Leedle crawls under the options wire
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 11:47 am
Healthways CEO Ben Leedle on Tuesday exercised 30,000 options that would have expired this morning. He sold about half of the resulting shares (Ticker: HWAY) at eight times his cost — primarily to cover the tax bill — and has retained almost $250,000 worth of new shares of the disease manager.
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We’re getting unhappier at work
Posted on at 10:49 am
Southerners responding to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index last month indicated their work environments are worsening. The South’s score is now below the national average for the first time since March. View the full study here.
Analyst action: Healthways, Pinnacle, Synovus
Posted on October 26, 2009 at 12:46 pm
After Healthways’ big gain following its Q3 report, Stifel Nicolaus analyst Tom Carroll has lowered his rating on the disease manager (Ticker: HWAY) to ‘hold’ from ‘buy.’ The valuation-based call is diametrically opposed to that of Art Henderson at Jefferies, who on Friday upgraded Healthways and raised his target to $20. So far, Carroll is winning: Healthways is down 7 percent today.
At Zacks Investment Research, shares of Pinnacle Financial are now on the ‘exclusive’ list of stocks investors should sell or avoid in the coming months. Pinnacle (Ticker: PNFP) last week reported a larger-than-expected loss.
And in related regional banking news, Wunderlich analyst Kevin Reynolds has some strong words on Synovus Financial Group, the parent of The Bank of Nashville. Reynolds has dropped Synovus to a ’sell’ and slapped a price target of $1.50 on the shares — half the price at the open today. The company last week posted a loss of more than $400 million and its stock (Ticker: SNV) has fallen more than 60 percent this year.
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A nice way to end the week
Posted on October 23, 2009 at 3:53 pmFollowing an upbeat earnings report, Healthways shares (Ticker: HWAY) rose 14 percent on Friday to their highest level in 13 months.
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The workplace is getting worse, but we’re handling it pretty well
Posted on October 8, 2009 at 7:32 am
One of the main data nuggets in this month’s Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is a significant drop in the quality of the work environment. But it appears most Americans are dealing with the professional hardship pretty effectively, given that the index’s life evaluation component is rising nicely, especially in the South and Midwest.
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Healthways band takes the corporate crown
Posted on October 6, 2009 at 8:19 am
Strat 5, the band made up of Healthways employees, was last weekend named winner of the 2009 Fortune Battle of the Corporate Bands contest. The seven-member band beat out groups from Utah, Memphis and Norway, among others.
SEE ALSO: Healthways is getting the band back together
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Wanted: A new face for a Healthways class action – and the ability to make meetings
Posted on September 25, 2009 at 2:08 am
The class action that took to task disease manager Healthways about its use of company stock in its 401(k) plan has been voluntarily dismissed because the lead plaintiff couldn’t make it to a deposition and had to withdraw from the case. The matter had been in the discovery phase with a trial date scheduled for next April.
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Two local health care players on IT best-of list
Posted on September 15, 2009 at 10:59 am
Healthways has been ranked 35th on the annual InformationWeek 500 list of top information technology organizations. The only other locally headquartered ranked in the top list’s top half is HCA. First Horizon, the Memphis-based parent of First Tennessee Bank, also ranks in the top 50.
SEE ALSO: Healthways’ release on the topic
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Healthways pops on upgrade
Posted on September 10, 2009 at 11:45 am
…And maybe something related to President Obama’s health reform speech last night.
William Blair has upgraded shares of Healthways to ‘outperform’ from ‘market perform.’ The stock (Ticker: HWAY) is up more than 10 percent today and has risen by a quarter this month.
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Got to admit it’s getting better
Posted on at 6:29 amA sizable jump in the number of people satisfied with their work environment lifted the August Well-Being Index compiled by Healthways and Gallup.
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Healthways is getting the band back together
Posted on August 3, 2009 at 2:36 pmA small Healthways unit has landed a really big gig.
FORTUNE magazine announced today the eight bands that will be advancing to final competition of the “Ninth Annual FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands.” The first music competition of its kind, the FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands provides amateur, company-sponsored bands the opportunity to step out of the conference room and celebrate their passion for music. The eight qualifying bands will take the stage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 2-3, 2009, and have the opportunity to earn the title of best corporate band.
The all-Healthways band Strat 5, formed in 1997, will be competing with other songsters from around the country such as The S.A.Ps of Johnson & Johnson, The St. Jude’s Mighty Electric Band from Memphis’ St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, and Manage This of Symantec, to name a few.
Strat 5 was founded by Robin Davis, Nadine Conley, Jeff Elkins and Marty Leinwand. It is currently comprised of seven staff members with CEO Ben Leedle apparently even playing the occasional cowbell.
NashvillePost.com wishes Nashville’s one representative in the crowd good luck. Do Bruce Dickinson (both of them) proud!
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How Medicare can save trillions
Posted on July 30, 2009 at 8:05 amRepeat after me: “Reduced health risk progression, reduced health risk progression…”
Healthways’ research staff has crunched a bunch of numbers to tell us that if seniors enter Medicare in a healthier state — having been coached on wellness and disease management in the years before they become eligible — the government health care program could spend $1.4 trillion less over a decade.
“The government and health care industry have long believed there to be a substantial cost benefit from prevention, health promotion and chronic care management,” said Ben R. Leedle,
Healthways chief executive officer. “This research validates and quantifies that assumption and
could have significant implications for the reform debate, health benefit coverage and policy in
general.”
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Nice end to Healthways’ week
Posted on July 24, 2009 at 1:01 pmAfter it raised its earnings guidance yesterday – leading to an upgrade to ‘buy’ from BB&T Capital Markets – shares of the disease manager (Ticker: HWAY) are up almost 20 percent.
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HWAY marketers honored
Posted on July 14, 2009 at 10:42 amHealthways’ marketing team recently received the Innovator Award in the “Emerging Media” category from Summit International Awards.
For 15 years, Summit International Awards has been dedicated to acknowledging outstanding achievements in the creative and communications industries. Healthways was recognized for development of an interactive demonstration of the Healthways Wellness Portal, which trains users to make the most out of the site.
“In our business, engagement and behavior change is a core competency. Inspiring people to better lifestyles and healthier behaviors only happens through trust in the program,” said Steve Brueckner, Healthways president and chief operating officer. “This award is high accolades for us, demonstrating our industry leading position in engagement.”
The Healthways Wellness Portal makes health improvement easier for users who have busy lives. The goal of the demonstration is to give users the knowledge they need to interact with the Wellness Portal to their best advantage. The Wellness Portal packs a wealth of helpful information and features aimed at improving health and well-being, including a health risk assessment, a detailed personal health report and a comprehensive health tracker feature.
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Way to be more ‘well’
Posted on July 9, 2009 at 1:36 pmApparently, according to the June well-being index released by Healthways and Gallup Inc., we’re doing better
After tracking significant setbacks in well-being through the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the June Well-Being Report shows America may be on the road to recovery. Overall well-being reached 66.8, its second highest level since the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index™ (WBI) began in January 2008. The Life Evaluation Index (LEI), one of the six sub-indices composing the WBI, stabilized after dramatic gains over the past few months, ending at 47.8, a new high for the LEI beating the previous high from May 2009 of 47.5.
Full index found here.
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