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Lemonade

LMND
26
Insurance - Property & Casualty · Financial Services
Price
$67.18
+2.61 (+4.04%)
Market Cap
$5.16B
Winston Score
26
Winston is worried
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.

Share count rising — dilution

+17.3% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 61.2M (2021) → 71.8M (2025)

Lemonade is an insurance company that sells policies to everyday people using a smartphone app instead of traditional agents. It offers renters, homeowners, pet, life, and car insurance, mainly targeting younger customers who prefer doing everything online. The company runs on artificial intelligence to handle applications and pay out claims quickly, sometimes in seconds.

Lemonade makes money by collecting insurance premiums from policyholders, and it keeps a flat fee while sending leftover money to charities customers choose. It operates primarily in the United States, with some presence in Europe, and had roughly $500 million in annual revenue as of recent reports. The company is still losing money, and its biggest challenge is reaching profitability while managing the risk that claims costs — especially from natural disasters — could exceed what it collects in premiums.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+55.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

+45.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (7%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

7.4%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

5+ years

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

$374M cash & investments at current burn rate

Revenue accelerating

Lemonade grew revenue 55% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

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Quality

Gross Margin
43.1%
Healthy — 43.1% gross margin
Operating Margin
-14.8%
Losing money on operations — -14.8%
ROCE
-5.0%
Weak — -5.0% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+47.0%
Fast-growing sales (47.0% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
0/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
2.4%
Thin free cash flow (2.4%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.35
Conservative — low debt load (0.35)
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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