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Business Insider
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
RBC Capital Reaffirms Their Hold Rating on TELUS International (CDA) (TIXT)
In a report released on July 9, Daniel Perlin from RBC Capital maintained a Hold rating on TELUS International (CDA), with a price target of $5.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at $3.75. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Make smarter investment decisions with TipRanks' Smart Investor Picks, delivered to your inbox every week. According to TipRanks, Perlin is an analyst with an average return of -9.6% and a 39.64% success rate. Perlin covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Affirm Holdings, Broadridge Financial Solutions, and Fidelity National Info. The word on The Street in general, suggests a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating for TELUS International (CDA) with a $3.92 average price target. TIXT market cap is currently $1.06B and has a P/E ratio of -9.41. Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 63 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is positive on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders buying their shares of TIXT in relation to earlier this year.
Newsweek
02-07-2025
- Health
- Newsweek
Joint Commission Dives Into the Digital Age: 3 Big Updates
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The Joint Commission—the health care industry's oldest, largest accreditation and certification organization—is taking bold steps to modernize its standards and processes. Since early May, the organization has announced two high-tech partnerships and introduced a new standard for health care accreditation, driven by data analytics. "This is going to be a really exciting year," Dr. Jonathan Perlin, president and CEO of The Joint Commission, told Newsweek in an exclusive interview on June 20. Perlin took the helm in March of 2022, and was joined by a string of new leaders in the spring of 2024, including fresh appointments to the financial, medical, product development and international teams. "The team that we've built is, substantially, a new team," Perlin told Newsweek. "All of us have come from operational leadership roles—and we're clinicians—and so we're bringing our understanding of the new realities of health care." The Joint Commission is launching new partnerships and programs to drive efficiency and prioritize data analytics, President and CEO Dr. Jonathan Perlin told Newsweek. The Joint Commission is launching new partnerships and programs to drive efficiency and prioritize data analytics, President and CEO Dr. Jonathan Perlin told Newsweek. Getty Images As The Joint Commission's leadership looks towards the future, they aim to uphold the public trust the organization has established, Perlin added. But they want to do so more efficiently: not only evaluating health care providers, but proactively enabling them to achieve higher outcomes. "We see [The Joint Commission] doing that increasingly by introducing tools that make the reporting burden lower and the value of information higher," he said. Here are three recent updates from the body that evaluates more than 23,000 health care organizations and programs and over 80 percent of hospitals across the U.S., explained. 1. Accreditation 360 The Joint Commission launched "Accreditation 360" on June 30. This "new standard" for health care accreditation, as the organization calls it, will use data analytics to fine-tune its focus on benchmarking and outcomes. This "smarter, lighter" accreditation package will roll out two new tools to health care organizations. First, an updated accreditation manual will more clearly identify Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Conditions of Participation (CoPs). Other requirements and National Patient Safety goals will be funneled into The Joint Commission's National Performance Goals (NPGs). Second, a continuous engagement model will be made available to health care organizations, making it easier for them to seek ongoing support and prepare for The Joint Commission's survey. The Joint Commission has also taken steps to simplify its process: removing 714 requirements from the hospital accreditation program and streamlining accreditation requirements into 14 NPGs. "Healthcare organizations today are navigating historic complexity, and the pressures are enormous," Perlin said in the organization's news release. "Healthcare is also changing, and Joint Commission must change, too." To round out Accreditation 360, The Joint Commission's affiliate, The National Quality Forum, is introducing a new certification program focused on outcome measures in maternity care, and procedural care for hip and knee, spine and cardiovascular services. And finally, in a move to improve transparency, The Joint Commission will make standards publicly searchable online by July. Its new Survey Analysis for Evaluating STrengths (SAFEST) Program will highlight practices at accredited organizations, ultimately organizing them into a database of best practices that can be used for collaboration and learning across the industry. "This new model reflects a deep understanding of the pressures we face and offers a more collaborative, outcomes-focused approach to accreditation that helps us better serve our patients and communities," said Laura Kaiser, president and CEO of St. Louis-based SSM Health. 2. Palantir Partnership The Joint Commission announced its partnership with Palantir Technologies on May 8, intending to use the tech giant's data analytics and artificial intelligence tools to benchmark quality and drive safety improvements at health care organizations. "Palantir provides tools to make operations and processes more efficient," Perlin said, "so it is really helping us improve our mechanisms for data acquisition, data management and some optimized performance internally within The Joint Commission." Palantir won't have access to The Joint Commission's data, according to Perlin. Their work will be focused on operational processes, like optimizing surveyor schedules. Plus, Palantir's AI tools can help locate data that may not be standardized, allowing The Joint Commission to answer questions more accurately. For example, if The Joint Commission is looking at blood pressure control during delivery on a maternity unit, blood pressure metrics may be recorded in a specific field, or they may be hidden in a free-text patient description. AI can help surface all of that data to determine whether the maternity unit adequately controlled patients' blood pressure. "We see Palantir as a set of tools for us to better support safety and performance improvement—without relinquishing the data to them," Perlin said. 3. Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) Partnership In June, The Joint Commission teamed up with CHAI—a group of more than 3,000 health care organizations and stakeholders, collaborating on guidelines for responsible health AI use—to establish a "suite" of AI best practices playbooks and a new certification for hospitals. "CHAI's lane is really the technology itself, and ours is the organization's governance process for the responsible use of that," Perlin said. He identified three components that are expected to guide the new certification: Is the tool technically valid and reliable? Does it surface the right clinical information? And is it being deployed in the right way (AI tools trained to detect sepsis in adults shouldn't be applied to children, for example). "Organizations can independently set up what they think to be best practices for responsible governance and oversight," Perlin said. "Having come from operations and large systems myself, it's really important to have a set of externally validated standards that demonstrate what 'good' looks like for responsible governance and oversight." The partners' first guidance will be available in fall 2025, followed by the AI certification.
Business Insider
13-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
RBC Capital Keeps Their Hold Rating on TELUS International (CDA) (TIXT)
RBC Capital analyst Daniel Perlin maintained a Hold rating on TELUS International (CDA) (TIXT – Research Report) on May 9 and set a price target of $5.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at $2.98. Protect Your Portfolio Against Market Uncertainty Discover companies with rock-solid fundamentals in TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter. Receive undervalued stocks, resilient to market uncertainty, delivered straight to your inbox. Perlin covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Shift4 Payments, NCR Voyix, and Block. According to TipRanks, Perlin has an average return of -10.6% and a 37.42% success rate on recommended stocks. Currently, the analyst consensus on TELUS International (CDA) is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of $3.88, a 30.20% upside from current levels. In a report released yesterday, Barclays also maintained a Hold rating on the stock with a $3.00 price target. Based on TELUS International (CDA)'s latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $691 million and a GAAP net loss of $54 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $692 million and had a net profit of $38 million Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 62 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is positive on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders buying their shares of TIXT in relation to earlier this year.
Business Insider
13-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
IBEX (IBEX) Gets a Hold from RBC Capital
In a report released on May 9, Daniel Perlin from RBC Capital maintained a Hold rating on IBEX (IBEX – Research Report), with a price target of $31.00. The company's shares closed yesterday at $28.12. Protect Your Portfolio Against Market Uncertainty Discover companies with rock-solid fundamentals in TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter. Receive undervalued stocks, resilient to market uncertainty, delivered straight to your inbox. Perlin covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Shift4 Payments, NCR Voyix, and Block. According to TipRanks, Perlin has an average return of -10.6% and a 37.42% success rate on recommended stocks. The word on The Street in general, suggests a Hold analyst consensus rating for IBEX with a $30.00 average price target, representing a 6.69% upside. In a report released on May 11, Robert W. Baird also downgraded the stock to a Hold with a $30.00 price target. IBEX market cap is currently $408.5M and has a P/E ratio of 13.41. Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 79 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of IBEX in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in February 2025, Robert Thomas Dechant, the CEO of IBEX sold 49,931.00 shares for a total of $1,310,189.44.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Court likely next stop as overhaul of Child Victims Act is signed into law
A bill that lowers damages for survivors of institutional sex abuse was one of more than 140 bills signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Tuesday. (Photo by Bryan P. Sears/Maryland Matters) Lawyers representing men and women who were abused as children while in state custody said newly signed legislation will lead to court challenges and a wave of lawsuits over the next five weeks. Gov. Wes Moore (D) and legislative leaders on Tuesday signed House Bill 1378 into law, which will cut in half potential awards to victims that were promised just two years ago in legislation that was hailed for giving survivors another chance to have their day in court. But that led to claims by thousands of men and women who were sexually abused while in state custody, opening the door to potentially budget-crushing financial awards and sparking the rush to pass HB1378, which takes effect June 1. D. Todd Mathews, an attorney with Bailey & Glasser, said his firm would be part of a challenge to the new law. 'We will vigorously oppose this clearly unconstitutional bill, in order to protect the Survivors, as the State and Governor Moore have clearly failed them,' Mathews said in an email. Washington, D.C.-based Bailey & Glasser is one of nearly two dozen firms representing more than 4,500 plaintiffs. The coalition of firms has been in active negotiations with the Maryland Attorney General's office since 2023. Mathews and Ryan S. Perlin, an attorney at Baltimore-based Bekman, Marder, Hopper, Malarkey & Perlin, said the newly signed law could face several potential constitutional challenges. 'It's all but a certainty that this will be challenged,' Perlin said Tuesday morning. With a June 1 effective date, survivors have until May 31 to file a lawsuit under the old law, which caps damages at $1.5 million per occurrence for private institutions and $890,000 per occurrence against government entities. On June 1, those caps fall to $700,000 and $400,000, respectively. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE Perlin said those reductions, as well as the five-week filing window, will likely be challenged, along with the difference in how the law treats lawsuits against private and public institutions. The bill also caps the fees that can be paid to attorneys representing survivors. 'That will have a chilling effect, making it harder for survivors to find a lawyer who will represent them,' said Perlin, whose firm announced last week that it had filed a new group of lawsuits against Towson-based Calvert Hall College High School under the current law The bill was one of 142 signed into law at the second ceremony following the 2025 session. That second tranche of new laws included bills affecting expungement of criminal records, the Second Look Act and legislation to aid federal workers whose jobs have been eliminated by President Donald Trump. Moore did not comment on the Child Victims Act changes during remarks delivered before the bill signing. When asked for comment, a spokesperson for the office repeated a statement from last week, that 'acknowledged the trauma' survivors have faced, but said the bill would 'continue to allow the survivors to seek justice while preserving the long-term fiscal stability of the state.'' Lisae Jordan, executive director and counsel at Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault, said she hoped the state would make more services available to people who were abused in state facilities. 'House Bill 1378 will save the state a lot of money, but it remains to be seen whether some of the savings will be used to help prevent future abuse or to provide services for survivors who can't prove their case in court,' Jordan said in an email. 'Helping people who were sexually abused while in state custody doesn't require a lawsuit, but it will require more resources.' The muted comment at Tuesday's signing was a vastly different affair than two years ago when Moore praised passage of the Child Victims Act and throngs of survivors traveled to Annapolis for the bill signing. That 2023 law eliminated time restrictions during which survivors of institutional sexual abuse had to file lawsuits. It also set the $1.5 million and $890,000 caps on awards per 'occurrence' of abuse — a term over which plaintiff's attorneys and some lawmakers disagree. At the time, the focus was on the substantial number of cases expected to arise out of the Catholic church sex abuse scandal, and the Archdiocese of Baltimore filed for bankruptcy protection in advance of the 2023 law taking effect. At the same time, hundreds of cases against the state, including the Department of Juvenile Services, began to surface. Lawmakers were warned in January of billions in potential liabilities from an estimated 3,500 cases. Those alone would have dire budgetary consequences. Since then, a coalition of attorneys has said they have nearly 6,000 cases. And those cases are believed to be just the start. Two weeks ago, Levy Konigsberg, a New York-based law firm that is part of the coalition, filed lawsuits on behalf of 221 men and women in connection with sexual abuse allegations at 15 state juvenile detention facilities. The lawsuits bring the number of claims handled by Levy Konigsberg alone to roughly 2,000, according to the firm. Del. C.T. Wilson (D-Charles), who sponsored the 2023 bill, stepped in to author the changes in HB1378, which he called an attempt to ease the potential financial burden to the state while giving survivors the opportunity to seek justice. 'This bill does nothing to change the amounts [government] is going to pay out,' said Perlin, who said lawyers will rush 'thousands of cases' to the courthouses in the next five weeks in order to come in under the current, higher caps. That rush of cases could potentially slow the judicial system and its existing workload of criminal and civil cases to a crawl. It is likely that victims' claims and legal challenges to the new law will move simultaneously. Lawyers could seek a temporary injunction before the end of May, to put the law on hold while courts determine its constitutionality; or attorneys representing the survivors could hold off on a challenge until June 1, when the new law takes effect. A third scenario would bring a challenge to the law after survivors start appealing the resolution of individual cases, according to Perlin. Mathews agreed, adding that scenario could take years to resolve.
