Patients with whiplash or other neck injuries are among those who will benefit from this new understanding.
FONAR’s substantial list of patents includes recent patents for its technology enabling full weight-bearing MRI imaging of all the gravity sensitive regions of the human anatomy, especially the brain, extremities and spine. It includes its newest technology for measuring the Upright cerebral hydraulics of the central nervous system. FONAR’s UPRIGHT® Multi-Position™ MRI is the only scanner licensed under these patents.
UPRIGHT® and STAND-UP® are registered trademarks and The Inventor of MR Scanning™, Full Range of Motion™, Multi-Position™, Upright Radiology™, The Proof is in the Picture™, True Flow™, pMRI™, Spondylography™, Dynamic™, Spondylometry™, CSP™, and Landscape™, are trademarks of FONAR Corporation.
This release may include forward-looking statements from the company that may or may not materialize. Additional information on factors that could potentially affect the company's financial results may be found in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contact: Daniel Culver Director of Communications E-mail: www.fonar.com
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