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| During 2023, we grew revenue significantly faster than TGP from $120 million in 2022 to $210 million in 2023, an increase of 75% |
| In 2024, we expect to realize additional benefit to our gross loss ratio as previous rate and underwriting actions earn into our financials as well as significantly lower losses from cat events due to reduced exposure and higher deductibles |
| In two short years, we have nearly doubled our total generated premium from $606 million to $1.1 billion and more than doubled our revenue from $91 million to $210 million, all while lowering fixed expenses and improving the gross loss ratio on our Hippo Home Insurance Program by approximately 40 percentage points |
| We expect revenue to grow to more than $340 million |
| Finally, we expect minimum cash and investments at the time we turn adjusted EBITDA positive to meet more than $400 million, up significantly from our previous guidance |
| So I think we have slightly improved reinsurance economics and structure compared to where we were a quarter or two ago |
| Our Spinnaker Insurance-as-a-Service has an industry leading platform and robust underwriting processes that have allowed us to grow at an accelerating rate in 2023, while avoiding many of the pitfalls experienced by our competitors over the past year |
| We are especially excited to have achieved this growth while expanding our operating margin in this already profitable portion of our business, truly a win-win for both Spinnaker and its MGA customers |
| I think we were able to achieve slightly more benefit from the cost reduction initiatives, in the fourth quarter than we had previously expected |
| We have a distribution advantage because we are getting those leads directly from the builder partners, and we have a product advantage |
| So we're really excited that we can continue, the efforts of HIPO to really write business profitably with these areas that we think are ones that we have a distinct advantage |
| These initiatives, when combined with the actions we took in the second half of 2023 to streamline our operations and reduce our fixed expenses give us greater confidence that we are on track to achieve our profitability goals ahead of schedule |
| As we enter 2024, we believe we are incredibly well positioned to compete for business in our core markets and in our core customer segments |
| This efficiency improvement is even more impressive when viewed in conjunction with our top line growth, with fixed expenses falling from 138% of 2022 revenue to only 66% of 2023 revenue and more encouraging only a small percentage of the benefit of our late 2023 cost reduction measures are reflected in these numbers |
| The combined effect of rate and underwriting actions taken over the past two years, which resulted in a 28% written rate increase in Q4 and the actions taken to structurally reduce our exposure to cat related volatility mean that the expected loss ratio of the business we wrote in Q4 2023 was far better than in Q4 2022 |
| When I mentioned going back on the offense, that's our comfort writing business in segments, in demographics, in geographies, and products where we believe we have a strong competitive advantage |
| The HHIP business is improving from a revenue standpoint both in Q4 and continuing again in 2024 because of the factors we talked about earlier, the rate improvements and that sort of thing, but also because of the change in the reinsurance structure |
| So we're still relatively early in getting, the actual portfolio to rate adequacy, which is one of the reasons why these numbers I think are very exciting because we still have lots of positive benefit to work ourselves into the P&L |
| We feel very good about our current rate level with those things already filed and already in flight, as I mentioned, to get back on offense |
| We have a tech advantage because quoting a property that doesn't even have a street number or a street name requires significant ingestion of data from builder partners |
| So we feel like we're in good shape competitively to write (ph) profitable business |
| I think beyond that, we just came through our 2024 reinsurance placement and I think that maybe the market was a little bit better than we expected and I think maybe our story was a little bit more well received by the reinsurance market than we had expected |
| We expect 2024 revenue to continue to grow at an accelerated rate relative to TGP, rising more than 60% from $210 million this past year to more than $340 million in 2024 |
| By moving away from our past reinsurance structure and bringing premium more in line with the risk that we are retaining, we are able to monetize the insurance risk more effectively, which is a key driver of both revenue growth and profitability |
| We expect additional improvements in 2025, when we expect net loss ratio to be less than 75% for the full year |
| During 2023, our top line growth, mix shift toward more predictable and profitable businesses, more effective use of reinsurance, continued rate and underwriting improvements at HHIP and efficiency gains across our organization leave us with a clear line of sight delivering positive adjusted EBITDA earlier than we expected when we entered the year |
| We expect to turn adjusted EBITDA positive during the second half of the year and for the fourth quarter to be fully adjusted EBITDA positive |
| In these areas, we have a tech competitive advantage, distribution competitive advantage, and a product competitive advantage |
| We believe that for our target customer, generation better customers, especially those who are buying a newly built home, a Hippo homeowners’ policy will be the best option |
| The second aspect of it, which we've talked about before, and this is one example, we do have comparative and competitive advantages in certain channels |
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| We finished Q4 2023 with an adjusted EBITDA loss of $22 million down more than 50% from our adjusted EBITDA loss of $47 million in fourth quarter of 2022 |
| Looking forward, we expect an adjusted EBITDA loss of only $41 million to $51 million for the full year 2024, down more than 75% from 2023 with over 90% of this loss coming in the first half of the year |
| So one of the headwinds for our Services segment is the pullback and the pause in underwriting that we've had at HHIP |
| One, if I look at TGP, the guide there seems to be to downwards movement there like 20%, 30% down, whereas the revenue number I think is up quite significantly in the midpoint of the guidance range |
| In 2022 and 2023, we ended up retaining more of the risk functionally than we retained on the premium which was a key contributor to some of the losses from the HHIP program |
| So in the Services segment, the guide there is for a bit of a reduction in growth relative to where you were in 2023 |
| When you understand that there was a headwind associated with the HIPO Home Insurance Program pause |
| For 2024, we expect fixed expenses to continue to decline by more than 20% in absolute dollar terms and to less than 31% of expected 2024 revenue |
| So I guess on the one hand, I could say maybe you have a larger base and growing off of that base is more challenging |
| I think it's a little premature for us to be sharing Q1 results |
| If we experience the exact same hailstorms this coming year with the same level of severity, the program of deductible changes and selective non-renewals in cat concentrated areas that is currently in progress would reduce Hippo's direct losses by approximately 55% |
| And just as a point of clarification, and I know your question was specific to HHIP, I think, as Stewart mentioned, we've always we never shut down for business in our agency segment |
| As discussed in the last quarter earnings call, in the second half of 2023, we launched an aggressive program to raise deductibles for wind and hail in certain geographies and began non-renewing policies in higher-cat areas where we had excess concentration |
| One, we were actually, I think, ahead of the curve from most of our competitors on changing given the hardening of the market |
| I think we're going to see, when I look at your guidance even into 2025, I would have thought that with the changes in the reinsurance program and really a diminishing quota-share and much more XoL, we'd see that gap almost eliminated |
| So we hadn't made all -- we hadn't benefited from all of the actions that we had already been taken |
| I think it gives us an opportunity to clarify maybe one of the drivers that's going on that, that should be clear to everybody, but because we have some eliminations in the numbers between segments may be a bit confusing |
| Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from historical results and/or from our forecast, including those set forth to Hippo's Form 8-K filed today |
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