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7 Best Travel Insurance Companies for Seniors of July 2026
Key Takeaways
Seven Corners, Travel Insured International, HTH Travel Insurance, IMG Travel Insurance, World Trips, Faye and John Hancock rank among the best travel insurance companies for seniors.
Travel insurance can help you recover your money if your flight is delayed or canceled, if you lose your baggage, or if you get sick or injured during your trip.
Most travel insurance plans have a generous upper age limit — up to 99 years of age. However, certain benefits (adventure sports coverage, for instance) may have age caps.
A policy typically costs 4% to 12% of what you paid for the entire trip, according to multiple insurers and online marketplaces.
Methodology: Our team vetted 20 companies based on 15+ data points. We read the fine print and compared coverage options and prices to determine which insurers best serve the needs of older travelers.
Our top picks for the best travel insurance companies for seniors
Seven Corners – Best for Group Travel Insurance
Travel Insured International – Best for Multi-Trip Travel Insurance
HTH Travel Insurance – Best for Medical Coverage
IMG Travel Insurance – Best for High Dental Coverage
Faye – Best for 100% Digital Travel Insurance
John Hancock – Best for Trip Delay Coverage
WorldTrips – Best for Upgrades & Add-ons
Pros
Easy enrollment for groups of 10 or more
24/7 multilingual travel support
Optional sports and golf equipment rental up to $5,000
Cons
Pre-existing conditions waiver only available with Trip Protection and Trip Protection USA (if you purchase the medical bundle)
Medical benefit maximum of $10,000 for people 80 and older
HIGHLIGHTS
A.M. Best rating
A (Excellent)
TrustPilot score
4.6
BBB rating
A+
Why we chose it: We picked Seven Corners as the best option for group travel insurance for seniors because it offers both trip protection and medical-only insurance plans for groups of 10 or more.
Travelers can choose between comprehensive trip protection plans or just medical coverage, with the option to customize coverage for one or more travelers based on their needs. Both options include trip cancellation, bag delay and medical coverage.
Seven Corners offers primary medical coverage, which means that the insurer pays out first if you get sick or injured during the trip, as opposed to secondary coverage. The latter requires that you file a claim with your regular health insurer first.
Optional benefits include coverage for car and sports equipment rental, event tickets, “cancellation for any reason” and “interruption for any reason,” which cover up to 75% of non-refundable trip costs.
Pros
Single-trip and annual travel insurance plans
$500 pet kennel coverage maximum
Optional interruption for any reason coverage of up to 75% of trip costs
Cons
Annual plan not available for residents of Missouri, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania or Washington
Natural disaster evacuation coverage only available with the premium plan
HIGHLIGHTS
A.M. Best rating
A (Excellent)
TrustPilot score
4.1
BBB rating
A+
Why we chose it: Travel Insured International is our pick for the best multi-trip travel insurance option for seniors because it offers frequent travelers an annual plan that includes trip protection and medical coverage that is valid on multiple trips.
If you plan on making several trips in the coming year, Travel Insured International’s annual multi-trip plan offers trip protection and medical coverage for all of them. That saves you the hassle of having to purchase insurance for each trip.
The company offers $100,000 for accident and sickness expenses per trip and $100,000 for medical evacuations. The plan also allocates $2,500 per trip for bag loss or theft and has a trip delay benefit of $5,000 per trip ($200 per day) for delays of 12 hours or longer.
The cost of the base annual multi-trip plan is $94 a year for adults and $64 per year for children and increases with any upgrades you add.
Pros
Worldwide access to health services via the mPassport app
24/7 global medical assistance
Trip interruption coverage of up to 200% of tour cost
Covers up to age 95
Cons
Some plans require travelers to have an existing primary health plan
Cancel for any reason not available to New York or Washington residents
HIGHLIGHTS
A.M. Best rating
A
TrustPilot score
3.2
BBB
A+
Why we chose it: We picked HTH Travel Insurance as the best medical coverage travel insurance for seniors because it includes full coverage for doctor visits, diagnostics labs and X-rays.
HTH Travel Insurance offers two travel medical insurance plans — one for travelers with a primary health insurance plan and one for travelers who don’t have health insurance. Both plans allow customers to choose between four medical benefit options ($50,000, $100,000, $500,000 or $1,000,000) and four deductible options ($0, $100, $250 or $500). There are also single-trip, multi-trip and long-term coverage options.
Besides travel medical coverage, HTH Travel Insurance offers three trip protection plans — TripProtector Economy, TripProtector Classic and TripProtector Preferred. All three plans include trip cancellation, trip delay and trip interruption coverage. The trip interruption coverage covers up to 200% of trip costs, the highest percentage out of all the companies on our list. A highlight of HTH’s travel coverage is that it can include preexisting conditions, as long as you pay your premium within a certain period after booking.
Pros
Dental coverage limit of up to $1,000
Plans for airline and cruise travel
Up to $500,000 in primary medical coverage available
Several plans cover preexisting conditions
Cons
Budget plan offers secondary medical coverage
“Cancel for any reason” add-on is only available on one plan
Limited add-on options
HIGHLIGHTS
A.M. Best rating
A-
TrustPilot score
4.6
BBB rating
B
Why we chose it: IMG Travel Insurance offers comprehensive travel insurance and excellent health care benefits, which is important for seniors. In particular, the coverage stands out for offering $1,000 in dental coverage with every plan. This dental limit is somewhat of a rarity, as most of the plans we surveyed cap dental coverage at $750.
IMG Travel Insurance sells plans for both airline and cruise travel, as well as plans tailored to adventure sports enthusiasts and budget-conscious travelers who just need the essentials.
All of its travel insurance plans cover up to $1,000 for dental injuries abroad (like infections or broken teeth) as well as take-home prescriptions and supplies.
All of IMG’s insurance plans offer round-the-clock non-insurance services, including but not limited to: emergency cash transfers, medical referrals, help with lost travel documents, emergency translation services and embassy or consulate referrals. There are also dedicated medical plans that offer up to $8 million in coverage.
Pros
Fully digital claims process
Mobile app provides flight delays, gate changes and baggage claim updates
Add-ons for pet care and adventure sports
Cons
Some benefits aren’t available in every state
Doesn’t sell policies through popular insurance marketplaces
HIGHLIGHTS
A.M. Best rating
A+
TrustPilot
4.7
BBB rating
N/A
Why we chose it: Faye travel insurance offers a travel insurance product that’s highly customizable for tech-savvy seniors. The claims and reimbursement process is fully digital, and is supported by a user-friendly webpage and a mobile app to manage your policy on the go.
Older travelers comfortable with technology can purchase and manage their policy and file claims through the mobile app, with the option to chat with a live representative 24/7. The app can also connect you to telehealth services, find pharmacies, call your local embassy, check the weather and convert currency.
Another standout feature is Faye Wallet, a digital wallet within the Faye app that connects to your Google Pay or Apple Pay accounts for faster reimbursement.
You can further customize this travel plan with add-ons that cover veterinary or kennel costs, rental car damage and theft, adventure and extreme sports (regardless of age) and accidental damages to your rental residence.
Pros
Travel delays are eligible for coverage after just three hours
Preexisting conditions waiver on all plans
“Cancel for any reason” add-on available on all plans
Cons
Baggage delay benefit requires a 12-hour delay
No mobile app support
No concierge services for non-emergency travel needs
HIGHLIGHTS
A.M. Best rating
A+
TrustPilot score
N/A
BBB rating
N/A
Why we chose it: We selected John Hancock Travel as the best travel insurance for trip delays for seniors because of its short delay times. Policyholders can file a trip delay claim if their travels are delayed for as little as three to six hours (most insurers require that you wait 12 hours or more).
John Hancock Travel offers short delays — with fee variations — across the board, even with its least expensive plan. The plans differ in how much you can be reimbursed.
The Gold plan can reimburse you up to $1,000 ($200 per day) if your travels are delayed for three hours or more. The Silver plan, on the other hand, can reimburse up to $750 ($150 per day) with the same time requirements. Lastly, the Bronze plan offers the lowest coverage limit ($500) and has a longer minimum delay requirement of six hours.
Finally, policyholders can upgrade any of John Hancock’s travel insurance plans with add-ons for “Cancel for any reason”, rental car collision and in-flight accidental death & dismemberment.
Pros
Option to increase baggage coverage to $4,000
Travel delay coverage after just five hours
Choice of 75% or 50% “cancel for any reason” coverage
Cons
No primary medical coverage in budget plan
Trip interruption for any reason covers only 50% of expenses
HIGHLIGHTS
A.M. Best rating
A++ (Superior)
TrustPilot score
4.5
BBB rating
A+
Why we chose it: WorldTrips stands out for its supplemental coverage options, which should appeal to seniors. Policyholders can upgrade the basic travel insurance plan with several add-ons and add new covered events to boost their coverage.
Upgrades to any WorldTrips travel insurance include those for adventure sports, rental cars, pet care, destination weddings, “cancel for any reason” and “interrupt for any reason.”
Older travelers may want to consider the Elevate plan due to its high medical expenses and emergency medical evacuation coverage. The Explore and Escape plans both offer primary medical coverage up to $250,000 and $1,000,000 for emergency evacuation and repatriation.
Other travel insurance companies we considered
The following companies didn’t make it to our top picks, but they are still worth considering if the coverage and benefits suit your traveling needs. Read our full reviews to learn more:
Tin Leg
Tin Leg travel insurance offers nine travel insurance plans, including policies designed for cruise travelers and adventure sports enthusiasts. The coverage benefits are on par with the top insurers on the market, including coverage for travel delays, cancellations, lost luggage and medical emergencies, as well as extra rental car insurance and coverage if your trip is cancelled or cut short for any reason.
Why it didn’t make the cut: Unfortunately, Tin Leg’s minimum wait time to file a claim for baggage delay is 24 hours on the majority of its plans. By contrast, most other companies in our top picks accept lost baggage claims after 12 hours. Considering this is one of the most common travel inconveniences, the shorter the claim filing time, the better.
Travelex
Travelex Insurance Services offers three insurance plans: Essential, Advantage and Ultimate. These include coverage for trip cancellation, trip interruption and loss of personal items. Policyholders can further enhance their protection by purchasing nine add-ons, which include car rental coverage, adventure sports, increased medical expenses, additional baggage, cancel for business reasons, rental property coverage and emergency evacuation.
Why it didn’t make the cut: Preexisting condition coverage is important for many senior travelers, but it’s only available as an add-on for the Ultimate plan, the company’s most expensive option. Other insurers allow you to add a preexisting condition waiver to most plan options.
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway offers three travel insurance options, including ExactCare Value, its most affordable plan. This plan includes the basics: trip cancellation, trip interruption, delay and baggage loss or theft.
Why it didn’t make the cut: While Berkshire Hathaway offers competitive travel insurance plans, we found that other insurers on our top picks offered similar benefits and more add-ons such as adventure sports coverage and riders for “cancel for any reason” and “trip interruption for any reason”.
What you need to know about travel insurance for seniors
Travel insurance for seniors is the same as travel insurance for any other age group, but there are some considerations for individuals aged 65 and above, mainly regarding medical benefits:
A minimum of $50,000 in medical coverage is recommended if you’re traveling abroad
Preexisting condition coverage is very desirable
Older travelers should also note that there’s a time limit for getting a preexisting conditions waiver. Insurance providers often require individuals to select the waiver (and purchase their policy) within 14 to 21 days of making their initial trip payment.
How much does travel insurance cost for seniors?
Travel insurance costs can vary widely. According to Generali Global, travel insurance costs between 4% to 12% of the total trip cost.
We surveyed 20 travel insurance companies and found that premiums ranged from $150 to $630 for two travelers who are aged 65 and 70, respectively, on a two-week trip to Spain. The combined trip cost was $4,225.
Costs vary based on the plan you choose and what it covers. The plans with the highest coverage limits for medical expenses, personal property and trip protection had the highest price tag.
How to get travel insurance as a senior
Read on for a breakdown of the steps to get travel insurance.
1. Assess your travel insurance coverage needs
When planning your trip, consider both your health conditions or specific needs and the activities you intend to engage in. Additionally, take stock of any credit card travel benefits and evaluate the coverage you’ll need depending on the destination.
For instance, international travelers should seek a plan with primary medical coverage, since domestic health insurance does not apply when traveling abroad. Conversely, domestic travelers who already have medical insurance may want the most coverage for prepaid trip costs, such as airfare, hotel and excursions.
2. Request and compare travel insurance quotes
Request quotes from several companies and review the plan documents, paying close attention to the policy’s fine print. In particular, look into each provider’s benefits for medical expenses, bag delay or loss, trip cancellation or interruption, and medical evacuation.
You can expedite this process by using a marketplace website like Squaremouth or TravelInsurance.com.
3. Declare any preexisting conditions during the application process
Next, disclose any preexisting condition to the provider to ensure coverage for flare-ups or emergencies related to it. Stable conditions like asthma are typically not considered preexisting.
For travel insurance providers, a preexisting condition is an injury or illness that prompted medical diagnosis or treatment during the policy’s lookback period — which is usually 60 to 90 days prior to the policy’s effective date, but sometimes up to six months.
4. Carefully read policy details, conditions and exclusions
Read the plan documents closely to ensure the policy aligns with your needs. As companies have strict definitions of coverage, you’ll want to make sure that you understand exactly what’s covered and how to properly use benefits when needed. Learning about the policy will also help you make a well-informed decision.
Methodology
We gathered sample quotes from 20 travel insurance companies, reviewed the benefits and selected the best travel insurance plans based on the following factors:
Medical expenses coverage: Our top picks offer at least one plan option that covers $100,000+ for medical bills and $500,000+ for emergency evacuation and repatriation of remains.
Travel-delay coverage: Delays are common in air travel, and waiting hours to file a claim is highly inconvenient. We prioritized insurers with short delay time requirements and excluded those requiring delays of at least 12 hours before accepting a claim.
Baggage-delay coverage: Luggage delay is another common problem during air travel. We included providers allowing claims within 12 hours, excluding those requiring travelers to wait up to 24 hours. This coverage is crucial as it helps mitigate the inconvenience of having to repurchase or go without essential travel items.
Baggage loss or theft: Our top picks offer at least one plan option or upgrade that covers baggage loss or theft for up to $1,000 or higher.
Trip cancellation and trip interruption: Our top picks cover 100% of prepaid, non-refundable travel expenses in case you need to cancel your trip as well as 100% to 175% of these expenses if your trip is cut short.
Add-ons: We took special note of add-ons such as “Cancel for Any Reason” (CFAR coverage), adventure sports and car rental collision coverage as well as upgrades to existing coverage levels.
Non-insurance services: We favored insurers that offer additional assistance services for inconveniences and emergencies that can take place during a trip, including multilingual translation and concierge services.
Travel Insurance for Seniors FAQs
Does Medicare cover me when I travel overseas?
Medicare typically doesn’t cover medical treatment outside the U.S., except in particular situations. It may cover inpatient hospital, doctor and ambulance services abroad if immediate medical care is needed and the nearest hospital equipped to offer adequate treatment is a foreign facility.
Does travel insurance cover pre-existing medical conditions?
Travel insurance covers pre-existing medical issues, if you meet the requirements. You’ll need to purchase the policy within 14 to 21 days (the actual number varies by insurer) after you make the first trip deposit — this typically refers to flight reservations. A handful of companies require you to purchase coverage even sooner — up to 24 hours after the initial trip purchase.
Travel insurance will exclude preexisting conditions if you don’t purchase the policy within the stipulated time frame. This means that any medical conditions present anywhere from 60 to 180 days before the policy’s activation are excluded.
Is there an age limit for travel insurance?
While travel insurance doesn’t have an age limit, some providers might impose restrictions or limits on medical coverage and other benefits based on the traveler’s age.
Summary of Money’s 7 Best Travel Insurance Companies for Seniors of 2026
Seven Corners – Best for Group Travel Insurance
Travel Insured International – Best for Multi-Trip Travel Insurance
HTH Travel Insurance – Best for Medical Coverage
IMG Travel Insurance – Best for High Dental Coverage
Faye – Best for 100% Digital Travel Insurance
John Hancock – Best for Trip Delay Coverage
WorldTrips – Best for Upgrades & Add-ons
Google’s TabFM skips per-dataset training and still predicts on tables it’s never seen
The vast majority of business data is tabular — living in data warehouses, CRMs, and financial ledgers — yet building a reliable model from it still means training a new one from scratch for every dataset, then maintaining hyperparameter tuning loops, feature engineering, and retraining pipelines to fight data drift. Google Research is proposing a way around that: a new foundation model called TabFM that treats tabular prediction as an in-context learning problem instead.It can generate predictions for a new, unseen table in a single forward pass. For enterprise developers and AI engineers, this reduces the time-to-production from weeks of pipeline engineering to a single API call.The challenge with traditional MLTo extract reliable predictions from a gradient-boosted tree, data scientists must build and maintain complex data pipelines. They have to clean messy inputs, impute missing values, encode categorical variables into numerical formats, and engineer custom feature crosses.Once the data is ready, they must run repetitive hyperparameter optimization loops, searching across learning rates, tree depths, subsampling ratios, and regularization grids to find the best configuration. Once deployed, these traditional models “incur ongoing operational debt through data drift monitoring and retraining pipelines to stay accurate,” Weihao Kong, Research Scientist at Google Research, told VentureBeat.Meanwhile, the rest of the AI industry has moved on. Generative AI models for text and computer vision have seamlessly shifted to zero-shot inference, where a model can perform a completely new task simply by being prompted with context. Large language models (LLMs) already excel at in-context learning, so why can’t we just feed tables into an off-the-shelf LLM?Because LLMs are trained on natural language rather than structured data, they struggle to process tables directly. First, their context limits are exhausted quickly by medium-sized tables containing just a few thousand rows and hundreds of columns. Second, LLMs suffer from tokenization inefficiency, awkwardly splitting numerical values and destroying mathematical precision. Finally, they suffer from structural blindness. When a 2D table is serialized as a 1D text string, LLMs lose track of which value belongs to which row and column as the table grows. “That’s why, today, it is far more effective to use an LLM to write the code that handles feature engineering and calls XGBoost than to ask the LLM to read the table itself,” Kong said.What is TabFM?To run inference with TabFM, you do not update any model weights. Instead, you take your historical examples (the training rows with their known labels) and your target rows (the new data you want to predict) and pass them to the model as a single, unified prompt. The model learns to interpret the relationships between columns and rows directly from this context at runtime.For example, consider an enterprise analyst trying to predict customer churn. Instead of building a bespoke data pipeline and training an XGBoost model, they can simply pass a sample of historical user session data alongside a new, active session into TabFM. In one forward pass, the model returns an instant churn probability. TabFM overcomes the limitations of LLMs by treating the data as a grid, preserving its structural integrity without forcing it into a single-dimensional text string.To effectively process diverse tabular structures while enabling scalable zero-shot prediction, TabFM synthesizes the strengths of earlier experimental architectures, TabPFN and TabICL. TabPFN, developed by Prior Labs, first proved that a transformer architecture could perform zero-shot classification on small tables, though it struggled to scale computationally to larger datasets. Later, TabICL, developed by France’s National Research Institute for Digital Science and Technology, addressed this bottleneck by introducing row compression, allowing in-context learning to efficiently process much larger tables. TabFM combines TabPFN’s deep feature contextualization with TabICL’s efficient compression into a novel hybrid design built on three key mechanisms:1. Alternating row and column attention: The raw table is first processed through a multilayer attention module that alternates across both columns (features) and rows (examples). By continuously attending across these two dimensions, the model natively captures complex feature interactions. This deep contextualization does the heavy lifting that would usually require tedious manual feature crafting by data scientists.2. Row compression: Following this contextualization, the cross-attended information for each row is compressed into a single, dense vector representation. TabICL pioneered this by using CLS tokens to compress a row’s rich information into one vector, “in contrast to TabPFN v2, v2.5, and v2.6, which attend over the full cell grid throughout the network,” Kong explained. This drastically shrinks the computational footprint.3. In-context learning (ICL): A causal Transformer then operates on this sequence of compressed embeddings. This Transformer model uses the attention mechanism of TabICL to attend over these dense row vectors, drastically reducing the computation cost and allowing the model to process large datasets efficiently.A major selling point of TabFM is its pretraining recipe. The model was trained entirely on hundreds of millions of synthetic datasets. These datasets were dynamically generated using structural causal models (SCMs) that incorporate a wide variety of random functions. By training exclusively on synthetic SCMs, TabFM learned the fundamental mathematical priors of how tabular features interact without ingesting real-world, confidential CSV files.TabFM in actionTo test the model’s capabilities, Google researchers benchmarked TabFM on TabArena, a comprehensive evaluation suite spanning 51 diverse tabular datasets across 38 classification and 13 regression tasks.On these public benchmarks, TabFM’s zero-shot predictions already match or beat heavily tuned supervised baselines. However, Google is careful to note that this does not automatically mean TabFM will universally dethrone bespoke, hyper-optimized production models on every enterprise workload.”Instead of replacing hyper-optimized production models, the true practical business value it unlocks for lean engineering teams is velocity,” Kong said. “It allows data analysts and backend engineers to instantly spin up high-quality baseline models without a dedicated data science team managing a complex lifecycle.”For advanced practitioners looking to squeeze out maximum accuracy, the research team also introduced a “TabFM-Ensemble” configuration. By running the model through 32 distinct variations and blending the results, TabFM pushes the performance even further. Getting started, trade-offs, and the cloud futureThe shift to in-context learning for tables introduces a new economic trade-off that engineering teams must consider. With traditional algorithms, training is slow and expensive, but inference is lightning-fast and cheap. TabFM flips this dynamic. While training time drops to zero, inference becomes significantly heavier. Because the model must process the entire historical dataset as context during every single prediction, it requires more compute and memory at runtime. In this new paradigm, “traditional machine learning training becomes the ‘prefill’ phase (KV caching) in the context window,” Kong said. While this prefill cost is steep, it is paid only once per table, and the cache is reused across subsequent queries. “The catch is prediction latency, which no amount of caching removes,” Kong added. Every new prediction requires a pass through a large transformer. “Any production API requiring single-digit-millisecond response times cannot tolerate TabFM’s forward-pass overhead.”For developers looking to evaluate the model today, the barrier to entry is low. Google designed TabFM as a drop-in replacement for traditional ML workflows, offering a scikit-learn compatible API (TabFMClassifier and TabFMRegressor). It natively handles mixed numerical and categorical columns, works directly with pandas DataFrames, and requires no manual ordinal encoders or numerical scalers. The library supports both JAX and PyTorch backends.However, enterprise teams need to be aware of current limitations and licensing restrictions. The model architecture has a hard limit of 10 output classes for classification tasks, and it is optimized for tables with up to 500 features. More importantly, while Google released the underlying codebase under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, the pre-trained model weights are published on Hugging Face under a strict tabfm-non-commercial-v1.0 license. Developers can evaluate the model internally, but it cannot be deployed in commercial products yet.Looking ahead, Google is addressing the commercial deployment friction through its cloud ecosystem. TabFM is being integrated directly into Google BigQuery, allowing analysts to run zero-shot predictions natively via an “AI.PREDICT” command. By putting foundation model inference right next to the data warehouse, TabFM could soon make complex tabular machine learning as accessible as a basic database query.In practice, TabFM shines in rapid prototyping, high data drift environments, and small to medium-sized datasets under 100,000 rows. Conversely, teams should stick to traditional models for strict, ultra-low latency APIs, or massive tables exceeding one million rows, which currently require aggressive row sampling that degrades the foundation model’s competitive advantage.
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Amazon’s orthopedic flip-flops with over 11,500 five-star ratings are just $25
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Bank of America argues Amazon retail rival is major AI winner
Online shopping is moving into a new phase, and consumers may not always notice who is powering it.A shopper today can ask an AI assistant to compare products, find deals, read reviews, build a cart, and move closer to checkout without visiting a traditional retailer’s website. In some cases, the assistant is still mostly helping the shopper search.In others, it is beginning to act more like an agent that can move the purchase forward with user approval, payment controls, and other guardrails.For Shopify, this distinction is becoming crucial as it heads to report its second-quarter 2026 results on August 5, before the market opens.Shopify, the commerce software company behind millions of online and in-store sellers, helps merchants run stores, manage products, process payments, and sell across different channels.Now, Bank of America is returning to the stock with a bullish view, arguing that the rise of AI shopping may not weaken Shopify’s role in online commerce. Bank of America returns to Shopify Bank of America reinstated coverage of Shopify with a Buy rating and a $150 price target in a July 7 note reviewed by TheStreet.The firm said that the company could be a “core beneficiary” of the move toward AI-driven, agentic commerce.BofA analyst Tal Liani said investor concern has centered on whether AI shopping tools could bypass merchant websites and shift discovery and transactions away from Shopify’s platform.More AI:The new Chinese AI model rattling U.S. tech investorsAnthropic restores access to Mythos 5 for select organizationsSoftBank CEO offers stinging critique of Musk’s AI betThis worry has been weighing on the stock, which is down around 24% year to date.BofA’s $150 price target implies nearly 25% upside from the stock’s price of $120 at the time.In the reinstatement note, Liani argues that investors may be looking at the wrong part of the shopping journey.If AI assistants become the new front door for product discovery, the value may shift toward the systems that enable transactions.This includes product catalogs, real-time inventory, pricing, checkout, payments, and fulfillment. Those are areas where Shopify is already embedded across its merchant base.BofA’s insight gives investors an early framework for what to watch: not just whether Shopify beats quarterly expectations, but whether its AI, payments, international, and enterprise growth story is gaining strength.
Shopify’s stock is down 25% year to date.Iryna Tolmachova / Getty Images
AI shopping has reached checkoutAI shopping is no longer a theoretical concept.Amazon recently introduced Alexa for Shopping, which combines Rufus and Alexa+ to help customers compare products, track price history, build carts, and reorder essentials.For eligible products, consumers can use Amazon’s Buy for Me agentic AI feature to shop across the web.Walmart and Google are also pushing AI shopping closer to the checkout process. Google’s Gemini shopping expansion includes partnerships with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair, and other retailers, allowing shoppers to find products and, in some cases, buy without leaving the Gemini chat.Microsoft is adding a similar layer to Copilot. The company’s Copilot Checkout feature can show a buy option inside an AI conversation, then open an in-chat checkout flow where shoppers enter shipping and payment details and confirm a purchase. Microsoft’s initial retail partners include Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Ashley Furniture, and some Etsy sellers, while PayPal, Stripe, and Shopify are working with Microsoft on payments.For merchants, this change is big.If shoppers increasingly buy through AI surfaces, merchants need their product data, inventory, pricing, and checkout systems to work inside those interfaces.But Shopify isn’t just waiting to see how AI changes online retail.It is helping build some of the infrastructure that could support it.The company already holds a big 14%+ share of total US e-commerce, second only to Amazon. To leverage this scale as consumer behavior shifts, Shopify has co-developed the Universal Commerce Platform (UCP), an open-standard technical framework built alongside major technology and payments companies, including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Stripe, and Salesforce. The UCP serves as a critical strategic lever by standardizing exactly how autonomous AI agents discover inventory, negotiate terms, and complete transactions across the web. By aligning with such companies, Shopify is effectively positioning its backend ecosystem to remain important as AI becomes an increasingly important part of digital commerce.Shopify earnings will test AI-commerce caseShopify’s first-quarter results already gave Wall Street a strong base for the AI-commerce debate.The company said revenue rose 34% in the quarter ended March 31, 2026, while free cash flow margin was 15%. Gross merchandise volume, the total dollar value of orders facilitated through Shopify’s platform, cleared $100 billion in the quarter, reaching $100.7 billion.Shopify also told investors it expected second-quarter revenue to grow at a high-twenties percentage rate year over year.It expects gross profit dollars to grow at a mid-twenties rate, operating expenses to be 35% to 36% of revenue, and free cash flow margin to be in the mid-teens.BofA’s longer-term model is more bullish than a single quarter. The firm expects Shopify revenue to grow 24% to 28% annually from fiscal 2026 through fiscal 2028, supported by three drivers: agentic commerce, international expansion, and larger enterprise merchantsThe AI data in the note is especially important because it shows the shift is already showing up in Shopify’s merchant activity. BofA said AI-driven traffic to Shopify merchants rose eightfold year over year in the first quarter, while orders from AI-powered searches increased about 13 times. New-buyer orders from AI surfaces were occurring at nearly twice the rate of traditional channels.BofA also highlighted Shopify’s Catalog product, which feeds inventory and pricing into AI agents, and Sidekick, Shopify’s AI assistant for merchants. The firm said traffic from Catalog-powered AI searches converted to purchases at twice the rate of general AI search traffic, while Sidekick weekly active users were up fourfold year over year.The point is not that every shopper is suddenly handing purchases to a bot. Most AI shopping systems still require confirmation, limits, or other controls before money changes hands. The bigger shift is that checkout is moving closer to the AI conversation itself.That could make Shopify less visible to consumers, but more important to merchants that need to be available wherever shoppers start.Shopify has more than one growth driverBofA’s call on Shopify is not limited to AI.International growth is another key part of the firm’s bullish case. BofA said international gross merchandise volume for Shopify rose 45% year over year in the first quarter, faster than overall GMV growth. The firm also said Shop Pay’s gross merchandise volume outside the U.S. grew more than 70% year over year.This is important because Shopify, which is already a major U.S. commerce platform, still has room to expand globally as more merchants adopt localized payments and cross-border tools.Shopify’s move upmarket is also important. The company built its reputation with small and midsize merchants, but larger sellers are now becoming a bigger part of the story.BofA said merchants with more than $25 million in GMV were Shopify’s fastest-growing cohort.The number of merchants doing more than $100 million in GMV doubled over the past two years. Shopify Plus’s monthly recurring revenue grew 20% year over year and represented 35% of total monthly recurring revenue, according to the note.That enterprise shift could make Shopify’s revenue more durable if larger merchants increasingly use its payments, checkout, point-of-sale, and commerce tools over time.Shopify faces AI and competition risksThe bullish case, however, is not without risks.BofA said downside risks to its $150 Shopify price target include greater-than-expected disintermediation from AI-native commerce platforms.A slower adoption of key merchant solutions, execution risk in international expansion, and increased competition as Shopify moves upmarket.Those risks matter because AI could still change the balance of power in online retail. If major AI platforms, marketplaces, or payment companies control more of the shopping journey, Shopify will need to prove that its infrastructure remains essential.For investors, August 5 will be the next checkpoint. Shopify’s Q2 earnings will show whether the company can keep posting strong growth while defending its place in the online shopping stack.For shoppers and merchants, the bigger question is direct: when AI changes how people buy, will Shopify become less visible, or more powerful behind the scenes?Related: Costco quietly makes a key credit card change
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