On Thursday, Shares of Fit bit Inc (NYSE:FIT), gained 1.12% to $28.99.
Fit Star, a leading digital health and fitness company, has launched its popular mobile, video-based fitness app, Fit Star Personal Trainer (in English), for Android users in the G.C.C Region. A recipient of Apple’s Editors’ Choice Award, in addition to an App Store Best of 2013 and Best of 2014 product, Fit Star Personal Trainer’s expansion to Android opens the door for an entirely new audience to access the same award-winning Fit Star experience on their mobile phones.
Fit Star Personal Trainer for Android offers a wide range of exercises within four aim-based Programs: Get Strong, Get Lean, Get Moving and Daily Dose. To keep the experience fresh, Fit Star Personal Trainer also launches stand-alone workouts monthly, and to date has debuted nearly 30 handcrafted Freestyle sessions such as “10-Minute Abs,” “7-Minute Workout,” and “The Fit Star 15.” Freestyle sessions are a perfect way to change up workouts or add on to existing sessions, and now they’re available for Android users, too.
Fit Star Personal Trainer for Android puts convenience in users’ hands by crafting personalized sessions led by football star Tony Gonzalez that can be done anywhere, anytime. Each workout is fully customized to a person’s fitness level so it can support a wide range of exercises, for people just getting started to highly conditioned athletes. By tailoring the intensity and difficulty of each move, the workouts progress as the user progresses.
Fitbit Inc. manufactures and provides wearable fitness-tracking devices worldwide. The company makes both wrist bands and clippable devices that monitor a user’s fitness activity by tracking the calories burned or distance covered.
Shares of Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH), declined -7.88% to $26.32, during its last trading session.
The Joint Commission named 118 hospitals associated with Community Health Systems, Inc. (CYH) as 2014 Top Performers on Key Quality Measures.
Only 1,043 – or about one-third – of eligible United States hospitals were comprised on the annual list published by the Joint Commission, the leading accrediting agency for healthcare organizations. Top Performers were recognized for improving performance on evidence-based interventions shown to improvement the chances of healthy outcomes for patients with certain conditions, counting heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children’s asthma, inpatient psychiatric services, stroke, venous thromboembolism, perinatal care, immunization, tobacco treatment and substance abuse.
Of the 118 CHS-associated hospitals recognized this year, 101 have appeared on the list more than once. Twenty-five CHS-associated hospitals have achieved the recognition for the five successive years it has been awarded, out of 117 hospitals nationwide to do so.
Community Health Systems, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, provides general and specialized hospital healthcare services to patients in the United States. The company operates general acute care hospitals that offer a range of inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services, such as general acute care, emergency room, general and specialty surgery, critical care, internal medicine, obstetrics, diagnostic, psychiatric, and rehabilitation services, in addition to skilled nursing and home care services based on individual community needs.
Finally, Shares of Dicks Sporting Goods Inc (NYSE:DKS), ended its last trade with 1.24% gain, and closed at $37.61.
DICK’S Sporting Goods, stated sales and earnings results for the third quarter ended October 31, 2015.
Third Quarter Results
The Company stated merged net income for the third quarter ended October 31, 2015 of $47.2 million, or $0.41 per diluted share. The Company stated merged net income for the third quarter ended November 1, 2014 of $49.2 million, or $0.41 per diluted share. Not Taking Into Account a litigation settlement charge in the current year, net income was $51.9 million, or $0.45 per diluted share contrast to the Company’s expectations offered on August 18, 2015 of $0.45 to 0.48 per diluted share. The GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation is comprised in a table later in the release under the heading “Non-GAAP Net Income and Earnings Per Share Reconciliations.”
Net sales for the third quarter of 2015 raised 7.6% to about $1.6 billion. Merged same store sales raised 0.4%, contrast to the Company’s guidance of an improvement of 1 to 3%. Same store sales for DICK’S Sporting Goods raised 0.7%, while Golf Galaxy reduced 2.9%. Third quarter 2014 merged same store sales raised 1.1%.
“Our positive same store sales for the quarter reflected a strong back-to-school selling season tempered by slowing trends later in the quarter. Strength in athletic footwear, accessories and athletic apparel was moderated by the impact of record warm weather in more seasonal categories,” said Edward W. Stack, Chairman and CEO. “With strong operational discipline, we generated earnings per share within our guided range.”
Mr. Stack continued, “As we look to the fourth quarter, we anticipate a more promotional environment. Our focus will be to actively manage our inventory levels, while ongoing to take the appropriate actions to win share and strengthen our business for the long term.”