EHealth (EHTH) Expects To Incur Net Loss In Q4, Shares Down
Zacks Investment Research | Jan 16, 2018 10:14PM ET
eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:EHTH) has announced its preliminary results for the fourth quarter and 2017. The company expects to incur loss for both the time periods. Shares of the company lost about 0.34% at the trading session on Jan 16.
eHealth projects net loss between $22.5 million and $23.5 million for the fourth quarter on revenues of $39 million to $40 million. Adjusted EBITDA is estimated to be negative, in the range of $18.3 million to $19.3 million. The Zacks Consensus Estimate loss is pegged at $1.24 on revenues of $37.5 million. Both the bottom and top line translate into a year over year decrease of 57% and 14% respectively. Revenues fell shy of the company’s expectations.
For the full year, eHealth tightened the revenue guidance to a range of $172.5 to $173.5 million from $165 to $175 million guided earlier. Net loss is expected to be in the range of $27 million to $28 million compared with prior guidance of loss of $27.8 million to $28.8 million. Adjusted EBITDA is projected to be negative, in the range of $14.5 million to $15.5 million. The company earlier projected Adjusted EBITDA to be negative, in the range of $14.1 million to $16.1 million
On its third-quarter earnings call, the company stated that as the fourth quarter is considered a primary selling season, it expects improvement in Medicare submitted application. The company noted that the submitted applications for all its Medicare products grew 16% year over year in the fourth quarter. For 2017, the same increased 10% year over year, falling shy of the management’s expectation of growth in high-teens, attributable to slower-than-expected roll-out of selected partner relationships relative to plan.
The company noted that submitted applications for individual and family plan products declined 23% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2017 while for 2017, the same decreased 51% year over year. This downside was attributable to the challenging individual and family market during the Open Enrollment Period of the fourth quarter.
Shares of eHealth have outperformed the .
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