Texas Capital Securities Starts Porch Group Inc. (PRCH) at Buy

Texas Capital Securities analyst Randy Binner initiates coverage on Porch Group Inc. (NASDAQ: PRCH) with a Buy rating and a price target of $20.00.

The analyst comments "We are initiating coverage of Porch Group Inc. (PRCH) with a Buy rating and $20 price target. Porch is a technology enabled home insurance platform. 75% of revenue is fee income earned through the management of an insurance reciprocal exchange. Fees are earned by PRCH while insurance risk is taken by the reciprocal. Our financial estimates for PRCH are ex-reciprocal. The company leverages proprietary homeowner data to better price policies. This data is gathered in large part from the company’s ownership of and access to software that drives over 40% of home inspection reports in the U.S. each year. The company also offers software, data, and consumer services products to companies that operate around the home buying process. We use a peer group of high growth insurance distribution and technology providers to target 13.5x EV/2028E EBITDA, which yields a price target of $20. This multiple is a 10% premium to the peer group due to 24% 2028E revenue growth and 42% EBITDA margin in the insurance services segment. PRCH’s 2028E 65% Rule of 40 score compares to peers at 44%. Reciprocal growth should be supported by 20%+ annual policies written growth, as agent expansion stair steps higher. Debt to EBITDA is moving from over 5x at YE25 to 3x at YE26, in our model. While the P/C market is broadly seeing lower pricing as capital capacity exceeds insurable risk, there are pockets of firmer pricing for homeowners insurance in the U.S. due to ongoing carrier retrenchment, which is the result of elevated attritional and catastrophe loss trends. We believe PRCH is well positioned to take advantage of this market opportunity. "

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Shares of Porch Group Inc. closed at $16.64 yesterday.

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