FORTUNE Small Business Ranks America’s Fastest-Growing Small Companies; Netsmart Technologies Ranked Number 48

FORTUNE Small Business announced today that Netsmart Technologies, Inc. NTST has been ranked 48 on the fifth annual FSB 100 list of the 100 fastest growing small companies in America

USA (June 20, 2005) –

FORTUNE Small Business announced today that Netsmart Technologies, Inc. NTST has been ranked 48 on the fifth annual FSB 100 list of the 100 fastest growing small companies in America. The list, which is comprised of public companies, appears in the July/August issue of FORTUNE Small Business, available on newsstands July 4 and at http://www.fsb.com.

James Conway, CEO of Netsmart Technologies stated, “We are extremely pleased to be recognized by FORTUNE Small Business magazine. This is our second consecutive year on the list. Last year we were recognized as the 70th fastest growing small company.”

California tops the list of the states with the most companies on the FORTUNE Small Business 100 with 14 companies, followed by Texas and Florida with nine and New York and Pennsylvania with eight.

To compile the list, FORTUNE Small Business asked financial research firm Zacks to screen annual reports for public companies with annual revenue of less than $200 million and a stock price of more than $1. Within that group, companies were ranked based on the past three years’ earnings growth, revenue growth, and stock performance. Real estate firms and banks, which had begun to override the list in recent years, were not considered for the list this year.

Source: Netsmart