Alight (ALIT) Operating Expenses (2020 - 2026)
Alight (ALIT) posted Operating Expenses of $182 million for Q2 2026, down 84.7% from $1.19 billion a year earlier but up 2.2% from the prior quarter.
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Alight (ALIT) Operating Expenses (2020 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For the trailing twelve months through Jun 30, 2026, Operating Expenses at Alight was $2.85 billion, up 57.6% year-over-year; for FY2025, it was $3.86 billion, up 336.1% from FY2024.
- Annual Operating Expenses shows a five-year compound annual growth rate of 41.2% (FY2020 to FY2025).
- In prior years, Alight's Operating Expenses was $884 million in FY2024 (-0.8%), $891 million in FY2023 (+14.2%), $780 million in FY2022 (+67.0%) and $467 million in FY2021 (-32.0%).
- Quarterly Operating Expenses has run from a low of $51 million in Q4 2022 to a high of $1.5 billion in Q3 2025 over five years.
- On a year-over-year basis, Operating Expenses increased in four of the last eight quarters, with growth averaging 158.6%.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for Operating Expenses in the past five years was Q3 2025, with growth of 594.4%; the weakest was Q2 2026, with a decline of 84.7%.
- According to Business Quant data, Operating Expenses for the three prior quarters was $178 million (Q1 2026), $990 million (Q4 2025) and $1.5 billion (Q3 2025).
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | Opex (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palantir Technologies | 450.50 Bn | 419.56 Bn | 1.64 Bn | 726.59 Mn |
| 2 | Oracle | 401.01 Bn | 273.57 Bn | - | 12.62 Bn |
| 3 | Sap Se | 257.03 Bn | 178.11 Bn | 8.40 Bn | -8.41 Bn |
| 4 | Salesforce | 187.04 Bn | 142.92 Bn | 8.70 Bn | 6.37 Bn |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 135.91 Bn | 114.37 Bn | 2.82 Bn | 2.66 Bn |
| 6 | Automatic Data Processing | 104.14 Bn | 86.27 Bn | 2.51 Bn | 4.34 Bn |
| 7 | Intuit | 72.30 Bn | 51.65 Bn | 3.44 Bn | 3.88 Bn |
| 8 | Relx | 60.17 Bn | 57.14 Bn | - | - |
| 9 | Strategy | 55.31 Bn | 48.30 Bn | 81.55 Mn | 8.41 Bn |
| 10 | Alight | 260.27 Mn | -608.73 Mn | 142.00 Mn | 182.00 Mn |
Historic Data
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 182.00 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 178.00 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 990.00 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 1.50 Bn |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 1.19 Bn |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 179.00 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 227.00 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 216.00 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 219.00 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 222.00 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 230.00 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 211.00 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 223.00 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 227.00 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 51.00 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 262.00 Mn |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 242.00 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 225.00 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 213.00 Mn |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 172.00 Mn |
API Access
Alight Operating Expenses API
Pull this series into your own models, spreadsheets and apps with the Business Quant
Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
frequency, period or values and it follows. Swap YOUR_API_KEY for your own key.
https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-expenses&ticker=ALIT&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "operating-expenses", "ticker": "ALIT", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=operating-expenses&ticker=ALIT&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();