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ALIT vs. MARA, APLD, ETSY, QMMM, AMTM, STNE, WPP, FTDR, DLO, and HNGE

Should you be buying Alight stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alight include Marathon Digital (MARA), Applied Digital (APLD), Etsy (ETSY), QMMM (QMMM), Amentum (AMTM), StoneCo (STNE), WPP (WPP), Frontdoor (FTDR), DLocal (DLO), and Hinge Health (HNGE). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Alight vs. Its Competitors

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

Alight presently has a consensus target price of $8.75, indicating a potential upside of 185.48%. Marathon Digital has a consensus target price of $24.50, indicating a potential upside of 51.80%. Given Alight's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Alight is more favorable than Marathon Digital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alight
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Marathon Digital
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.64

Alight has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marathon Digital has a beta of 6.35, suggesting that its stock price is 535% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alight$2.33B0.71-$157M-$2.21-1.39
Marathon Digital$656.38M9.11$541.25M$1.1114.54

Marathon Digital has a net margin of 85.02% compared to Alight's net margin of -50.37%. Alight's return on equity of 6.26% beat Marathon Digital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alight-50.37% 6.26% 3.21%
Marathon Digital 85.02%-2.11%-1.33%

In the previous week, Marathon Digital had 10 more articles in the media than Alight. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Marathon Digital and 3 mentions for Alight. Marathon Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Alight's score of 0.43 indicating that Marathon Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alight
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Marathon Digital
7 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

96.7% of Alight shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.5% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Alight shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Marathon Digital beats Alight on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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

MetricAlightINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.65B$19.83B$31.81B$21.36B
Dividend Yield5.06%3.55%3.14%3.52%
P/E Ratio-1.3975.68453.7829.19
Price / Sales0.71105.871,722.5883.67
Price / Cash2.8986.1338.0624.47
Price / Book0.399.007.234.52
Net Income-$157M$355.94M$809.16M$1.00B
7 Day Performance-10.64%-0.80%-0.38%-1.29%
1 Month Performance-19.55%7.18%6.85%2.06%
1 Year Performance-57.25%88.59%24,229.02%13.85%

Alight Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ALIT
Alight
4.1543 of 5 stars
$3.08
-2.4%
$8.75
+184.6%
-56.5%$1.66B$2.33B-1.399,500
MARA
Marathon Digital
3.7434 of 5 stars
$18.35
+0.3%
$24.50
+33.5%
+7.5%$6.80B$656.38M16.539Gap Down
APLD
Applied Digital
1.9892 of 5 stars
$24.45
+19.4%
$15.64
-36.0%
+231.2%$6.58B$144.19M-22.43121Options Volume
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ETSY
Etsy
3.4851 of 5 stars
$61.67
-5.1%
$57.80
-6.3%
+16.4%$6.11B$2.84B49.732,400
QMMM
QMMM
N/A$105.90
+27.8%
N/A+1,447.2%$6.06B$1.88M0.00N/A
AMTM
Amentum
3.7932 of 5 stars
$22.84
+2.2%
$27.40
+20.0%
N/A$5.56B$8.39B58.5653,000Positive News
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STNE
StoneCo
3.6826 of 5 stars
$19.19
-1.1%
$16.56
-13.7%
+67.4%$5.49B$13.76B-27.4116,793Positive News
WPP
WPP
1.5408 of 5 stars
$24.35
+1.3%
N/A-53.3%$5.25B$18.84B4.08108,044
FTDR
Frontdoor
3.469 of 5 stars
$68.04
+1.7%
$59.75
-12.2%
+37.9%$4.96B$1.97B20.072,120Positive News
DLO
DLocal
2.9962 of 5 stars
$15.22
+1.5%
$14.00
-8.0%
+83.0%$4.76B$745.97M31.711,095Analyst Downgrade
HNGE
Hinge Health
N/A$57.75
+1.5%
$56.47
-2.2%
N/A$4.53B$480.79M0.001,514News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Down

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This page (NYSE:ALIT) was last updated on 9/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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