Without bitcoin every coin in this market is a altcoins. And ethereum is the king of all altcoins. Ethereum is a platform based token and I'm other hand lite coin is a payment based token. They are form other lease I don't know why people compare ethereum with lite coin. Each are good project and trusted also.  The next one behind ethereum is xrp and it already crossed 2-3 yimes . so of you want to compare according to market cap then go with other comparison.