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What has to happen in Homeowners multi-peril

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This page changes Homeowners multi-peril inside the complete LMND model. Every other vertical, corporate programme and valuation assumption stays in the selected portfolio case.

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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $86.24 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $145M 12% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $1.07B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The AI claims argument turns into underwriting margin, and Car becomes the third large line. Lemonade's LAE ratio has gone from 13% to a record-low 5% against an industry average near 9%, with record lows in homeowners, car and pet in the same quarter - and Car, where claims are hardest, hit 7%. This case carries that cost advantage into the loss ratios rather than treating it as a one-quarter print, and lets Car compound faster as states open. What it does NOT assume is any improvement in pet's loss ratio beyond base, which is the line that got worse this quarter and is about to become the largest book.

Homeowners multi-peril

Basis quarter$97M
Final quarter$145M
Implied CAGR+8%
Final revenue mix12%

Renters, condo and home under one multi-peril book, and still the largest line at $554M of in-force premium. It is the front door: a renters policy at $240 a year is the cheapest thing Lemonade sells and the thing almost every customer buys first, which is why premium per policy has FALLEN for six straight quarters while the book grew. The economics have gone the other way - the gross loss ratio was 82% in the first quarter of 2025 and 44% in the basis quarter, the best of any product. This line is the acquisition engine and, now, the profit engine too.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $64M Estimated
2025 Q4 $77M Estimated
2026 Q1 $86M Estimated
2026 Q2 $97M Estimated
RentersHomeownersCondo
Subscribers 2.3M 5.8% of a 40.0M addressable base 2,308,333 policies: $554M of in-force premium over $240 of premium per policy.
Addressable subscribers 40.0M the S-curve ceiling US renter and owner households a direct digital insurer can reach; Lemonade holds under 2% of it today.
Net adds 86K/qtr ramping toward 130K/qtr, throttled as the base approaches the TAM 86,111 policies added in the basis quarter, the change in the derived policy count.
Net-add ceiling 130K/qtr what supply can deliver at full rate 130,000 policies a quarter, where this line's pace of adds stops rising.
ARPU $14.06/mo drifting −1.0% per quarter, floor $0.00 $14.06 a month net of reinsurance, against $20.00 gross that Lemonade publishes.
Non-subscriber revenue $0/qtr growing 0.0% per quarter Zero. Every dollar of this line is premium earned on the policy base; there is no non-policy revenue in it.
Homeowners multi-peril

Latest: $145M (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2024Q3 $53M
2024Q4 $54M
2025Q1 $53M
2025Q2 $54M
2025Q3 $64M
2025Q4 $77M
2026Q1 $86M
2026Q2 $97M
2026Q3E $100M
2026Q4E $102M
2027Q1E $105M
2027Q2E $107M
2027Q3E $110M
2027Q4E $112M
2028Q1E $115M
2028Q2E $117M
2028Q3E $120M
2028Q4E $122M
2029Q1E $125M
2029Q2E $127M
2029Q3E $130M
2029Q4E $132M
2030Q1E $134M
2030Q2E $137M
2030Q3E $139M
2030Q4E $141M
2031Q1E $143M
2031Q2E $145M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Premium per policy has fallen every quarter for two years - $266 to $240 - while the policy count grew 40%. That is the renters mix winning inside the multi-peril book, and it is the reason this line's revenue grows slower than its customer count.
  • The gross loss ratio is disclosed for this line every quarter and it has roughly halved: 82%, 60%, 51%, 39%, 49%, 44%. The margin below is derived from that, not chosen.
  • This is the cross-sell doorway. Lemonade's stated strategy is renters first, then pet, car and life as the household grows, so weakness here shows up in the other four lines a year later.
  • The terminal margin on this line is NOT purely underwriting. It is a seasoned loss ratio plus about 27 points that stand for Lemonade's fixed cost base being spread across a larger book. The engine holds sales and marketing, technology and general and administrative at a constant 52.65% of revenue, so operating leverage - the entire profitability thesis - has nowhere else to live. Read the basis margin as disclosed economics and the terminal margin as economics plus an assumption.
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