Alight Balance Sheet Health

Financial Health criteria checks 5/6

Alight has a total shareholder equity of $4.3B and total debt of $2.0B, which brings its debt-to-equity ratio to 47%. Its total assets and total liabilities are $8.3B and $3.9B respectively. Alight's EBIT is $16.0M making its interest coverage ratio 0.1. It has cash and short-term investments of $326.0M.

Key information

47.0%

Debt to equity ratio

US$2.03b

Debt

Interest coverage ratio0.1x
CashUS$326.00m
EquityUS$4.33b
Total liabilitiesUS$3.95b
Total assetsUS$8.27b

Recent financial health updates

Recent updates

Alight: Lackluster Growth And Expensive

Nov 28

Alight, Inc.'s (NYSE:ALIT) Shareholders Might Be Looking For Exit

Nov 07
Alight, Inc.'s (NYSE:ALIT) Shareholders Might Be Looking For Exit

Analysts Have Just Cut Their Alight, Inc. (NYSE:ALIT) Revenue Estimates By 32%

Aug 14
Analysts Have Just Cut Their Alight, Inc. (NYSE:ALIT) Revenue Estimates By 32%

Alight (NYSE:ALIT) Takes On Some Risk With Its Use Of Debt

Jul 21
Alight (NYSE:ALIT) Takes On Some Risk With Its Use Of Debt

Alight: Rate Of Capital Deployment Likely Won't Unlock Economic Value

Jul 11

Alight, Inc.'s (NYSE:ALIT) P/S Is On The Mark

Jun 14
Alight, Inc.'s (NYSE:ALIT) P/S Is On The Mark

Alight, Inc. Is Preparing To Ignite A New Spark After Spin-Out Deal

Apr 20

Is Alight (NYSE:ALIT) A Risky Investment?

Apr 16
Is Alight (NYSE:ALIT) A Risky Investment?

Alight: Time To Buy, But Volatility Risks Not Excluded

Jan 26

Alight, Inc.'s (NYSE:ALIT) P/S Is On The Mark

Dec 04
Alight, Inc.'s (NYSE:ALIT) P/S Is On The Mark

Alight Q3 Earnings: Good But Not Great

Nov 01

Alight: Weak BPaaS Guide Is Not A Big Issue, Reiterate Buy

Aug 15

Alight: Turning Positive On The Stock Given The Updated Outlook (Rating Upgrade)

Jun 23

Analyst Estimates: Here's What Brokers Think Of Alight, Inc. (NYSE:ALIT) After Its First-Quarter Report

May 12
Analyst Estimates: Here's What Brokers Think Of Alight, Inc. (NYSE:ALIT) After Its First-Quarter Report

Alight reports Q4 results

Feb 21

Alight falls on report of Thomas H. Lee offering 11.4M share block

Jan 19

Alight: Good Secular Trends, But Stock Is Only Slightly Undervalued

Dec 12

Financial Position Analysis

Short Term Liabilities: ALIT's short term assets ($1.2B) exceed its short term liabilities ($926.0M).

Long Term Liabilities: ALIT's short term assets ($1.2B) do not cover its long term liabilities ($3.0B).


Debt to Equity History and Analysis

Debt Level: ALIT's net debt to equity ratio (39.5%) is considered satisfactory.

Reducing Debt: ALIT's debt to equity ratio has reduced from 460.4% to 47% over the past 5 years.


Balance Sheet


Cash Runway Analysis

For companies that have on average been loss-making in the past, we assess whether they have at least 1 year of cash runway.

Stable Cash Runway: Whilst unprofitable ALIT has sufficient cash runway for more than 3 years if it maintains its current positive free cash flow level.

Forecast Cash Runway: ALIT is unprofitable but has sufficient cash runway for more than 3 years, due to free cash flow being positive and growing by 8.7% per year.


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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2024/12/22 10:38
End of Day Share Price 2024/12/20 00:00
Earnings2024/09/30
Annual Earnings2023/12/31

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Analyst Sources

Alight, Inc. is covered by 9 analysts. 8 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Heather BalskyBofA Global Research
Joseph VafiCanaccord Genuity
Peter ChristiansenCitigroup Inc