ALIT vs. LYFT, ETSY, GETY, ZG, AKAM, ST, FRSH, PHI, ALGM, and STNE
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), Sensata Technologies (ST), Freshworks (FRSH), PLDT (PHI), Allegro MicroSystems (ALGM), and StoneCo (STNE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) and Alight (NYSE:ALIT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Lyft has a net margin of -7.73% compared to Lyft's net margin of -7.80%. Lyft's return on equity of 5.09% beat Alight's return on equity.
83.1% of Lyft shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.7% of Alight shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Lyft shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Alight shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Lyft had 25 more articles in the media than Alight. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Lyft and 3 mentions for Alight. Lyft's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Alight's score of 0.05 indicating that Alight is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lyft received 262 more outperform votes than Alight when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Alight an outperform vote while only 56.70% of users gave Lyft an outperform vote.
Lyft currently has a consensus target price of $14.60, indicating a potential downside of 9.01%. Alight has a consensus target price of $12.71, indicating a potential upside of 39.72%. Given Lyft's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alight is more favorable than Lyft.
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.
Lyft has a beta of 1.98, indicating that its stock price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alight has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alight beats Lyft on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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