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Alight (ALIT) Competitors

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$7.06 -0.04 (-0.56%)
(As of 12/17/2024 ET)

ALIT vs. FTAI, RTO, WPP, ALLE, CART, MEDP, ULS, GLOB, STN, and HQY

Should you be buying Alight stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alight include FTAI Aviation (FTAI), Rentokil Initial (RTO), WPP (WPP), Allegion (ALLE), Maplebear (CART), Medpace (MEDP), UL Solutions (ULS), Globant (GLOB), Stantec (STN), and HealthEquity (HQY). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Alight vs.

Alight (NYSE:ALIT) and FTAI Aviation (NYSE:FTAI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk and community ranking.

FTAI Aviation has a net margin of 1.59% compared to Alight's net margin of -7.95%. FTAI Aviation's return on equity of 206.25% beat Alight's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alight-7.95% 5.61% 2.52%
FTAI Aviation 1.59%206.25%8.37%

Alight currently has a consensus price target of $10.83, suggesting a potential upside of 53.56%. FTAI Aviation has a consensus price target of $168.45, suggesting a potential upside of 29.43%. Given Alight's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Alight is more favorable than FTAI Aviation.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alight
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.89
FTAI Aviation
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

FTAI Aviation has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alight. FTAI Aviation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alight$3.36B1.14-$345M-$0.48-14.70
FTAI Aviation$1.55B8.62$212.02M-$0.10-1,301.50

96.7% of Alight shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.0% of FTAI Aviation shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Alight shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of FTAI Aviation shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

FTAI Aviation received 291 more outperform votes than Alight when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.36% of users gave Alight an outperform vote while only 64.12% of users gave FTAI Aviation an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AlightOutperform Votes
45
80.36%
Underperform Votes
11
19.64%
FTAI AviationOutperform Votes
336
64.12%
Underperform Votes
188
35.88%

Alight has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FTAI Aviation has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, FTAI Aviation had 11 more articles in the media than Alight. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for FTAI Aviation and 4 mentions for Alight. FTAI Aviation's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Alight's score of 0.92 indicating that FTAI Aviation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alight
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
FTAI Aviation
9 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

FTAI Aviation beats Alight on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ALIT vs. The Competition

MetricAlightBusiness services IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$3.85B$20.52B$24.71B$19.67B
Dividend YieldN/A2.53%2.70%3.51%
P/E Ratio-14.7029.03276.5543.78
Price / Sales1.1410.122,926.5017.61
Price / Cash4.8435.3433.8021.73
Price / Book0.826.107.835.46
Net Income-$345M$533.62M$659.53M$987.68M
7 Day Performance-4.27%-0.86%-0.18%-2.32%
1 Month Performance-8.02%2.84%9.95%0.63%
1 Year Performance-12.63%28.37%25.54%16.39%

Alight Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ALIT
Alight
3.4871 of 5 stars
$7.06
-0.6%
$10.83
+53.6%
-14.0%$3.85B$3.36B-14.7018,000
FTAI
FTAI Aviation
4.3238 of 5 stars
$130.80
-0.7%
$166.18
+27.1%
+193.8%$13.41B$1.17B-1,317.07170Analyst Forecast
Positive News
RTO
Rentokil Initial
1.9085 of 5 stars
$26.17
-0.7%
$29.00
+10.8%
-3.6%$13.21B$6.68B0.0062,900
WPP
WPP
1.8481 of 5 stars
$55.65
-0.6%
N/A+15.1%$12.63B$14.85B9.52114,732
ALLE
Allegion
4.3842 of 5 stars
$138.90
+0.1%
$144.60
+4.1%
+16.3%$12.07B$3.65B21.3312,400Short Interest ↓
Positive News
CART
Maplebear
4.2919 of 5 stars
$42.53
+1.8%
$47.14
+10.8%
+74.0%$10.93B$3.04B28.563,380Positive News
MEDP
Medpace
4.381 of 5 stars
$348.25
+0.7%
$380.56
+9.3%
+16.3%$10.82B$1.89B30.295,900
ULS
UL Solutions
1.8859 of 5 stars
$51.42
+1.1%
$49.00
-4.7%
N/A$10.29B$2.68B0.0015,233
GLOB
Globant
4.1892 of 5 stars
$219.74
+1.4%
$229.00
+4.2%
-6.8%$9.47B$2.35B56.9529,150Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
STN
Stantec
4.1034 of 5 stars
$82.23
-0.5%
N/A+6.7%$9.38B$4.80B37.5528,000
HQY
HealthEquity
3.3507 of 5 stars
$93.31
-2.4%
$110.71
+18.7%
+45.9%$8.09B$1.15B87.723,150

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This page (NYSE:ALIT) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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