Oscar Health's drop below $30 makes little sense after it crushed Q2, swung to a profit and raised full-year operating earnings guidance. Revenue was $4.90B versus $4.75B expected and EPS $1.10 versus $0.39, with FY26 revenue guided to $18.9B versus $18.6B estimated. The market needs time to digest the result, and the stock should recover soon; it remains a long-term hold. x.com  x.com  x.com 

Oscar Health's guidance raise shows improving operating leverage, the key test of whether its ACA growth can become durable profit. It lifted 2026 earnings from operations guidance to $600M-$800M from $500M-$700M while leaving revenue guidance unchanged at $18.7B-$19.0B, and improved medical loss ratio guidance by 50 bps to 81.0%-82.0%. The implied operating margin rises from about 3.2% to 3.7% without more revenue. ACA risk adjustment and medical-cost trends still need watching. x.com  x.com 

Oscar Health's raised 2026 guidance changes nothing fundamentally, so its 18%+ premarket jump is unlikely to hold. Operating earnings guidance rose to $500-700M from $250-450M, but Oscar had already booked $704M in Q1 alone, more than the new top end, with Q3 and Q4 seasonally bringing losses. 2027 could be challenging as management targets a 5% margin, and the stock looks fairly valued around $34. x.com  x.com 

Oscar Health could top $30 before the end of 2026 on margin expansion. It guides to $250-450M of operating earnings on $19B of 2026 revenue, 1.3-2.4% margins; insurers near 2.5% margins trade around 50% of revenue, implying about a $9.5B market cap at the high end versus $5.1B today. The long-term 5% margin target could support 1x revenue. CEO Mark Bertolini, one of the best CEOs now, buying 1M shares at $11.92 marked the bottom. x.com  x.com  x.com 

Oscar Health's scale is finally producing real operating leverage as its medical loss ratio improves, undercutting the view that it is uninvestable. Q1 revenue rose 53% to $4.65 billion, operating earnings 137% to $704 million, net income 147% to $679 million and basic EPS 107% to $2.28. x.com 

Oscar Health looks too extended after its big move and should pull back around earnings in the next few days; it is not a tech stock with a niche product capable of parabolic moves. x.com 

Oscar Health has turned the corner and is on the verge of a dramatic profitability inflection, yet trades at under 15x free cash flow. It projects $800 million in earnings from operations, a 1,000-basis-point improvement in its medical loss ratio and over $350 million of free cash flow this year, with more than $4.5 billion of net cash. The stock is headed to $30 by the end of 2026, after a painful year in which the call did not deliver. x.com 

Oscar Health still has a lot of room to run, provided regulations are favorable and the company keeps executing. x.com 

Oscar Health cannot be a great business because insurance, like banking, is uninvestable when its economics are nearly impossible to predict. One bad cycle or change in costs can wipe out margins that are already nonexistent. A post the author replies to argues Oscar avoided the 30-40% member drop the market expected after enhanced premium tax credits expired. x.com 

Oscar Health's CEO bought $12 million of stock, a move that could stop the shares' six-month slide. x.com