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Healthways
Industry Health care
Founded 1981
Headquarters Franklin, Tennessee, United States
Area served
United States, Brazil, France, Germany
Key people
Services Disease management
Revenue Increase US$742,183,000 (2014)
Operating income
Increase US$7,433,000 (2014)
Profit Decrease US$5,561,000 (2014)
Number of employees
2,500+ (2015)
Website healthways.com

Healthways is a well-being improvement company founded in 1981 and headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.

In 2003, the company topped a list of "America's fastest-growing small companies," based on earnings/share growth, revenue growth, and total return. The company's name was changed from American Healthways (NASDAQ: AMHC) to "Healthways" (NASDAQ: HWAY) in 2006 in order to better compete for business outside the United States. In 2009 Healthways acquired HealthHonors, a behavior economics company that specializes in behavior change science and use of incentives.

In 2010, Blue Zones and Healthways teamed up to create, support, and sustain a national movement to improve community health and well-being by leading a city-by-city environment transformation with collaboration from both the public and private sectors.

In 2011, Healthways acquired Navvis & Company, a St. Louis-based firm providing strategic counsel and change management services both to enable its healthcare system clients to become future-ready clinical enterprises and to align the incentives for all stakeholders. Their partnership is now called Navvis Healthways.

In 2013, Healthways and The Lampo Group, Inc. — headed by Dave Ramsey — entered into an exclusive agreement for Healthways to deliver the CORE Financial Wellness program as part of its Well-Being Improvement Solution. This program is known as Healthways Financial Well-Being, Powered by Dave Ramsey. Also in 2013, Healthways contracted with Dean Ornish to operate and license his Lifestyle Management Programs. The agreement enabled the company to offer programs for changing lifestyles in order to prevent, treat and reverse certain chronic diseases.

Healthways currently operates eight Well-Being Improvement Centers (WBICs) across the US, and three international facilities.

QuitNet is an online smoking cessation system emphasizing social support as a mechanism for behavior change. The system originated at Boston University's School of Public Health in 1995 as a demonstration project and was spun-out as a for-profit entity in 2000. The company was later merged along with SilverSneakers and others to form Axia Health Management, Inc. and ultimately acquired by Healthways in 2006.

MeYou Health is a subsidiary of Healthways. Daily Challenge, their core product, is an interactive social gaming program designed to suggest slight changes in lifestyle to improve well-being. It incorporates Walkadoo, a wireless pedometer program, a Well-Being Tracker, to monitor changes in lifestyle, Hello 200, a social community element to help users find ways to reduce 200 calories a day-the amount typically needed to create greater fitness, and Quitnet, an online smoking cessation system.

Q reports

Period Date Adjusted Actuals EPS GAAP EPS

Ratings

2016-05-03 Reiterated Rating Jefferies Group Hold $13.00
2016-04-30 Reiterated Rating Barrington Research Buy
2016-04-29 Lower Price Target Barrington Research Outperform $15.00 to $14.00
2016-04-29 Reiterated Rating FBR & Co. Buy
2016-04-29 Reiterated Rating FBR & Co Buy
2016-04-15 Initiated Coverage FBR & Co. Outperform $16.00
2016-02-27 Reiterated Rating Barrington Research Buy
2016-02-26 Boost Price Target Barrington Research Outperform $13.00 to $15.00
2016-02-26 Lower Price Target Jefferies Group Hold $12.00 to $11.00
2015-11-02 Lower Price Target Barclays Underweight $15.00 to $12.00
2015-11-02 Lower Price Target Barrington Research Outperform $18.00 to $13.00
2015-11-02 Lower Price Target Barclays PLC Underweight $15.00 to $12.00
2015-06-24 Lower Price Target Jefferies Group Hold $21.00 to $13.00
2015-06-21 Reiterated Rating William Blair Outperform
2015-06-19 Lower Price Target Dougherty & Co Buy $25.00 to $15.00
2015-06-19 Lower Price Target Piper Jaffray Overweight $25.50
2015-06-19 Lower Price Target Piper Jaffray Cos. Overweight $25.50
2015-06-18 Reiterated Rating Stephens Market Perform
2015-06-17 Initiated Coverage Oppenheimer Market Perform
2015-06-17 Initiated Coverage Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. Market Perform
2015-05-19 Downgrade Stifel Nicolaus Buy to Hold $25.00
2015-02-25 Reiterated Rating Jefferies Group Hold $16.00 to $21.00
2015-02-25 Boost Price Target Barclays Underweight $9.00 to $15.00
2015-02-25 Boost Price Target Stifel Nicolaus Buy $21.00 to $25.00
2015-01-22 Initiated Coverage Barrington Research Outperform $25.00
2014-10-08 Initiated Coverage BMO Capital Markets Outperform
2014-07-24 Upgrade Dougherty & Co Neutral to Buy
2014-06-19 Reiterated Rating Noble Financial Positive
2014-04-25 Upgrade Noble Financial Hold to Buy $12.00 to $21.00
2014-04-25 Reiterated Rating Stifel Nicolaus Buy $17.00 to $21.00
2014-04-09 Initiated Coverage Jefferies Group Hold $17.00
2014-02-14 Downgrade Dougherty & Company Buy to Neutral
2014-02-14 Downgrade Dougherty & Co Buy to Neutral
2013-10-25 Reiterated Dougherty & Company Buy $22 to $17
2013-10-25 Lower Price Target Stifel Nicolaus Buy $19.00 to $17.00
2013-10-25 Lower Price Target Dougherty & Co Buy $22.00 to $17.00
2013-10-25 Lower Price Target Barclays Underweight $14.00 to $9.00
2013-10-22 Initiated Coverage Credit Suisse Neutral
2013-10-02 Initiated Coverage Stephens Underweight
2013-09-24 Downgrade William Blair Market Perform
2013-02-25 Upgrade William Blair Mkt Perform to Outperform
2013-02-08 Reiterated Dougherty & Company Buy $12 to $16
2012-05-07 Upgrade Dougherty & Company Neutral to Buy $12 to $12
2012-02-16 Reiterated Stifel Nicolaus Buy $13 to $10
2011-12-08 Upgrade Stifel Nicolaus Hold to Buy $13
2011-10-25 Downgrade Barclays Capital Equal Weight to Underweight $19 to $5
2011-07-22 Reiterated Barclays Capital Equal Weight $13 to $19
2011-07-22 Downgrade JMP Securities Mkt Perform to Mkt Underperform $13
2016-05-03 Reiterated Rating Jefferies Group Hold $13.00
2016-04-30 Reiterated Rating Barrington Research Buy
2016-04-29 Lower Price Target Barrington Research Outperform $15.00 to $14.00
2016-04-29 Reiterated Rating FBR & Co. Buy
2016-04-29 Reiterated Rating FBR & Co Buy

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Major Shareholders

Name Relationship Total Shares Holding stocks
LEEDLE BEN R JR CEO 1.04%  (366720) DVCR / HWAY /
Farris Michael Chief Commercial Officer 0.96%  (340111) HWAY /
CIGARRAN THOMAS G 0.95%  (336726) AMSG / HWAY /
NORTH TIDE CAPITAL, LLC 0.92%  (325000) AFAM / AMED / ELOS / HWAY / SEM / VVUS /
LUMSDAINE ALFRED Chief Accounting Officer 0.58%  (204215) HWAY / QHC /
Tramuto Donato 0.42%  (149596) HWAY /
Cigarran Christopher VP, Human Resources 0.39%  (137258) HWAY /
Slovenski Sean President, Population Health 0.29%  (101268) HWAY /
Michela Matthew A. Chief Operating Officer 0.26%  (92825) HWAY /
Cox Thomas COO, Domestic 0.26%  (90795) HWAY /
Choueiri Peter President, International 0.21%  (74546) HWAY /
Stolz Sidney W President, Network Solutions 0.19%  (68531) HWAY /
Flipse Mary General Counsel 0.13%  (45167) HWAY /
Alison Taunton-Rigby 0.12%  (43105) HWAY /
Hargreaves Glenn Chief Accounting Officer 0.11%  (40404) HWAY /
Greczyn Robert J Jr 0.10%  (33590) HWAY / LPDX /
CHAPUT MARY A CFO 0.08%  (29868) HWAY /
Wickens John A 0.07%  (25769) HWAY /
Wills Kevin 0.07%  (24169) COH / HWAY /
Novelli William 0.07%  (23535) HWAY /
SHAPIRO LEE 0.07%  (23215) HWAY / MDRX / MDSO /
England Mary Jane 0.06%  (19453) HWAY /
Keckley Paul H. 0.05%  (17590) HWAY /
KARRO BRADLEY S 0.05%  (17590) EMAG / HWAY /
NEEL C WARREN 0.04%  (13663) HWAY /
BALLANTINE JOHN W 0.04%  (13663) HWAY / POR /
Elrod James W VP, General Counsel 0.04%  (12500) HWAY /
ONEIL WILLIAM C 0.03%  (11737) DVCR / HWAY /
Hudson Peter A 0.03%  (11387) HWAY /
Feldshon Archelle Georgiou 0.03%  (11387) HWAY / PRGX /
BISGARD JAY C 0.03%  (10280) HWAY /
Holland Adam C CFO 0.02%  (6596) HWAY / KIRK /
Brueckner Stefen F. President & COO 0.02%  (5394) HWAY /
KELLIHER MATTHEW President, International 0.01%  (2274) HWAY /