LYFT vs. ALIT, WU, ETSY, WEX, ZG, FVRR, RBA, AKAM, FN, and QLYS
Should you be buying Lyft stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lyft include Alight (ALIT), Western Union (WU), Etsy (ETSY), WEX (WEX), Zillow Group (ZG), Fiverr International (FVRR), RB Global (RBA), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Fabrinet (FN), and Qualys (QLYS).
Alight (NYSE:ALIT) and Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
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.
Alight presently has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 56.45%. Lyft has a consensus target price of $16.70, indicating a potential downside of 2.82%. Given Lyft's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Alight is more favorable than Lyft.
In the previous week, Lyft had 54 more articles in the media than Alight. MarketBeat recorded 76 mentions for Lyft and 22 mentions for Alight. Lyft's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Alight's score of 0.32 indicating that Alight is being referred to more favorably in the media.
96.7% of Alight shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Lyft shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Alight shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Lyft shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alight has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lyft has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lyft has a net margin of -3.94% compared to Lyft's net margin of -9.19%. Lyft's return on equity of 5.14% beat Alight's return on equity.
Summary
Alight beats Lyft on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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