Oscar Health - Tech Health Insurance Company

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Alright, here it comes! :slight_smile:

Oscar Health is an American health insurance company that combines both insurance and technology. It offers clear, easy-to-use health plans for individuals, families, and small businesses. In addition, the company’s own digital services, such as remote doctor appointments and wellness-tracking applications, simplify daily healthcare and “reward” healthy lifestyles. According to the company, their goal is to make insurance understandable and smooth.


More from an investor’s perspective:

Oscar has grown strongly in terms of membership and revenue. The company’s advantages include expansion through successful acquisitions and its proprietary technology platform, which opens new revenue streams and strengthens its competitive position in a somewhat old-fashioned industry.

The company’s challenges include achieving profitability, a strict regulatory environment, and laws that can lead to unexpected additional costs or challenging business model changes. Competition in the industry is fierce, forcing continuous innovation.

The outlook shows growth potential, especially in digital services, and on the other hand, certain legislative changes may also benefit Oscar. Success partly depends on whether Oscar Health can leverage its strengths, such as its technology, and manage various cost and regulatory risks. The markets in which Oscar operates are also highly competitive.

Ideally, it goes something like this: the company successfully continues to modernize health insurance operations with its mobile platform, making joining, claims, and managing related matters easier, which will increasingly be reflected in future growth and profitability. At the same time, growth and profitability are being improved by AI-powered infrastructures that increasingly succeed in lightening the cost burden while creating an even better customer experience, which then leads to stronger membership growth and increased partnerships.

A somewhat old-fashioned industry needs innovation. :slight_smile:

Not a fact, but my own gut feeling is that Oscar Health would be a relatively “traded” (treifattu) stock. :thinking:


Reading material

From Q2 materials
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From this, one can see that Oscar Health is relatively small, still has a high valuation, but also a low debt level and a better net margin than its competitors. :slight_smile:

https://x.com/TrendSpider/status/1954520607653089452
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Let’s add this one here too :slight_smile:

https://x.com/TheTechInvest/status/1954492255257145755
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10.8.2025

Current 3/31/2025 12/31/2024 9/30/2024 6/30/2024 3/31/2024
Market Cap 3.99B 3.32B 3.37B 5.24B 3.75B 3.42B
EDIT: EV removed, was incorrect
Forward P/E 18.45 19.53
Price/Sales 0.36 0.38 0.46 0.77 0.58 0.56
Price/Book 3.44 3.28 2.90 4.61 3.70 4.37
EV/Revenue 0.16 0.23 0.30 0.45 0.28 0.31

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(Investing.com, Yahoo, Google)

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Excellent opening, thanks @Sijoittaja-alokas :slightly_smiling_face:

If oscr interests you as an investment, here’s a must-watch. An interview with the CEO, where his success in previous companies, how he became CEO, and his vision for the company’s future are discussed.

It’s in my own portfolio.

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@Sijoittaja-alokas, I don’t know where you got that EV for the table, but it’s wrong. For insurance companies, the traditional formula (market cap + debts - cash) doesn’t work, because in addition to debts, future insurance claims are liabilities, and on the other hand, the cash reserves on the balance sheet are tied to paying future compensations.

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Aaa, thank you very much for the correction! :slight_smile:

Earlier, I made a somewhat similar mistake with another company, concerning figures related to the results, which then also caused problems with other figures (my figures would have been good figures :sweat_smile: ). I then had to remove them completely, as I couldn’t get them right anymore.


Thank you very much! :blush: :pray:

I’m only halfway through this, but so far it’s been very clear and interesting :+1: and I added subtitles because it’s sometimes hard to understand speech, especially in English. :slight_smile:

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Yahoo Finance presents EV at around :smile:

Similarly, on investment Twitter, one sees excitement where all incoming insurance premiums are counted as ‘fcf’.

Of course, float has value, but it’s a bit misunderstood.

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It was in another place too and they went through. :sweat_smile:

I’ve sometimes looked at the P/E ratio, for example, on Investing.com :sweat_smile:. If you use it in Finnish, you sometimes get surprises. (see below). Then again, sometimes when I’ve calculated some numbers into a spreadsheet, I’ve often messed up almost the entire table. :sweat_smile:

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Oscar Q2

I’ll also include Oscar’s Q2 here, as its release was only a short time ago (6.8.). There are already some excerpts from the company’s Q2 materials above, but mainly from the numbers.

Oscar’s result declined more than expected, but on the other hand, the number of customers grew significantly year-on-year. High risk adjustment costs eroded profitability, but the company maintained its previous guidance, and the company’s management also saw long-term potential.

According to the CEO, a return to profitability is expected next year. The share of administrative expenses in revenue is decreasing, but otherwise, the profitability of insurance operations weakened due to the high market morbidity, which is interesting. A strong cash position was highlighted, providing room for maneuver, and indeed, the optimization of the cost structure continues, while simultaneously aiming for market expansion.

https://x.com/ondrejslunecko/status/1953251026795909388
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Let’s add this here if someone doesn’t know, there’s a buzz around Oscar Health because the company has a strong connection to the Trump family: I’ll add a snippet of AI babble here as a continuation:

Oscar Health, a health insurance company, is connected to the Trump administration through Joshua Kushner, who co-founded the company and is the brother of Jared Kushner, a senior advisor to then-President Donald Trump. Joshua Kushner is a managing partner at Thrive Capital, the venture capital firm that invested in Oscar Health. While Jared Kushner worked in the Trump administration, he severed ties with Thrive Capital, but the relationship between the Kushner brothers and Oscar Health has raised some questions about potential conflicts of interest, particularly regarding Saudi Arabia.

Oscar and Hy-Vee pharmacy/store chain’s partnership launches.

Excerpt:

Finding the right healthcare coverage should be as easy as buying milk at Hy-Vee, said Mark Bertolini, CEO of Oscar Health.

$0 care at Hy-Vee Health Exemplar Care clinics: unlimited access to primary care, 24/7 urgent care, labs, x-rays, select medications, and more – at no cost. This service normally retails for $2,400 for a family of four per year.

EDIT: So, this is now one of those ICHRA market aids, which should balance the business as ACA is under pressure.

‘Employer-backed coverage in the individual market, also known as ICHRA, can save businesses 20% to 30%3 and employees $500 to $1,000 per year.4 5 Hy-Vee and Oscar plan to bring the healthcare benefit to other markets over time.’

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The company significantly improved its results and losses decreased from the previous quarter. Revenue grew strongly from last year and continued its steady rise from the previous quarter as well.

Membership and income have increased, even though revenue fell slightly short of expectations. Profitability is moving in the right direction thanks to better cost discipline, especially, reportedly, in medical expenses and administrative costs.

The market is likely reacting positively to the results because the results clearly improved and growth appears to be continuing steadily.

https://x.com/earnings_guy/status/1986388308843180045


Revenue fell short of expectations, but looking at the big picture, it looks good.

https://x.com/Mindset4Money_X/status/1986430420423200964



Company’s own materials:


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Trump spoke the course down. I myself imagined that the 14.82 GTC trade left in August would never close. So I got half of the shares in August, and today the IBRK app alerted me that I got the rest. Of course, I took advantage of the dip and bought another similar batch.

There’s plenty of buzz and opinions on X. I see this as Trump talking so much nonsense that it shouldn’t be taken seriously. Even that there will be immediate peace in Ukraine when he is elected. Yeah, right. Maybe 5% of Trump’s statements come true. That’s why this is a buying opportunity.

Choose yours.

https://x.com/search?q=%24oscr&src=typeahead_click&f=top

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Oscar’s guidance does not take ACA subsidies into account.

“We are well positioned to expand margins and return to profitiability in 2026”

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Oscar’s CEO wants consumers in charge. Essentially the R party’s agenda. Video.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/11/13/oscar-health-ceo-mark-bertolini-on-fixing-u-s-health-care-we-need-to-put-consumers-in-charge.html

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In the tweet below, the tweeter expresses that the company is significantly undervalued.

Management expects earnings development to improve in the coming years, and potential additional support could further strengthen the outlook. The valuation seems moderate, if growth materializes as expected. :slight_smile:

https://x.com/thexcapitalist/status/1993012957941579951


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