ALIT vs. LYFT, GETY, ETSY, ZG, AKAM, CLVT, FORM, FRSH, IPGP, and SATS
Should you be buying Alight stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alight include Lyft (LYFT), Getty Images (GETY), Etsy (ETSY), Zillow Group (ZG), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Clarivate (CLVT), FormFactor (FORM), Freshworks (FRSH), IPG Photonics (IPGP), and EchoStar (SATS). 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 business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
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 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 currently has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 49.07%. Lyft has a consensus target price of $16.70, indicating a potential upside of 0.46%. Given Alight's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Alight is more favorable than Lyft.
In the previous week, Lyft had 33 more articles in the media than Alight. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Lyft and 4 mentions for Alight. Alight's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Lyft's score of -0.31 indicating that Alight is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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 has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lyft has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its stock 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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