On Wednesday, Humana Inc (NYSE:HUM)’s shares declined -4.72% to $177.15.
Guthrie is teaming up with national health and well-being leader Humana Inc. (HUM) on a value-based health care agreement designed to offer Humana’s 4,000 Medicare Advantage members in north central Pennsylvania and south central New York an option for a more coordinated, more personalized health care experience.
Value-based care, also known as accountable care, is a growing national trend representing a shift away from the historic health care model that focused on treating individual health events. Value-based care aligns all players in the health care system to focus on a person’s overall health and long-term well-being.
Guthrie, a non-profit integrated health care delivery system located in north central Pennsylvania and Upstate New York, comprises four hospitals, more than 290 physicians and 175 mid-levels, 32 regional provider offices in 23 communities, and home health and home care services.
Humana Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates as a health and well-being company. The company operates through three segments: Retail, Group, and Healthcare Services. The Retail segment provides Medicare and commercial fully-insured medical and specialty health insurance benefits, counting dental, vision, and other supplemental health and financial protection products directly to individuals.
Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ:STLD)’s shares dropped -0.90% to $17.69.
Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD) declared third quarter 2015 net income of $61 million, or $0.25 per diluted share, on net sales of $2.0 billion. Comparatively, preceding year third quarter net income was $91 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, on net sales of $2.3 billion, and sequential second quarter 2015 net sales were $2.0 billion, with adjusted net income of $53 million, or $0.22 per diluted share, which excluded expenses of $0.09 per diluted share associated with both idling the company’s Minnesota operations and planned furnace maintenance at Iron Dynamics.
“An important barometer for domestic steel consumption is the strength of the construction industry. Historically, the construction industry has been the largest single domestic steel consuming sector, and it is ongoing on an upward trend,” continued Millett. “For the second successive quarter, our fabrication operations achieved record profitability. Steady demand resulted in a 17 percent enhance in third quarter 2015 fabrication shipments and orders remain robust, reflecting the steady positive trend in the non-residential construction market. Our fabrication operating profitability has raised $56 million, or 184 percent, so far this year, when contrast to 2014.
The company generated cash flow from operations of $164 million during the third quarter 2015. With accessible cash of $474 million at September 30, 2015, the company achieved record liquidity of $1.7 billion, providing a firm foundation for growth. During the nine months ended September 30, 2015, the company generated $708 million of cash flow from operations, and after considering capital expenditures, generated $622 million of free cash flow.
Steel Dynamics, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, manufactures and sells steel products, processes and sells recycled ferrous and nonferrous metals, and fabricates and sells steel joist and decking products in the United States and internationally.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Skyoperates Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:SWKS)‘s shares dipped -0.79% to $77.67.
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (SWKS) declared that TP-LINK’s newest router OnHub is being enabled by semiconductor content from Skyworks. The product leverages more than 20 Skyworks solutions to power multiple radios and 13 fully integrated antennas across various standards counting Bluetooth® 4.0, ZigBee®/Thread, 2 and 5 GHz applications for 802.11ac/b/g/n and Google’s Weave. In addition to delivering high data rates for audio and video streaming, web browsing and other wireless networking, the OnHub platform offers consumers a sleek, powerful and intelligent means for smart devices in the connected home – such as thermostats, smoke alarms, home security and lighting systems – to communicate regardless of the wireless standard. The router’s unique RF design also enables it to intelligently monitor networks, detecting data congestion before automatically re-routing it in order to optimize bandwidth performance.
According to a May 2015 Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast, fixed networking devices such as routers will handle about 82 percent of all consumer Internet traffic by 2019, with total Internet traffic growing by a compounded annual growth rate of 33 percent from 2015 to 2019. Connected home devices will grow at a compound annual rate of 67 percent over the next five years and reach 1.8 billion units shipped by 2019, according to Business Intelligence estimates. Connected home devices encompass all smart appliances (washers, dryers, and refrigerators), safety and security systems (internet-connected sensors, monitors, cameras, and alarm systems) and energy equipment such as smart thermostats and smart lighting.
Skyworks Solutions, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets analog and mixed signal semiconductors worldwide. Its product portfolio comprises amplifiers, attenuators, battery chargers, circulators, DC/DC converters, demodulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, filters, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure radio frequency subsystems, isolators, LED drivers, technical ceramics, and voltage regulators.
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