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Root (ROOT) guidance and outlook

Root's 10-Q filed Nov 4, 2026 makes 22 forward-looking statements.

Guidance and outlook

Forward-looking statements, 10-Q filed Nov 4, 2026

• To scale the business, we aim to drive new customer growth and optimize unit economics via our two distribution channels: direct and partnership.
• The data science model continuously seeks to optimize bidding strategies that fine-tune our prices to strike a balance between offering a competitive price and achieving target unit economics.
• Through continued investment in and diversification of our distribution channels, leveraging our proprietary technology and data science and focusing on partnerships with automotive, financial services, and independent agents, we believe this will position us for a sustainable, long-term and profitable path for growth.
• Over the long term, we expect to maintain the flexibility to modify our reinsurance program.
• We view premiums per policy as an important metric since the higher the premiums per policy, the greater the amount of earned premium we expect from each policy.
• We view this as an important metric because it is an indicator of the size of our portfolio of policies as well as an indicator of expected earned premium over the coming 12 months.
• We believe that our calculation of premiums in force is useful to investors and analysts because it captures the impact of fluctuations in customers and premiums per policy at the end of each reported period, without adjusting for known or projected policy updates, cancellations and non-renewals.
• We view gross expense ratio as important because it allows us to analyze the underlying expense base of the business and establish expense targets, prior to the impact of reinsurance.
• We view gross combined ratio as important because it allows us to evaluate financial performance and establish targets that we believe more closely reflect the underlying performance and profitability of the business prior to reinsurance.
• We believe that gross accident period loss ratio is useful in evaluating expected losses prior to the impact of reinsurance.
• We also charge policy fees, which are typically nonrefundable fees that are intended to reimburse a portion of the costs incurred to underwrite the policy.
• We plan to continue investing in and diversifying our marketing channels to attract and acquire new customers, increase our brand awareness, and expand our product offerings within certain markets.

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What does Root expect?

To scale the business, we aim to drive new customer growth and optimize unit economics via our two distribution channels: direct and partnership. The data science model continuously seeks to optimize bidding strategies that fine-tune our prices to strike a balance between offering a competitive price and achieving target unit economics. Through continued investment in and diversification of our distribution channels, leveraging our proprietary technology and data science and focusing on partnerships with automotive, financial services, and independent agents, we believe this will position us f

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Updated Nov 8, 2026. Read automatically from SEC filings and public data; errors are possible. Not investment advice.