Alight, Inc. / Delaware key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Alight, Inc. / Delaware had return on equity of -115.7%, an operating margin of -136.6%, debt equal to 192.5% of equity and a current ratio of 1.31. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | — | — | 31.1% | 33.9% | 34.0% | 33.8% | 32.1% |
| Operating margin | 10.4% | 5.4% | −4.3% | −3.4% | −3.9% | −136.6% | −95.7% |
| Net margin | — | — | −2.8% | −14.5% | −6.7% | −136.9% | −90.9% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | — | — | 7.0% | 10.3% | 5.6% | 11.1% | 11.2% |
| Return on equity | — | — | −2.4% | −7.8% | −3.6% | −115.7% | −196.1% |
| Return on assets | — | — | −0.7% | −3.1% | −1.7% | −48.5% | −45.9% |
| Asset turnover | — | 0.39 | 0.24 | 0.22 | 0.25 | 0.35 | 0.51 |
| Current ratio | — | 1.25 | 1.20 | 1.27 | 1.42 | 1.31 | 1.42 |
| Debt to equity | — | 607.6% | 63.6% | 62.6% | 47.1% | 192.5% | 195.2% |
| Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest) | 1.2x | 0.6x | n/m | n/m | n/m | n/m | n/m |
| Effective tax rate | 42.1% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| SG&A as % of revenue | — | — | 21.7% | 24.7% | 25.1% | 19.2% | 18.6% |
| Capital spending as % of revenue | — | — | 5.9% | 5.9% | 5.2% | 4.9% | 4.7% |
| Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow | — | — | 7.7% | 16.3% | 143.5% | 60.4% | 27.7% |
| Quarter | 2024 Q3Sept 2024 | 2024 Q4Dec 2024 | 2025 Q1Mar 2025 | 2025 Q2Jun 2025 | 2025 Q3Sept 2025 | 2025 Q4Dec 2025 | 2026 Q1Mar 2026 | 2026 Q2Jun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | 31.4% | 39.9% | 31.2% | 33.3% | 33.4% | 36.8% | 29.2% | 27.8% |
| Operating margin | −7.6% | 6.5% | −1.5% | −191.3% | −248.0% | −114.9% | −4.1% | −7.8% |
| Net margin | −13.3% | 1.2% | −4.6% | −203.2% | −200.2% | −142.7% | −3.6% | −2.0% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | −9.4% | 13.5% | 8.0% | 11.0% | 9.2% | 15.2% | 9.9% | 9.4% |
| Current ratio | 1.30 | 1.42 | 1.18 | 1.16 | 1.21 | 1.31 | 1.42 | 1.42 |
| Debt to equity | 47.0% | 47.0% | 47.7% | 64.6% | 100.4% | 192.0% | 194.7% | 194.9% |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 25.6% | 22.2% | 19.0% | 24.6% | 16.3% | 17.5% | 19.7% | 21.3% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $973m of assets due within a year against $683m of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $973m short-term assets against $2.6bn of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $215m of cash against $2.0bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 195% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 68% to 195% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $353m of operating cash flow against $2.0bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of −$2.1bn against $96m of interest.
Moat
Weak moat
How hard Alight's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 6 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.
- Returns on capital 0 / 20
Net income has been a median -2.5% of total assets over 6 years.
- Pricing power 12 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 32.5%, moving by 0.8 percentage points (standard deviation) across 5 years.
- Durability 10 / 20
Operating margin has been a median -5.9%; its worst year was -95.7%.
- Cash conversion 15 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 5 of 5 years, at a median 10.4% of revenue.
AI disruption exposure: High. In this industry, the core product is information work that AI systems increasingly perform. The score above includes a 15-point deduction for that exposure (46 before it).
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