We recently published an article titled Why These 15 Insurance Stocks Are Skyrocketing So Far In 2025. In this article, we are going to take a look at where eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:EHTH) stands against the other insurance stocks.

Insurance stocks are back in the spotlight after Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder report for 2024. These stocks are not only benefiting from stable cash flows, but they are also benefiting from higher investment yields and premium growth as inflation trends have benefited insurers.

Moreover, AI and tech innovations are starting to spill over into many other industries, which include insurance. It is also benefiting from a demographic tailwind as the growing “silver segment” requires more life and health insurance.

As such, it is worth looking into some of the top performers in this industry. There are good reasons behind each of the stocks’ uptrends.

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Methodology

For this article, I screened the top-performing defense stocks year-to-date. Stocks that I have covered recently will be excluded from this list.

I will also mention the number of hedge fund investors in these stocks. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter's strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 218 percentage points (see more details here).

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eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:EHTH)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 26

eHealth Inc (NASDAQ:EHTH) is the largest private health insurance marketplace.

The stock is up significantly so far in 2025 due to solid results during its Annual Enrollment Period (AEP). It led eHealth Inc (NASDAQ:EHTH) to raise its fiscal year 2024 revenue guidance to $500-520 million from $470-495 million and improve its GAAP net loss outlook to a range of $12 million loss to $3 million profit, compared to the prior forecast of a $36.5-22 million loss. Adjusted EBITDA guidance was also significantly increased to $40-55 million from $7.5-25 million.

Moreover, the company has been making an operational turnaround that is also helping financial metrics make an improvement, along with higher enrollment levels.

Its Q4 2024 earnings report is scheduled for release on February 26, 2025.

The consensus price target of $6.38 implies 38.57% downside.

EHTH is up 7.45% year-to-date.

Overall EHTH ranks 15th on our list of the insurance stocks that are skyrocketing so far in 2025. While we acknowledge the potential of EHTH as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than EHTH but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

 

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