How to buy and short Babylon Health shares

How to ‘buy’ Babylon Health shares

With us, you can trade on Babylon Health shares by speculating on the price as you predict its rise or fall.

Trading vs investing in Babylon Health shares

Trading and investing are different in many ways. With us, you can only trade Babylon Health shares with CFDs to speculate on share price movements. These derivatives let you take a position without owning the underlying shares, plus, you could receive various tax benefits.¹ CFDs are leveraged products, which means that you only need to commit a deposit upfront – called a margin – to receive full market exposure. However, leverage significantly increase the risk of trading as it magnifies the losses as well as profits. It’s important to take steps to manage your risk

Learn more about the impact of leverage on your trades

How to short Babylon Health shares

You can short Babylon Health shares with us using CFDs. Short selling enables you to make a potential gain (or loss) from a fall in the share price by selling (going short on) the underlying shares rather than buying (going long).

With us, you can short-sell in these steps:

1. Create a CFD trading account or Open My IG
2. Search for ‘Babylon Health’ on our platform
3. Select ‘sell’ in the deal ticket
4. Choose your position size
5. Open and monitor your position

Take a short position if you think that the Babylon Health share price will fall. If your prediction is correct, you’ll make gains. If incorrect, you’ll make a loss.

Remember, CFDs are leveraged, meaning you’d pay an initial deposit that’s a percentage of the full value of your position, but both possible profits and losses are magnified to the full value of your trade.

How to close your Babylon Health position

What is Babylon Health's business model?

The business model of this London-based digital healthcare company is centred on value-based care and is contracted to serve over 24 million people in 16 countries.¹ The telehealth mobile platform helps patients navigate health systems by making a digital connection with the clinicians 24/7.

• It works with governments, health providers and insurers worldwide and also provides support to healthcare facilities of all sizes
• The digital healthcare provider increased its estimated contracted revenue to over $60 million per month since launching in 2013¹
• From early 2022, its digital-first service, Babylon 360, and its work in primary care will manage about 350,000 patients under a global capitated budget (healthcare provider payment agreements) and 105,000 NHS General Practitioners in the UK¹
• It uses a model where technology is used to standardise clinical quality healthcare at scale
• Its digital health platform benefits from advanced computing power, data collection, prescriptive analytics, artificial intelligence and robotic processing to create integrated experiences and services for end users
• The company takes preventative healthcare approach to keep people at the peak of their health and avoid illness as a measure to lower healthcare costs

Who are Babylon Health's competitors?

Some of Babylon Health’s competitors include the following companies in the digital healthcare industry.²

• Ada Health, based in Germany
• Wellabe, based in Germany
• Medkitor, based in Spain
• Byon8, based in Sweden
• Jutro Medical, based in Poland
• Curai Health, based in the USA

Most of the above-mentioned Babylon Health competitors have received private investment through venture capital or seed funding.

Footnotes:

¹ Babylon Health
² CB Insights