ALIT vs. LYFT, ETSY, GETY, ZG, AKAM, NVMI, STNE, PHI, DV, and SMAR
Should you be buying Alight stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alight include Lyft (LYFT), Etsy (ETSY), Getty Images (GETY), Zillow Group (ZG), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Nova (NVMI), StoneCo (STNE), PLDT (PHI), DoubleVerify (DV), and Smartsheet (SMAR). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Alight (NYSE:ALIT) and Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
96.7% of Alight shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Lyft shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Alight shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Lyft shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alight presently has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 49.07%. Lyft has a consensus price target of $16.70, suggesting a potential upside of 0.46%. Given Alight's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Alight is more favorable than Lyft.
Lyft received 260 more outperform votes than Alight when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.27% of users gave Alight an outperform vote while only 55.68% of users gave Lyft an outperform vote.
Lyft has higher revenue and earnings than Alight. Lyft is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lyft had 33 more articles in the media than Alight. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Lyft and 7 mentions for Alight. Alight's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Lyft's score of -0.31 indicating that Alight is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lyft has a net margin of -3.94% compared to Alight's net margin of -9.19%. Alight's return on equity of 5.14% beat Lyft's return on equity.
Alight has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lyft has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alight beats Lyft on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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