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WELL Provides Corporate Update on Financial Performance of Acquired Canadian Clinics and Confirms Favourable Positioning Amidst Escalation of Tariffs between the US and Canada

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WELL provided updated comprehensive ROIC(1) metrics for all clinics acquired in years 2022, 2023, and 2024 based on exit run-rates in 2024. The results show ROIC figures of 41%, 24%, and 28% respectively.WELL provides comprehensive performance metrics for all Canadian clinics acquired in years 2022, 2023, and 2024 based on exit run-rates in 2024. The results show effective multiples of 2.0x, 2.3x and 2.6x Adj. EBITDA respectively.WELL’s overall M&A prospect pipeline now stands at 165 clinics generating over $440 million of annual revenue at approximately double-digit Adj. EBITDA margins. WELL’s pipeline of signed LOIs currently stands at 19 clinics reflecting approximately $50 million in revenue at approximately double-digit Adj. EBITDA margins.WELL also disclosed that it has no exposure to U.S. tariffs against Canadian goods and any potential future tariffs imposed on services would not harm the Company given that it currently does not offer its healthcare software platform capabilities or care delivery capabilities on a cross-border basis In addition, WELL has significant exposure to the U.S. dollar as over 60% of its revenues, Adj. EBITDA and cashflow is generated in U.S. dollars by WELL’s US based entities.

VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 3, 2025 /CNW/ – WELL Health Technologies Corp. (TSX: WELL) (OTCQX: WHTCF) (the “Company” or “WELL”), a digital healthcare company focused on positively impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, is pleased to announce key updates regarding the financial performance of its acquired clinics, an update on its current clinic prospect pipeline, and its positioning in light of potential U.S.-Canada trade tariffs.

WELL’s Recent Clinic Cohorts Demonstrating Strong Profitability and Growth

WELL continues to enhance its acquired clinics by implementing its proprietary technology-driven transformation strategy. By tech enabling clinicians, improving digital workflows and centralizing administrative services, WELL has increased efficiency and profitability across its expanding network. This has resulted in time and resources being returned to care providers who are able to increasingly focus on providing care and improving patient outcomes.

Hamed Shahbazi, Founder and CEO of WELL, commented “We are very pleased to share these metrics. The results clearly show that our clinic ROIC(1) metrics have significantly benefited by our clinic transformation program and consistently delivered strong financial performance. We are now taking steps to significantly increase our pace of growth in 2025 to meet our previously stated future long-term goal of reaching $4 billion in revenues from Canadian sources. We continue to execute on our goals by leveraging our technology and expertise to compress acquisition multiples and improve free cashflow generation reinforcing WELL’s position as a top-tier healthcare services provider and improving the sustainability of the Canadian healthcare ecosystem.”

The following table summarizes key performance data from the Company’s Canadian clinic M&A program:

Clinic Cohort

2022

2023

2024

No. of Clinics Purchased 

7

29

95 (includes 59
licensees)

Aggregate Adj. EBITDA Margin
Improvement (bps) since purchase

+585

+658

+133

Average Acquisition Multiple of
Adj. EBITDA at Purchase

5.2x

nmf(2)

3.5x

Average Effective Multiple of
Adj. EBITDA at Current Run-Rate

2.0x

2.3x

2.6x

ROIC(1)

41 %

24 %

28 %

3-year Average ROIC(1) = 30%

Expanding M&A Pipeline and Growth Outlook

WELL’s acquisition strategy continues to drive significant growth, with a record-sized pipeline of opportunities in the Canadian healthcare sector. The Company’s M&A prospect pipeline now includes 165 clinics generating over $440 million in annualized revenue at approximately double-digit Adj. EBITDA margins. The Company’s near-term pipeline includes 19 signed LOIs representing approximately $50M in revenue at approximately double-digit Adj. EBITDA margins.

WELL’s clinic acquisition strategy has accelerated significantly, making 2024 its most active year for clinic acquisitions in company history. The size of each new acquisition cohort has grown, and WELL expects this momentum to expand even further. Moving forward, the 2024 cohort alone is anticipated to contribute approximately the same amount of Adj. EBITDA as the combined 2022 and 2023 cohorts, making it the most Adj. EBITDA-additive acquisition year in our Canadian Clinic program since 2021.

This level of expansion reflects WELL’s ability to efficiently identify, acquire, and integrate high-quality clinics at attractive valuations. Importantly, incremental ROICs on new acquisitions are materially higher than the company-wide average, reinforcing the growing value of tuck-in acquisitions. With WELL’s acquisition platform now maturing, the opportunity to integrate and optimize additional clinics is greater than ever. This ROIC inflection is being observed across our entire Canadian Clinics business care clinics, demonstrating the scalability of WELL’s operational improvements and capital allocation discipline.

WELL’s Business Model Resilient to U.S.-Canada Tariffs

WELL can confirm that there are no material tariff threats to its business today as it does not engage in cross-border sales between Canada and the United States. While tariffs may contribute to a challenging macroeconomic environment, WELL operates in the healthcare sector, which is inherently defensive, recession proof and insulated from much of the volatility affecting other industries.

Even if the tariff matter were to escalate and include services, WELL would still not be materially exposed as the Company does not offer its healthcare software platform capabilities or care delivery services on a cross-border basis between the two countries. Additionally, WELL does not expect any material supply chain impacts to any of its operations, as per the impacted list shared by the Department of Finance Canada. Furthermore, WELL has significant exposure to the US dollar as over 60% of its revenues, Adj. EBITDA and cashflow is generated in US Dollars by WELL’s US based entities which also positions the Company favourably in the event of currency volatility.

Eva Fong, Chief Financial Officer of WELL, commented “Our business is built on a strong, resilient foundation, and we are well-positioned to withstand any macroeconomic challenges that may arise. Even if the potential tariffs between the U.S. and Canada escalates to include services in addition to goods, this would not affect our operations, as our technology and care delivery services are not sold across the border. We also believe that the current environment may create a surge of ‘buy Canadian’ optimism which we believe could significantly boost opportunities for our WELLSTAR technology platform as it does compete from time to time with US companies for material Canadian public sector contracts.”

Footnotes:

WELL defines Pre-Tax Unlevered ROIC for its Canadian clinic cohorts, as the Adjusted EBITDA of the underlying businesses, inclusive of clinic transformation costs, divided by the total M&A consideration, including upfront cash, share consideration, and realized and future earn-out payments. The Total M&A consideration used in the Pre-Tax Unlevered ROIC calculation excludes any allocation of corporate overhead, Property, Plant & Equipment, and Working Capital. The non-GAAP financial measures included in this non-GAAP ratio includes Adjusted EBITDA. This non-GAAP ratio is not a standardized financial measure used to prepare the Company’s financial statements and may not be a comparable to similar financial measures disclosed by other issuers. The Company uses these non-GAAP standardized measures as supplemental indicators of its financial and operating performance which the Company believes allows for meaningful analysis of trends in its clinic business.The Average Acquisition Multiple of EBITDA at Purchase for the 2023 clinic cohort is not meaningful, as the aggregate Adj. EBITDA for the 2023 clinic cohort was negative, resulting in a negative valuation multiple.

WELL HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

Per: “Hamed Shahbazi”

Hamed Shahbazi

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director

About WELL Health Technologies Corp.

WELL’s mission is to tech-enable healthcare providers. We do this by developing the best technologies, services, and support available, which ensures healthcare providers are empowered to positively impact patient outcomes. WELL’s comprehensive healthcare and digital platform includes extensive front and back-office management software applications that help physicians run and secure their practices. WELL’s solutions enable more than 38,000 healthcare providers between the US and Canada and power the largest owned and operated healthcare ecosystem in Canada with more than 200 clinics supporting primary care, specialized care, and diagnostic services. In the United States WELL’s solutions are focused on specialized markets such as the gastrointestinal market, women’s health, primary care, and mental health. WELL is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “WELL” and on the OTC Exchange under the symbol “WHTCF”. To learn more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company 

 

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Solestial to be Featured in Google Workspace Big Game Commercial

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Space startup to represent Arizona in Google’s “50 States, 50 Stories” campaign

TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Tempe space startup Solestial, Inc. (“Solestial”), will be featured in a Google Workspace commercial scheduled to air Sunday February 9, on Fox networks in the Arizona market during America’s most-watched football game. The ad, which features Solestial CEO Stan Herasimenka and other employees, showcases the cutting-edge solar technology for space being developed by Solestial and how the company is using Google’s AI tool, Gemini.

The company was handpicked by Google to represent Arizona as part of its “50 States, 50 Stories” campaign, which features 50 small businesses from across the United States. Google’s goal for the 30-second ad was to select a wide array of businesses from different locations and industries and highlight the many ways customers, like Solestial, are using AI.

“We were honored to be selected from among many innovative Arizona technology companies for Google’s campaign. It’s every business’s dream to be featured in a commercial during football’s premier event,” said Solestial CEO, Stan Herasimenka. “We are hopeful that the media attention will increase awareness of our next-generation silicon solar technology within the space industry, federal agencies, and the military. Beyond that, our team is really looking forward to seeing the commercial air on game day. It’s a company milestone none of us will ever forget.”

Solestial’s Google Workspace commercial, and all “50 states, 50 stories” commercials, are available on the Google Workspace website and on YouTube.

About Solestial

Solestial exists to deliver abundant energy in space. The company’s breakthrough technology is a silicon solar cell engineered for space to self-cure radiation damage under sunlight at operating temperatures as low as 65°C. Solestial solar cells are packaged in an ultrathin, low-mass, flexible solar power module designed to withstand up to 10 years in a variety of destinations in space. The flexible solar power modules can be produced on automated machines resulting in lower production costs than traditional III-V multijunction solar products.

From today’s satellite constellations and research projects to tomorrow’s lunar settlements and services in space, Solestial’s innovative technology represents a paradigm shift for space solar; an affordable, scalable solution to power sustained development. Solestial is a US company manufacturing solar cells and flexible solar power modules in Tempe, Arizona. Investors include space industry leaders including AE Ventures and Airbus Ventures. To learn more, visit the Solestial website or follow Solestial on social media.

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Lumen Technologies to Attend Investor Conferences

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DENVER, Feb. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Chris Stansbury, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), will attend the following investor conferences:

JP Morgan Global High Yield & Leveraged Finance Conference on February 25.Raymond James Annual Institutional Investors Conference on March 3.Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on March 4.Deutsche Bank Annual Media, Internet & Telecom Conference on March 11.New Street BCG Connectivity Conference on March 26.

Live webcast links to each of the investor presentations will be made available on the Lumen Investor Relations website at https://ir.lumen.com/events-and-presentations.

About Lumen Technologies 
Lumen is unleashing the world’s digital potential. We ignite business growth by connecting people, data, and applications – quickly, securely, and effortlessly. As the trusted network for AI, Lumen uses the scale of our network to help companies realize AI’s full potential. From metro connectivity to long-haul data transport to our edge cloud, security, managed service, and digital platform capabilities, we meet our customers’ needs today and as they build for tomorrow.  

For additional news and insights visit news.lumen.com, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies.  

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ASAP Utilities wins ‘Best Microsoft Excel Add-in’ Award at the Global Excel Summit 2025

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LONDON, Feb. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — ASAP Utilities has won the ‘Best Microsoft Excel Add-in’ award at the Global Excel Summit 2025. The winners were chosen through a comprehensive process that included public nominations, expert evaluations by a panel of leading Excel experts, and final voting by the global Excel community.

The Global Excel Summit, the world’s largest event for Excel users and experts, brings together thousands from around the world to share ideas, improve skills, and learn about the latest trends in Excel.

The Global Excel Awards, organized by the Global Excel Summit, celebrate excellence within the Excel community across five categories. ASAP Utilities won in the ‘Best Microsoft Excel Add-in’ category for its many tools that extend Excel’s capabilities, enhancing productivity and efficiency. Other awards categories include Rising Star in the Excel Industry, Most Innovative Use of Excel, Best LAMBDA, and Best Global Excel Summit 2025 In-Person Session.

“Winning this award is a tremendous honor and a significant compliment from the Excel community. Since 1999, we have been committed to helping Excel users by continuously developing tools that save time and perform tasks that Excel alone cannot,” said Bastien Mensink, the founder of ASAP Utilities.

Helping Excel users worldwide

Nearly a million users rely on ASAP Utilities, an essential tool for Excel users worldwide. It is also one of the few Excel add-ins available in ten languages, making it accessible to users everywhere.

ASAP Utilities is available in two editions, so everyone can benefit from working faster and accomplishing more in Excel. The Home & Student Edition is free for personal use, for students, and for charitable organizations like UNICEF and the Red Cross. The Business Edition is a one-time purchase for companies and government organizations, with a fully functional 90-day free trial to try all the features.

For more information about the Global Excel Awards, visit:  https://globalexcelsummit.com/global-excel-awards

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