WTW's North America Meeting Trends Promising but Concerns Linger for Online/International Operations
In many respects, Weight Watchers' third-quarter update echoed the previous quarter, with encouraging trends in North American meetings but competitive and execution issues in its U.K. and Continental European operations, as well as online member growth lagging meeting growth in many markets. While top-line growth of 3% fell short of our expectations calling for 5%-6% growth heading into the quarter, the shortfall will be offset by more efficient marketing spending, leaving our $13 fair value es...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.
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