Financial Review: Green Street Capital (OTCMKTS:JAGR) vs. Alight (NYSE:ALIT)

Green Street Capital (OTCMKTS:JAGR) and Alight (NYSE:ALIT) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

96.7% of Alight shares are held by institutional investors. 72.4% of Green Street Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Alight shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Green Street Capital and Alight’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Green Street Capital	N/A	N/A	N/A
Alight	-7.95%	5.61%	2.52%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Green Street Capital and Alight, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Green Street Capital	0	0	0	0	0.00
Alight	0	1	8	0	2.89

Alight has a consensus target price of $10.83, suggesting a potential upside of 63.40%. Given Alight’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alight is more favorable than Green Street Capital.

Risk & Volatility

Green Street Capital has a beta of -0.5, meaning that its stock price is 150% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alight has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Green Street Capital and Alight”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Green Street Capital	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Alight	$3.36 billion	1.07	-$345.00 million	($0.48)	-13.81

Green Street Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alight.

Summary

Alight beats Green Street Capital on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Green Street Capital

Green Street Capital Corp. invests in environmental technology companies that require capital for expansion or are pursuing acquisition strategies. It also recycles grease trap waste for the production of biomass feedstock used in blending biofuels. Green Street Capital Corp. was formerly known as Jaguar Mining Enterprises Inc. and changed its name to Green Street Capital Corp. in July 2010. The company is based in Tampa, Florida.

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.