Pros
There are really only two pros for Align: 1) It's a great brand with high consumer recognition and a unique value proposition, and 2) It's highly profitable...huge amount of free cash flow, and very high profit margins.
Cons
Align has some of the lowest quality senior leaders I've seen in my career. The C-level leaders are a bunch of "good old boys" whose main qualification is being buddies with the CEO. They have no strategic thinking skills, no quantitative analysis skills, and no long-term vision for the company. They made a big acquisition in 2011, and have since been searching for a strategy to justify the acquisition...rather than making the acquisition to support a strategy. There are some exceptions, but cross-functional cooperation is generally poor, although lower-level managers work together better cross-functionally than the senior leaders do; the senior leadership team is dysfunctional.
