Human capital management provider Alight (NYSE: ALIT) will be reporting results this Thursday before market open. Here’s what investors should know.
Alight missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $533 million, down 4% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and full-year revenue guidance slightly missing analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Alight’s revenue to decline 3.7% year on year to $654.9 million, a further deceleration from the 1.6% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Alight has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Alight’s peers in the professional staffing & hr solutions segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Robert Half’s revenues decreased 5.8% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.1%, and Kforce reported a revenue decline of 3.4%, topping estimates by 0.8%. Robert Half traded up 27.8% following the results while Kforce was down 3.8%.
Read our full analysis of Robert Half’s results here and Kforce’s results here.
Questions about potential tariffs and corporate tax changes have caused much volatility in 2025. While some of the professional staffing & hr solutions stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 5.7% on average over the last month. Alight is down 16.3% during the same time.
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