Program enhancements are helping Weight Watchers adapt to a still competitive, uncertain market.
Weight Watchers carried much of its late 2016 momentum into the new year, with first-quarter results accentuated by 16% growth in subscribers year over year (20% online, 11% meetings), solid acceleration in online paid weeks across each core operating region (including 13% growth in the U.K., which has been a weak point in recent quarters), 7% top-line growth, and 510 basis points of operating margin expansion to 9.4%. In our view, the subscriber, paid week, and sales results suggest that the Be...Weight Watchers International is a wellness company and provider of commercial weight management program. The company's Weight Management Program and Plan is comprised of a range of nutritional, activity, behavioral and lifestyle tools and approaches, and includes its food plan, known as SmartPoints. The company's services and products include meetings conducted by the company and its franchisees, digital offerings provided through its websites, mobile sites and apps, consumer products sold at meetings and through the company's websites, licensed and endorsed products sold in retail channels and magazine subscriptions and other publications. The company provides subscriptions for its plans for meetings and online subscriptions.
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.
Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.
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