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ALIT vs. FTAI, ICLR, BILI, FOUR, MEDP, HQY, MARA, ETSY, LYFT, and WPP

Should you be buying Alight stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alight include FTAI Aviation (FTAI), Icon (ICLR), Bilibili (BILI), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), Medpace (MEDP), HealthEquity (HQY), Marathon Digital (MARA), Etsy (ETSY), Lyft (LYFT), and WPP (WPP). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Alight vs. Its Competitors

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

FTAI Aviation has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alight has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

In the previous week, FTAI Aviation had 7 more articles in the media than Alight. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for FTAI Aviation and 6 mentions for Alight. FTAI Aviation's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Alight's score of 0.57 indicating that FTAI Aviation is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
FTAI Aviation
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Alight
1 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

FTAI Aviation presently has a consensus target price of $171.83, indicating a potential upside of 46.64%. Alight has a consensus target price of $9.86, indicating a potential upside of 70.98%. Given Alight's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alight is more favorable than FTAI Aviation.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
FTAI Aviation
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.08
Alight
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86

FTAI Aviation pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Alight pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. FTAI Aviation pays out 571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alight pays out -114.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alight is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
FTAI Aviation$1.73B6.93$8.68M$0.21558.00
Alight$2.32B1.34-$157M-$0.14-41.18

89.0% of FTAI Aviation shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.7% of Alight shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of FTAI Aviation shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Alight shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

FTAI Aviation has a net margin of 3.74% compared to Alight's net margin of -2.65%. FTAI Aviation's return on equity of 438.32% beat Alight's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
FTAI Aviation3.74% 438.32% 8.41%
Alight -2.65%5.74%2.86%

Summary

FTAI Aviation beats Alight on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ALIT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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

MetricAlightINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$3.10B$18.59B$28.91B$21.10B
Dividend Yield2.80%2.76%3.01%3.59%
P/E Ratio-41.1877.0934.2328.44
Price / Sales1.3471.521,711.0158.59
Price / Cash5.2094.1238.3822.92
Price / Book0.738.767.794.69
Net Income-$157M$341.62M$782.91M$995.51M
7 Day Performance5.20%2.45%0.81%1.65%
1 Month Performance2.31%11.59%6.12%4.54%
1 Year Performance-24.64%55.50%52,641.07%9.99%

Alight Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ALIT
Alight
3.8762 of 5 stars
$5.77
+1.3%
$9.86
+71.0%
-22.8%$3.10B$2.32B-41.189,500News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
FTAI
FTAI Aviation
4.7483 of 5 stars
$113.88
+0.3%
$171.83
+50.9%
+11.3%$11.68B$1.73B542.2940News Coverage
Positive News
ICLR
Icon
4.0687 of 5 stars
$139.63
-2.7%
$198.08
+41.9%
-40.3%$11.28B$8.28B15.2141,900Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
BILI
Bilibili
1.5437 of 5 stars
$24.95
-1.0%
$23.79
-4.7%
+59.9%$10.43B$3.68B-124.748,088Gap Down
FOUR
Shift4 Payments
2.7609 of 5 stars
$105.98
-0.5%
$116.70
+10.1%
+55.7%$9.39B$3.33B35.814,000Positive News
MEDP
Medpace
3.7182 of 5 stars
$308.88
-1.0%
$344.82
+11.6%
+17.6%$8.88B$2.11B23.585,900Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
HQY
HealthEquity
3.2399 of 5 stars
$97.08
-0.6%
$118.55
+22.1%
+20.4%$8.39B$1.20B70.863,120Positive News
MARA
Marathon Digital
3.6918 of 5 stars
$18.83
-3.5%
$21.28
+13.0%
-14.9%$6.63B$656.38M-12.999Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
ETSY
Etsy
3.5574 of 5 stars
$60.41
+1.3%
$51.13
-15.4%
+3.4%$6.30B$2.81B43.152,400Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Options Volume
LYFT
Lyft
4.4823 of 5 stars
$14.77
+0.1%
$16.82
+13.9%
+17.1%$6.17B$5.79B98.472,934Trending News
WPP
WPP
2.0276 of 5 stars
$27.98
+0.5%
N/A-38.3%$6.04B$18.84B4.69108,044High Trading Volume

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This page (NYSE:ALIT) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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