Critical Survey: Cantor Equity Partners (CEP) vs. Its Peers

Cantor Equity Partners (NASDAQ:CEP) is one of 89 publicly-traded companies in the “UNCLASSIFIED” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Cantor Equity Partners to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Cantor Equity Partners and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cantor Equity Partners	1	0	0	0	1.00
Cantor Equity Partners Competitors	225	265	217	3	2.00

As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 96.81%. Given Cantor Equity Partners’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cantor Equity Partners has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk and Volatility

Cantor Equity Partners has a beta of -5.69, suggesting that its stock price is 669% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cantor Equity Partners’ competitors have a beta of -0.08, suggesting that their average stock price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Cantor Equity Partners and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cantor Equity Partners	N/A	-146.51%	2.69%
Cantor Equity Partners Competitors	0.86%	0.95%	0.80%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

52.0% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of Cantor Equity Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 42.9% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Cantor Equity Partners and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cantor Equity Partners	N/A	$1.54 million	163.50
Cantor Equity Partners Competitors	$41.37 million	-$18.54 million	93.19

Cantor Equity Partners’ competitors have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Cantor Equity Partners. Cantor Equity Partners is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Cantor Equity Partners competitors beat Cantor Equity Partners on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

Cantor Equity Partners Company Profile

Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. is a blank check company, which engages in the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on November 11, 2020 and is headquartered in New York, NY.