Financial Survey: Alight (NYSE:ALIT) versus Getty Images (NYSE:GETY)

Alight (NYSE:ALIT) and Getty Images (NYSE:GETY) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Alight and Getty Images”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alight	$2.33 billion	0.84	-$157.00 million	($2.21)	-1.65
Getty Images	$939.29 million	0.80	$39.53 million	($0.28)	-6.46

Getty Images has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alight. Getty Images is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for Alight and Getty Images, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alight	0	1	7	0	2.88
Getty Images	1	4	1	0	2.00

Alight presently has a consensus price target of $8.9375, indicating a potential upside of 144.86%. Getty Images has a consensus price target of $4.0250, indicating a potential upside of 122.38%. Given Alight’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alight is more favorable than Getty Images.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

96.7% of Alight shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.8% of Getty Images shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Alight shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.2% of Getty Images 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.

Profitability

This table compares Alight and Getty Images’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alight	-50.37%	6.26%	3.21%
Getty Images	-12.19%	-14.39%	-3.84%

Volatility and Risk

Alight has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Getty Images has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Alight beats Getty Images on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Alight

Alight, Inc. provides cloud-based integrated digital human capital and business solutions worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Employer Solutions and Professional Services. The Employer Solutions segment offers employee wellbeing, integrated benefits administration, healthcare navigation, financial wellbeing, leave of absence management, retiree healthcare and payroll; and operates AI-led capabilities software. The Professional Services segment offers consulting offerings, such as cloud advisory, deployment, and optimization services for cloud platforms. The company provides Alight Worklife, an intuitive, cloud-based employee engagement platform. Its solutions enable employees to enrich their health, wealth, and wellbeing that helps organizations achieve a high-performance culture. Alight, Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

About Getty Images

Getty Images Holdings, Inc. offers creative and editorial visual content solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Its products include Getty Images that offers creative and editorial content including stills, music and video which focuses on corporate, agency, and media customers; iStock.com, an e-commerce offering where customers have access to creative stills and video; Unsplash.com, a platform offering free stock photo downloads and paid subscriptions targeted to the high-growth prosumer and semi-professional creator segments; and Unsplash+ that provides access to unique model released content with expanded legal protections. In addition, it maintains privately-owned photographic archives covering news, sport, and entertainment, as well as variety of subjects, including lifestyle, business, science, health, wellness, beauty, sports, transportation, and travel. Further, the company provides music licensing, and digital asset management and distribution services. It serves media outlets, advertising agencies and corporations, individual creators, and prosumers. The company was formerly known as Getty Images, Inc. Getty Images Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.