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EverQuote, Inc.
2/23/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Abby and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the ever quote fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during that time, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press star one a second time. Thank you, and I would now like to turn the conference over to Brinley Johnson with the Blue Shirt Group. You may begin.
Thank you. Good afternoon, and welcome to EverQuote's fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings call. We'll be discussing the results announced in our press release issued today after the market closed. With me on the call this afternoon are Jamie Mendel, EverQuote's chief executive officer, and Joseph Sanborn, EverQuote's chief financial officer and chief administrative officer. During the call, we'll make statements related to our business that may be considered forward-looking statements under federal securities laws, including statements considering our financial guidance for the first quarter of 2026. Forward-looking statements may be identified with words and phrases such as expect, believe, intend, anticipate, plan, may, upcoming, and similar words and phrases. These statements reflect our views only as of today and should not be considered our views as of any subsequent date. We specifically disclaim any obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements except as required by law. Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from our expectations. For discussion of those risks and uncertainties, please refer to our SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on the Investor Relations section of our website. Finally, during the course of today's call, we referred to certain non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe are helpful to investors. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures was included in the press release we issued after the close of Market Today, which is available on the investor relations section of our website. And with that, I'll turn it over to Jamie.
Thank you, Brimley, and thank you all for joining us today. 2025 was a phenomenal year for EverQuote, and we're excited about our position entering 2026. We grew revenue by 38% in 2025, making material progress toward our vision of becoming the number one growth partner to PNC insurance providers. We delivered this growth by scaling our marketplace, launching new products, further integrating AI into our operations and deepening provider relationships, all of which accelerated our evolution to a growth solutions partner to our customers. More impressively, We delivered this growth with increasing operating leverage. We grew adjusted EBITDA by 62% as we continue to generate efficiency throughout our operations through the use of AI and other technologies. Thanks to the team's strong execution, we exited 2025 with record financial performance across all our key financial metrics, a highly capital efficient operation, and a strong balance sheet. We entered 2026 from a position of strength and with a stable and healthy P&C insurance market. Consumer shopping levels remain elevated following rate increases in recent years. Carrier underwriting is profitable, and our carrier conversations about 2026 have centered around growth. This backdrop supports a confident outlook for 2026. Since going public in 2018, EverQuote Management has established a seven-year track record of delivering against our commitments. while navigating an always dynamic set of market conditions. We now reiterate our next commitment, which is to achieve a billion dollars of revenue while continuing to expand the cash generation of our marketplace. We will do this amidst continued dynamism in the market, this time brought on by the rapid acceleration of the capabilities of AI. We believe that we are well positioned to lead and benefit from this shift. Applying data and technology to insurance shopping to remove friction for consumers and deliver growth to providers has been deeply ingrained in our DNA since our founding. We have amassed a one-of-a-kind data moat from our hundreds of millions of historical insurance shopping events, each of which contributes proprietary data that could be used in many ways to create enhanced digital and AI native experiences. In recent years, we have applied AI to automate our traffic bidding, We have rolled out products like smart campaigns, our AI provider bidding solution. We have deployed AI voice into our call center operations, and we have begun adopting GenAI throughout our operations to drive efficiency. All of these advances have contributed to our growing operating leverage, punctuated by last year's 62% growth in adjusted EBITDA and a more than doubling of our revenue since 2023, despite nearly zero increase in our operating expenses. In 2026, EverQuote will accelerate our evolution towards an AI-first future. Within our operations, we will further accelerate our engineering team's path to more fulsome agentic coding and adoption of AI tools and agents throughout our operations to drive further operating efficiency. For our customers, we will roll out new products and features that combine our unique data with newfound capabilities of generative AI to accelerate their ability to derive value from this technology. We look forward to sharing more about some exciting features we are developing later this year. I want to thank and congratulate the EverQuote team for delivering results in 2025 that exceeded expectations. As we progress into 2026, we will build on this momentum and are taking steps that redefine EverQuote and insurance distribution for the age of AI. I'll now turn the call over to Joseph to discuss our financial results.
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