Porch Group, Inc. functions as a technology company, delivering a comprehensive software platform across both the United States and Canada. Its business ...
Porch Group operates at the intersection of vertical software, home services, and residential insurance. The company’s strategy is built around serving the full homeownership lifecycle: helping professionals win and manage work, helping consumers coordinate home-related services, and providing insurance and protection products after a home is purchased. This positioning gives ...Porch Group operates at the intersection of vertical software, home services, and residential insurance. The company’s strategy is built around serving the full homeownership lifecycle: helping professionals win and manage work, helping consumers coordinate home-related services, and providing insurance and protection products after a home is purchased. This positioning gives Porch access to data and customer relationships across several stages of the housing ecosystem, including home inspection, mortgage and closing activity, moving, maintenance, repairs, remodeling, warranty protection, and property insurance.
The company’s Vertical Software segment develops specialized applications for home-service professionals. Its portfolio includes Floify for mortgage and lending workflows, HireAHelper for moving services, ISN for inspection and service-business operations, iRoofing for roofing contractors, Palm-Tech for inspection reporting, Rynoh for transaction and escrow-related services, and V12 for data and marketing capabilities. Porch.com supports connections among homeowners, homebuyers, and service providers. These products generally use subscription, transaction, referral, lead-generation, or service-related revenue models. The software proposition is based on improving customer acquisition, scheduling, workflow management, compliance, payments, reporting, and business visibility for fragmented home-service markets.
The Insurance segment focuses primarily on homeowners insurance and related protection products. Porch has used a combination of a proprietary risk-bearing carrier, independent agency distribution, and underwriting entities for home warranties. Associated brands include Homeowners of America, American Home Protect, and Elite Insurance Group. The broader product offering can include property and casualty, residential, automotive, flood, umbrella, and home warranty coverage. Insurance revenue and profitability depend heavily on premium growth, renewal rates, pricing, catastrophe exposure, claims frequency and severity, reinsurance, underwriting discipline, and regulatory conditions. Consequently, this segment can have more volatile financial results than a conventional software business.
Porch was founded by Matt Ehrlichman in 2011 and subsequently launched its consumer-facing home-services platform. Ehrlichman serves as chief executive officer, chairman, and founder. The company became publicly traded on Nasdaq in January 2020. Its headquarters are in Seattle, Washington, and supplied data reports approximately 799 full-time employees, placing it in the 501-to-1,000 employee range.
From a financial perspective, the supplied trailing data indicates meaningful scale but continued execution challenges. Reported trailing revenue per share was approximately $4.65, while net income per share was negative, and the company had a negative net profit margin of roughly 1.1%. Gross margin was approximately 71.6%, reflecting the software component and the economics of insurance-related operations, while the reported EBITDA margin was about 16.9%. Porch reported positive operating cash flow and free cash flow to equity in the supplied data, but leverage, insurance liabilities, negative tangible asset value, and a negative book value create balance-sheet complexity. The company’s principal long-term objectives are to expand software adoption, improve retention and monetization, scale insurance profitably, control claims and operating costs, strengthen capital efficiency, and ultimately produce more consistent earnings and cash flow.
John Campbell : Good afternoon, and thank you for participating in Porch Group's Second Quarter 2026 Conference Call. Earlier today, we issued our press release and filed our related Form 8-K with the SEC. The earnings release and today's presentation are available on our Investor Relations website at ir.porchgroup.com. Before we begin, I'd like to review the company's safe harbor statement within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which provides important cautions regarding forward-looking statements. Today's discussion, including responses to your questions, reflect management's views as of today, July 29, 2026. We undertake no obligation to update or revise these remarks. We will make forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. Please refer to the information on this slide and our SEC filings for additional detail. We will also reference certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included in today's earnings release available at ir.porchgroup.com. A replay of this webcast will be available shortly after the call, again, on our Investor Relations site. Joining me here today are Matt Ehrlichman, Porch's CEO, Chairman and Founder; Shawn Tabak, Porch's CFO; and Matthew Neagle, Porch's COO. With that, I'll turn the call over to Matt for his key updates.
Matt Ehrlichman : Thank you, John. Good afternoon, everyone. This will be another fun call here today. We are pleased to report a fantastic second quarter where we again delivered results that exceeded expectations and are raising guidance substantially across the board. We generated positive net income attributable to Porch in the quarter and expect that to be true for the full year 2026, 2027 and the years ongoing. I was excited to share this. Overall, now with Q2 revenue growth, excluding the reciprocal, at 23% and adjusted EBITDA margin, excluding the reciprocal, at 30%, we are now a Rule of 50 company. Insurance Services, our core largest and fastest growing business stands out even more with 38% revenue growth and a 48% adjusted EBITDA margin this quarter. Policy growth at our insurance business grew by the same 38% year-over-year. This is a big deal. Our Insurance Service business generates its economics based, yes, on reciprocal written premium volume but also meaningfully based on total number of policies given the policy fees that are charged to each policyholder. We managed to our financial results based both on premium and policy count, which I'm not sure is fully appreciated. Incremental margins at Insurance Services are exceptional, which you can see based on the fact that incremental revenues flowed almost fully into higher adjusted EBITDA. For our entire company, adjusted EBITDA, excluding the reciprocal, grew 2.5x year-over-year. The progress we've made on profitability is strengthening our balance sheet profile. We're …