ALIT vs. GRAB, AKAM, RBA, Z, ZG, CART, WEX, ETSY, HQY, and LYFT
Should you be buying Alight stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alight include Grab (GRAB), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), RB Global (RBA), Zillow Group (Z), Zillow Group (ZG), Maplebear (CART), WEX (WEX), Etsy (ETSY), HealthEquity (HQY), and Lyft (LYFT). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Grab (NASDAQ:GRAB) 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 risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
55.5% of Grab shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.7% of Alight shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Grab shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Alight shares are owned by company 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 higher revenue and earnings than Grab. Grab is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alight received 10 more outperform votes than Grab when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.27% of users gave Alight an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave Grab an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Grab had 24 more articles in the media than Alight. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Grab and 5 mentions for Alight. Grab's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Alight's score of 0.29 indicating that Alight is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alight has a net margin of -9.19% compared to Alight's net margin of -11.86%. Grab's return on equity of 5.14% beat Alight's return on equity.
Grab presently has a consensus price target of $5.07, suggesting a potential upside of 38.19%. Alight has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 54.84%. Given Grab's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alight is more favorable than Grab.
Grab has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alight has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alight beats Grab on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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