Alight (ALIT) Operating Margin (2020 - 2026)
Alight (ALIT) posted Operating Margin of -7.83% for Q2 2026, up 183.46 percentage points from -191.29% a year earlier but down 3.71 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Alight (ALIT) Operating Margin (2020 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For the trailing twelve months through Jun 30, 2026, Operating Margin at Alight was -95.65%, down 51.69 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2025, it was -136.60%, down 132.75 percentage points from FY2024.
- Annual Operating Margin shows a five-year change of -141.99 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- In prior years, Alight's Operating Margin was -3.86% in FY2024 (-0.46 pp), -3.39% in FY2023 (+0.86 pp), -4.26% in FY2022 (-8.44 pp) and 4.18% in FY2021 (-1.21 pp).
- Quarterly Operating Margin has run from a low of -248.03% in Q3 2025 to a high of 6.47% in Q4 2024 over five years.
- On a year-over-year basis, Operating Margin increased in four of the last eight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -44.47 percentage points.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for Operating Margin in the past five years was Q2 2026, with a gain of 183.46 percentage points; the weakest was Q3 2025, with a drop of 240.46 percentage points.
- According to Business Quant data, Operating Margin for the three prior quarters was -4.12% (Q1 2026), -114.85% (Q4 2025) and -248.03% (Q3 2025).
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | Operating Margin (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palantir Technologies | 450.50 Bn | 419.56 Bn | 1.64 Bn | 47.12% |
| 2 | Oracle | 401.01 Bn | 273.57 Bn | - | 34.78% |
| 3 | Sap Se | 257.03 Bn | 178.11 Bn | 8.40 Bn | 26.76% |
| 4 | Salesforce | 187.04 Bn | 142.92 Bn | 8.70 Bn | 20.55% |
| 5 | ServiceNow | 135.91 Bn | 114.37 Bn | 2.82 Bn | 4.06% |
| 6 | Automatic Data Processing | 104.14 Bn | 86.27 Bn | 2.51 Bn | -33.33% |
| 7 | Intuit | 72.30 Bn | 51.65 Bn | 3.44 Bn | 10.91% |
| 8 | Relx | 60.17 Bn | 57.14 Bn | - | - |
| 9 | Strategy | 55.31 Bn | 48.30 Bn | 81.55 Mn | -6,808.11% |
| 10 | Alight | 260.27 Mn | -608.73 Mn | 142.00 Mn | -7.83% |
Historic Data
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | -7.83% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | -4.12% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | -114.85% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | -248.03% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | -191.29% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | -1.46% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 6.47% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | -7.57% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | -9.67% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | -7.16% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 5.87% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | -8.08% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | -6.42% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | -6.83% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | -111.76% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | -6.67% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | -3.22% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | -0.28% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 3.62% |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 6.68% |
API Access
Alight Operating Margin 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-margin&ticker=ALIT&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "operating-margin", "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-margin&ticker=ALIT&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();