IPO Frenzy Strikes Again As Omada Health Debut Hits a Peak of 42% Gains…

Omada Health just made its Nasdaq debut, and the only thing chunkier than America’s collective obesity levels is Omada’s first-day pop… shares exploded 42% like they snorted a line of Wegovy and chased it with a Fireball. I guess the IPO market is back, ehh? 

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In short, Omada Health sells virtual coaching and chronic care to people with prediabetes, diabetes, hypertension, and whatever else is trending in the Mayo Clinic’s SEO reports. They raised $150 million by offloading 7.9 million shares at $19 a pop, which wasn’t quite the “are you high?” end of the range, but enough for a $1.08 billion market cap.

And yet, Omada wreaked chaos at the opening bell. Shares opened at $23 (already a 21% gain), then ripped straight past $27 as investors began stepping over themselves just to get a buzz of the action. Keep in mind, this is the second digital health IPO in weeks, after Hinge Health waltzed onto the NYSE in May and promptly juiced its own valuation beyond $38 per share. Apparently, all it takes is a little “chronic care but make it SaaS” and the market forgets SPAC season ever happened. 

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To be fair though, Omada’s fundamentals are solid as all get out. Revenue grew 38% to $169.8 million in 2024, up from $122.8 million last year. Q1 revenue hit $55 million, a 57% year-over-year jump, meanwhile, net loss shrank to $9.4 million from $19 million a year ago… which is practically break-even compared to digital health’s usual tire fires. Additionally, more than 2,000 employers are shoving Omada at their workers, and nearly 680,000 patients are getting pestered to eat less bread by a virtual coach. The largest outside shareholders read like a who’s-who of VC FOMO: US Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and FMR all own about 10% each. 

What’s more is that Omada’s secret sauce comes down to the only thing sexier than AI right now: GLP-1s… a.k.a. The magical, headline-flooding weight-loss drugs (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro) that are about as common in celebrities' medicine cabinets as their collective collection of divorce papers. And Omada has milked this business for all it’s worth. For instance, the model goes like this: they sign up employers, plug in with giant pharmacy benefit managers, then promise to help patients lose more weight, lose less muscle, and not turn into anxiety-ridden cheese sticks when they stop popping their weekly injection. CEO Sean Duffy’s pitch: “GLPs do quantity, we do quality.” Translation: Big Pharma gets you skinny, Omada nags you into staying that way.

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That’s the play, and apparently it’s working. If you can make chronic care sound like a streaming subscription and sprinkle in a dash of Ozempic, you’re golden. However, with that said, as the day has passed, Omada Health has given up most of it’s post-IPO price gains. Shares are still up around 19% on the day… but not the 42% they were. 

But given America’s not getting healthier anytime soon… I’d say there’s still some massive upside ahead. Of course, don’t hold me to that and make sure you do your due diligence before placing your bets. We’ll just have to see how Monday’s price action looks. Until next time, friends…

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