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Alignment Healthcare, Inc.ALHCCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Health Care›Managed Health Care

Technology-enabled Medicare Advantage health plan providing coordinated care for seniors across several US states.

≈ A smaller, tech-driven Medicare Advantage insurerMomentum laggard 6
Mkt cap
$1.54B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
96%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$49.8M
20-day average traded
P/B
5.54×
price to book
ROE
13.2%
delivered
Implied ROE
42.9%
what the price asks
Next earnings
118 days
4 Mar 2027
Close · USD$7.34
1D-2.9%
1W+1.0%
1M-15.7%
3M-46.7%
6M-59.1%
YTD-62.8%
1Y-57.0%
ATR %8.2%
Beta0.60
52w lowhigh70.8% off high

What Alignment Healthcare does

Technology-enabled Medicare Advantage health plan providing coordinated care for seniors across several US states.

Is paid a fixed monthly amount per member by the federal Medicare programme, adjusted for how sick each member is, and keeps what it does not spend on medical care. That makes the share of premiums spent on claims, and quality star ratings that unlock bonus payments, the key measures. California is its largest market.

In one line: A smaller, tech-driven Medicare Advantage insurer.

Products and services

  • Medicare Advantage HMO/PPO plans
  • AVA care-management technology platform
  • Special-needs plans (SNPs)
  • Provider network management

Customers

  • Medicare-eligible seniors
  • Dual-eligible (Medicaid+Medicare) members

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Health care
  • Managed care / health insurance
  • Medicare Advantage plans

What could go right

  • Medicare Advantage enrollment growth
  • Star-rating/risk-adjustment improvements

What could go wrong

  • Medicare Advantage reimbursement rate cuts
  • Medical cost trend/utilization risk

Moat: narrow (data, process know-how). Proprietary AVA analytics platform helps manage medical costs for high-risk senior populations.

Headquarters: Orange, California · Founded: 2013 · Employees: 1,849

Named competitors

Alignment Healthcare at a glance

Size Alignment Healthcare (ALHC) is a United States Health Care company (Managed Health Care) with a market value of $1.54B, the 1976th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $7.34 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 59.1%, against +13.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — lowest of 8 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 35.9% over the last twelve months (peer median +8.2%); the operating margin is 0.9% (peer median 3.8%).

Valuation It trades at 5.54× book value against a peer median of 2.62× (most expensive of 8).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 42.9%; Alignment Healthcare delivers 13.2%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.

Credit Alignment Healthcare has 1 bond outstanding ($330M).

Short interest Short interest is 12.3% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 4 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

5010015011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 113ALHC 43
Six months, rebased to 100: Alignment Healthcare against the median of its 7 peers (local-currency closes).

Alignment Healthcare financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$4.94B$3.95B$2.70B$1.82B$1.43B
Revenue growth—+46%+48%+27%—
Net income$28.9M-$724,000-$128M-$148M-$150M
Free cash flow$77.0M$113M-$6.65M-$95.2M-$69.2M
Capital expenditure$31.0M$26.8M$41.4M$36.0M$23.8M
Total debt$331M$338M$338M$181M$172M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Alignment Healthcare competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%-10%0%+10%OSCRMOHCNCHUMCIALHC6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Alignment Healthcare is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

0%10%20%30%20×40×OSCRMOHCNCHUMCIELVUNHALHCReturn on equity →Price / book →
A bank or insurer earning more on its equity usually trades at a higher multiple of book; points far above the trend are priced for more. Alignment Healthcare is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

0%20%40%60%0%20%40%60%OSCRMOHCNCHUMCIUNHALHCROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Alignment Healthcare is the large dot.

Alignment Healthcare competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (ALHC vs HUM vs UNH vs CVS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Alignment Healthcare ALHC$1.54B-59%+36%13%5.54×42.9%
Humana HUM$52.1B+58%+18%7%2.71×16.9%
UnitedHealth UNH$353B+4%+3%16%3.60×19.1%
CVS Health CVS$107B-7%+7%14%1.33×9.3%
Clover Health Investments CLOV$2.56B+54%+54%-5%6.32×94.7%
Centene CNC$34.5B+25%+10%7%1.55×14.3%

How Alignment Healthcare compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Alignment Healthcare against its 7 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureALHCPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-15.7%+6.2%lowest of 8
6-month return-59.1%+13.0%lowest of 8
Return on equity13.2%11.6%4th highest of 8
Price / book5.54×2.62×most expensive of 8
Trailing P/E56.4×22.4×most expensive of 7
ROE the price implies42.9%16.9%2nd most demanding of 8
ROE delivered13.2%11.6%4th highest of 8

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Alignment Healthcare ALHCUnited States$1.54B-59%+36%13%5.54×42.9%13.2%
Oscar Health OSCRUnited States$8.38B+44%+43%34%4.61×70.7%34.3%
Molina Healthcare MOHUnited States$10.9B+12%-1%-1%2.62×17.6%-1.2%
Centene CNCUnited States$34.5B+25%+10%7%1.55×14.3%6.8%
Humana HUMUnited States$52.1B+58%+18%7%2.71×16.9%6.8%
Cigna CIUnited States$77.6B+3%+8%15%1.82×9.1%15.5%
Elevance Health ELVUnited States$92.0B+13%+4%12%2.06×13.4%11.6%
UnitedHealth UNHUnited States$353B+4%+3%16%3.60×19.1%16.4%

Alignment Healthcare bonds and credit

Alignment Healthcare has 1 bond outstanding with $330M face value.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are Alignment Healthcare's main competitors?
Named competitors: Humana (HUM), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), CVS Health (CVS), Clover Health (CLOV), Centene (CNC). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Oscar Health (OSCR), Molina Healthcare (MOH), Centene (CNC), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI), Elevance Health (ELV).
Is Alignment Healthcare expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 5.54× against a peer median of 2.62×, most expensive of 8 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 42.9%; Alignment Healthcare delivers 13.2%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.
How has Alignment Healthcare stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -59.1% against +13.0% for the median peer; over one year -57.0%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.