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Alpha Bytes, LCA-Vision, Ergovision, and Summit Technology

Lead Vision Care Stocks With Strong Performance

During Q1 1999

Alpha Bytes, LCA-Vision, Ergovision, and Summit Technology posted the largest percentage gains of vision care stocks for the first quarter, according to OptiStock.com's "Top Performers" report.

The report presents each quarter's best-performing vision industry stocks, as well as biggest gains in each of five vision industry sectors: retail/PPMC/managed care, contact lens manufacturers, eyewear/sunwear, laser vision correction, and pharmaceuticals.

Alpha Bytes was up 613%, LCA-Vision 191%, Ergovision 156%, and Summit Technology 151% for the first quarter. For 1998, largest percentage gains were by VISX (295%), Laser Vision Centers (200%), KeraVision (125%), and TLC The Laser Center (119%).

The best-performing sector was laser vision correction, whose composite stock price increased by 59% in March alone.

Look for top performers within each vision care sector and performance rankings of all stocks in the OptiStock Index at http://www.optistock.com.

OptiStock.com provides information on the vision care market, including stock performance, market overviews and background information, stock quotes, analyst discussions, a free weekly e-mail newsletter, and the OptiStock Index, a month-by-month composite index of vision care stocks.

OptiStock follows more than 60 companies involved in vision care, including 1-800 Contacts (Nasdaq:CTAC), Akorn (Nasdaq:AKRN), Allergan (NYSE:AGN), Alpha Bytes (OTCBB:ABYT), American Consolidated Labs (OTCBB:AMCL), Atlantic Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:ATLC), Autonomous Technologies (Nasdaq:ATCI), BMC Industries (NYSE:BMC), Bacou (NYSE:BAU), Bausch & Lomb (NYSE:BOL), Bolle (Nasdaq:BEYE), Coherent (Nasdaq:COHR), Cole National (NYSE:CNJ), Cooper Companies (NYSE:COO), Coronado Industries (OTCBB:CDIK), De Rigo (NYSE:DER), Ergovision (OTCBB:ERGV), Escalon Medical (Nasdaq:ESMC), Eyemakers (OTCBB:EYEM), First American Health (Nasdaq:FAHC), Franklin Ophthalmic Instruments (OTCBB:FKLN), Gargoyles (OTCBB:GOYL), Gimbel Vision (ASE:GBV), InSite Vision (AMEX:ISV), Iridex (Nasdaq:IRIX), KeraVision (Nasdaq:KERA), LCA-Vision (Nasdaq:LCAV), LaserSight (Nasdaq:LASE), Laser Vision Centers (Nasdaq:LVCI), Luxottica (NYSE:LUX), Medical Technology & Innovations (OTCBB:MTEN), Medjet (OTCBB:MDJT), MedNet (TSE:MDT), Mentor (Nasdaq:MNTR), Miravant (Nasdaq:MRVT), Oakley (NYSE:OO), Ocular Sciences (Nasdaq:OCLR), Omega Health (Nasdaq:OHSI), Ophthalmic Imaging (OTCBB:OISI), Optical Concepts (OTCBB:OICU), Paradigm Medical (Nasdaq:PMED), Pharmos (Nasdaq:PARS), Premier Laser (Nasdaq:PLSIA), QLT PhotoTherapeutics (Nasdaq:QLTI), Serengeti Eyewear (OTCBB:SOLR), Sight Resource (Nasdaq:VISN), Signature Eyewear (Nasdaq:SEYE), Sola International (NYSE:SOL), Staar Surgical (Nasdaq:STAA), Sterling Vision (Nasdaq:ISEE), Summit Technology (Nasdaq:BEAM), Sunglass Hut (Nasdaq:RAYS), Sunrise Technologies (Nasdaq:SNRS), TLC The Laser Center (Nasdaq:LZRC), UltraVision (ASE:UVC), Unilens (Vancouver:UVI), U.S. Vision (Nasdaq:USVI), Vision Twenty-One (Nasdaq:EYES), Vista Eyecare (Nasdaq:VSTA), VISX (Nasdaq:VISX), and Wesley Jessen (Nasdaq:WJCO).