Analyzing Cantor Equity Partners (CEP) and Its Rivals

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

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%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets 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	215	264	217	3	2.01

As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 66.42%. Given Cantor Equity Partners’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cantor Equity Partners has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Volatility and Risk

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

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 company insiders. Comparatively, 42.9% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Cantor Equity Partners and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cantor Equity Partners	N/A	$1.54 million	151.90
Cantor Equity Partners Competitors	$48.56 million	-$19.62 million	92.69

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.