Alight Inc Stock Price, News & Analysis

Alight (NYSE: ALIT) announced a CEO transition: Rohit Verma will join as CEO and board member effective January 1, 2026, and Dave Guilmette will step down as CEO and from the board on December 31, 2025. The board highlighted Verma’s track record, including four consecutive years of record revenue growth as CEO of Crawford & Company, and said his operational, M&A and client-focused experience complements Alight’s benefits administration capabilities.

The release notes Guilmette’s work improving delivery operations, product innovation, liquidity and margins, and references Alight’s roughly 9,000 colleagues. Verma stated priorities of innovation, service excellence and returning Alight to growth.

Alight (NYSE: ALIT) earned top 5 rankings in User Experience and Vendor Satisfaction in Sapient Insights Group’s 28th Annual HR Systems Survey for the enterprise category.

The survey included responses from HR professionals at 4,670 organizations worldwide and referenced 1,000 technology vendors. Sapient highlighted Alight’s adoption among large enterprises, new RFP momentum, compliance reliability, advanced analytics, and personalized engagement tools. Alight cited its 2025 Employee Mindset Study showing 64% of employees with comprehensive benefits report an exceptional experience, 20 points higher than those without.

Alight (NYSE: ALIT) reported third quarter 2025 results for the period ended September 30, 2025: revenue $533M (down 4.0% YoY), gross profit $178M (33.4% margin), and adjusted EBITDA $138M (vs. $118M prior year).

The company recognized a $1,338M non‑cash goodwill impairment$0.12. Cash was $205M and total debt $2,010M. Board declared a $0.04 quarterly dividend and repurchased $25M of stock. 2025 guidance: revenue $2,252M–$2,282M; adjusted EBITDA $595M–$620M; adjusted diluted EPS $0.54–$0.58; free cash flow $225M–$250M.

Alight (NYSE: ALIT) announced that its Board unanimously voted to seek stockholder approval to declassify the Board via amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation at the 2026 annual meeting expected in Q2 2026.

The proposal would phase out the current three-class, staggered three-year director terms so that directors elected at the 2027 annual meeting and thereafter serve one-year terms. The Company said the change responds to stockholder feedback favoring annual elections and will be detailed in the 2026 proxy statement to be filed with the SEC.

Alight (NYSE: ALIT) announced an expanded multi-year collaboration with IBM to deploy IBM watsonx across Alight Worklife and its benefits administration platform. The partnership creates a virtual AI innovation lab, targets pilots in early 2026 and a broader rollout in the first half of 2026, and uses watsonx Orchestrate (over 500 tools) and watsonx.governance for oversight.

Early prototypes claim >90% potential employee productivity improvement; IBM cited a separate “Client Zero” effort expected to yield >$4 billion in productivity savings.

MetLife (NYSE: MET) and Alight (NYSE: ALIT) announced a strategic collaboration to add MetLife institutional income annuities to the Alight Worklife platform, which serves nearly 12 million defined contribution participants.

The integration makes MetLife Guaranteed Income (MGI) fixed immediate annuities and Retirement Income Insurance® (RII) QLAC fixed deferred annuities available inside DC plans, enabled by annuity-friendly provisions of the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0. The firms said the move aims to help participants convert savings into predictable lifetime monthly income and to provide plan sponsors streamlined administration and educational tools.

Alight (NYSE: ALIT) launched a limited-release conversational generative AI assistant on Alight Worklife to guide employees through the 2025 annual enrollment process with personalized, context-aware support.

The assistant integrates employer plan documents and eligibility data, supports desktop and mobile continuity, and is being piloted with select clients in 2025 with a planned general release in 2026. Alight cited analysis of >10 million individuals showing 96% digital enrollment and a 69% increase in mobile app usage year-over-year.

Alight (NYSE: ALIT) will release third quarter 2025 earnings results before market open on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.

Management will discuss the results on a webcast at 8:30 a.m. ET the same day. The webcast and a presentation of financial information will be publicly available at the company’s Events & Presentations page, with a replay offered after the live event.

Alight (NYSE: ALIT) appointed Stephen Rush as Chief Commercial Officer, effective October 8, 2025. Rush will lead Alight’s global commercial sales and marketing strategy to accelerate growth across all solution lines and will report to CEO Dave Guilmette. He brings 30 years of commercial and sales leadership experience, including over 25 years with Alight and predecessor organizations. Most recently, Rush was Senior Vice President and Head of the Americas for HCL Software, where his commercial transformation work helped his organization significantly exceed annual revenue targets. Rush holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Drew University.