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Business Insider
6 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
FIGS (FIGS) Gets a Hold from TD Cowen
TD Cowen analyst John Kernan maintained a Hold rating on FIGS (FIGS – Research Report) on June 12 and set a price target of $4.00. The company's shares closed last Friday at $5.03. Confident Investing Starts Here: Kernan covers the Consumer Cyclical sector, focusing on stocks such as Ralph Lauren, Deckers Outdoor, and Dick's Sporting Goods. According to TipRanks, Kernan has an average return of 8.9% and a 51.62% success rate on recommended stocks. FIGS has an analyst consensus of Hold, with a price target consensus of $4.69. Based on FIGS' latest earnings release for the quarter ending March 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $124.9 million and a GAAP net loss of $102 thousand. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $119.29 million and had a net profit of $1.44 million
The Hill
12-06-2025
- Health
- The Hill
‘The Pitt's' Noah Wyle tells Congress: Health care workers are facing a ‘crisis'
He plays a doctor on TV, but Noah Wyle is making a pitch for real-life health care workers at the Capitol, meeting with lawmakers about legislation addressing burnout, mental health and more. 'I've spent the bulk of my adult life playing an emergency room physician, but I am here today with the people who really do the work for a living, and to share some of the pressures and struggles that they're facing,' Wyle, who stars as Dr. Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch on Max's 'The Pitt,' said as he led a panel discussion on Thursday at the Cannon House Office Building. 'Health care professionals today are navigating chronic understaffing. They are losing hours to red tape and administrative tasks. Many are facing mental health struggles with limited institutional support and financial pressure that makes it feel impossible to stay. It's not sustainable,' Wyle, 54, said. He said that growing up with a mom who worked as a registered nurse gave him an 'up close and personal look at how demanding this job can be. And I've learned in recent years how much harder this job has become.' The 'ER' alum's mom, Marjorie Speer, joined her son along with more than a dozen health care workers at the event. Wyle, who came to Washington with the health care apparel company, FIGS, was poised to meet with lawmakers to urge them to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act. The bill's proponents say it would help support the mental health of frontline health care providers through federal programs and training and would reduce the risk of suicide and burnout. 'This is not a workforce issue. This is a patient health care issue. This is a national health care crisis, and that is why we are here: To listen, and to learn and to talk about what can change when we take these stories seriously and work together constructively on them in a bipartisan way,' the actor said. 'Because if we don't have a healthy and functioning health care workforce, we don't have health care at all,' Wyle said. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), who noted that he was one of two pharmacists in Congress, told the group, 'I've seen health care. I've seen it firsthand, and I've seen the stress. I've seen the work that goes into health care, and the work and the stress that health care workers have, and it's something that needs to be addressed.' 'When it comes down to it, whether you're Republican, or Democrat or independent, we all want the same thing when it comes to health care: We want accessible, affordable, quality health care,' Carter said. 'We've got to be there, and we've got to make sure that we take the stigma out of this situation and that we enable people to seek help that they need,' Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said, mentioning he's faced his 'own little journey in this [health care] space' for the last five years after being diagnosed with long COVID-19. Asked if it was harder to play a doctor on the small screen or to press lawmakers in a divided Congress to pass legislation, Wyle told ITK with a grin, 'This is definitely more fun.' 'This is an incredible opportunity to come to Washington to be an advocate and sit on this panel with these people — it's an incredible honor for me,' he said, adding he was especially grateful to share the experience with his mom. 'I think my day job is harder and this is more rewarding,' he said. During a more lighthearted moment, Wyle also divulged which lawmaker he'd want to play. 'I don't want to pick favorites here,' the Emmy-nominated performer told ITK, before saying matter-of-factly, 'Abraham Lincoln.' Someone in the crowd exclaimed in response: 'You've got the beard for it!'
CBS News
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Actor Noah Wyle plays a doctor on TV. He's also advocating for health care workers like his mom
Noah Wyle, who stars in medical drama, wants more support for health care workers like his mom Actor Noah Wyle, known for playing medical professionals in TV shows from "ER" to "The Pitt," is using his career experiences and personal connection to the health care industry to help advocate change for frontline workers. Alongside his mom — who had been a nurse for more than four decades — he says he's lobbying for legislation to improve their lives when it comes to staffing shortages and burnout. "A lot of these people have been in these tours of duty nonstop for five years without a break," said Wyle, who stars as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch on "The Pitt." Wyle and his mom, Marjorie Wyle-Katz, are on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., this week with a group organized by FIGS, a health care apparel company, advocating for three bills. "One is to pass and fund the Lorna Breen Act … it is geared towards making evidence-based mental health resources available to frontline workers," Wyle explained. A second bill would offer a tax credit to frontline workers, he said, "where there hasn't been one before to offset some of the pay disparity." The third piece of legislation would relieve the administrative burden put on health care workers. "This is not just a workforce problem, this is a patient care problem. The trickle down of these things not being enacted will affect all of us eventually," Wyle said. Wyle-Katz told "CBS Mornings" that nurses are advocates for their patients, and that she believes they are not adequately compensated. "Nurses can't bill for their time and their skills. Whenever there's a budget cut, the nurses are the first to go." Beyond finances, Wyle-Katz expressed concerns about safety in the workplace for nurses and health care workers. "When patients come to the hospital, they're either injured or sick, and they're very afraid. They're not seen often in a timely manner, which leads to frustration, which escalates to anger," she said. Wyle's career on health care TV shows Wyle, who starred in "ER" for more than a decade, said he wanted to create "The Pitt" to show what it's like to work as a frontline health care worker and the toll it's taken on medical professionals, both mentally and physically, following the COVID-19 pandemic. "This was intended to be a love letter to frontline workers, health care workers, to let them feel very seen and heard right now," Wyle said. "'ER' was a wonderful depiction of health care in America pre-COVID, but there hadn't really been a show that was addressing what was happening post-COVID yet." Wyle said he is thankful for his mom, who he jokingly said has always been there to ensure accuracy. "She's got a whole army out there working on her behalf to point out my discrepancies," he said. "He always says that I called him at 11:01 p.m. and told him what he did wrong. Now since, through the internet, now he has about 16 million moms who can tell him," Wyle-Katz added. "I want to tell you how much I admire Noah, and all the people on "The Pitt," for bringing health care to the forefront and all the crises happening now in our health care system and for making their show a platform for change," she said.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
‘The Pitt' Star Noah Wyle Calls on Congress to Help Health Care Workers: ‘These Aren't Partisan Issues'
'The Pitt' star Noah Wyle announced that he will be going in front of Congress to call for greater legislative and financial support for America's struggling health care workers. In an op-ed published Tuesday by USA Today, the actor, who has become deeply familiar with the health care industry through his roles on 'ER' and 'The Pitt,' revealed that he plans to travel to Capitol Hill this week with ambassadors of FIGS, an apparel company dedicated to supporting and standing up for health care workers. He will join 18 health care professionals and his mother, a retired nurse, on the trip to Washington. 'Since ['The Pitt'] premiered, I've heard from countless health care workers who've told me they finally feel seen,' Wyle wrote. 'Their stories echo the same themes: exhaustion, compassion and a system that threatens to make their life's work unsustainable.' In Washington, Wyle and his fellow advocates will ask Congress to act on the lack of mental health support, as well as the administrative burden and financial strain, that health care workers are struggling with right now. Wyle and co. are specifically seeking the reauthorization and renewed funding of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, which was enacted with bipartisan support in 2022 but expired in 2024. The act sets aside funding for both federal mental health programs for health care workers and financial grants designed to strengthen peer support, training programs and encourage cultural change at an institutional level. The group will also be calling on Congress to move forward with reforms that are meant to take clinical judgment out of the hands of insurance companies and back into those of health care workers. 'Administrative red tape is strangling the system. Physicians and their staff spend nearly two full business days each week dealing with prior authorization – essentially asking insurance companies for permission to treat their patients,' Wyle explained. Finally, Wyle said he plans to address the financial issues plaguing health care workers' lives. Citing one FIGS ambassador's experience working 80-hour weeks while barely being able to afford groceries, Wyle announced his intention to champion the Awesome Humans Act, which is a proposed federal tax credit intended to provide health care workers with some much-needed financial relief. 'Our message is simple: Without a supported, protected and fairly treated workforce, there is no patient care,' Wyle argued. 'These aren't partisan issues. They're practical ones. And they're urgent. Because when our health care professionals are burned out, buried in paperwork or forced to leave the field altogether, we all pay the price.' 'I'm not a policymaker. I'm not a clinician. But I've spent my career listening to those who are, and I've seen the difference they make when it matters most,' the 'Pitt' star concluded. 'To anyone who's ever benefited from the knowledge, care and courage of a health care professional, now's the time to show up for them and take action. They've had our backs. It's time we have theirs.' The post 'The Pitt' Star Noah Wyle Calls on Congress to Help Health Care Workers: 'These Aren't Partisan Issues' appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
‘The Pitt's' Noah Wyle to make push for health care workers at Capitol
Noah Wyle is heading to the pit of political power, with a visit to Capitol Hill to push for funding for programs aimed at improving mental health services for health care workers. 'The Pitt' and former 'ER' star will touch down in Washington on Thursday to lead a panel discussion at the Cannon House Office Building focused on the 'daily mental health, financial, and bureaucratic challenges for doctors and nurses today.' Wyle will be joined by his mom, Marjorie Speer, a retired nurse, along with more than a dozen health care professionals. The 54-year-old actor, who's coming to the nation's capital with the health care apparel company and advocacy group FIGS, will press lawmakers to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act. Proponents of the bipartisan legislation say it would help support the mental health of frontline health care providers through federal programs and training and would reduce the risk of suicide and burnout. 'These aren't partisan issues. They're practical ones. And they're urgent. Because when our health care professionals are burned out, buried in paperwork or forced to leave the field altogether, we all pay the price,' Wyle wrote in a USA Today op-ed on Tuesday. 'Our message is simple: Without a supported, protected and fairly treated workforce, there is no patient care. Whatever other important issues are being debated, this has to be a priority,' he said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
