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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

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

Alight, Inc. / Delaware: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year2019Dec 20192020Dec 20202022Dec 20222023Dec 20232024Dec 20242025Dec 2025LTMJun 2026
Gross margin——31.1%33.9%34.0%33.8%32.1%
Operating margin10.4%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—0.390.240.220.250.350.51
Current ratio—1.251.201.271.421.311.42
Debt to equity—607.6%63.6%62.6%47.1%192.5%195.2%
Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest)1.2x0.6xn/mn/mn/mn/mn/m
Effective tax rate42.1%——————
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%

Returns use average equity or assets over the year. Return on equity is left blank when equity is negative or so small that the ratio says nothing (above ±200%); interest cover is left blank above 200 times. Price-based ratios such as P/E are on the valuation page.

Financial health

1 of 7 checks passed · June 30, 2026
What it owns · $4.3bn
Short-term assets $973mLonger-term assets $3.3bn
What it owes, and who funded it · $4.3bn
Short-term liabilities $683mLonger-term liabilities $2.6bnShareholders' equity $1.0bn
  • 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.

From Alight, Inc. / Delaware's latest balance sheet as filed. Checks are fixed, documented rules (methodology), counted only where the company reports the figures — a dot means the filing doesn't break the item out. Descriptions of reported data, not advice.

Moat

31 /100

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).

A rules-based reading of reported figures, not a forecast and not investment advice. How the score is built: methodology.

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Figures from Alight, Inc. / Delaware's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 26, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Alight, Inc. / Delaware.