Head-To-Head Review: Cantor Equity Partners (CEP) and Its Competitors

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Cantor Equity Partners and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cantor Equity Partners	1	0	0	0	1.00
Cantor Equity Partners Competitors	241	267	217	3	1.98

As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 117.65%. Given Cantor Equity Partners’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cantor Equity Partners has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Cantor Equity Partners and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cantor Equity Partners	N/A	$1.54 million	143.90
Cantor Equity Partners Competitors	$203.60 million	-$18.84 million	93.13

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

Risk and Volatility

Cantor Equity Partners has a beta of -5.69, indicating that its share price is 669% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cantor Equity Partners’ peers have a beta of -0.09, indicating that their average share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

51.0% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by institutional investors. 42.7% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cantor Equity Partners	N/A	-12.06%	0.23%
Cantor Equity Partners Competitors	0.86%	0.95%	0.80%

Summary

Cantor Equity Partners peers beat Cantor Equity Partners on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

About Cantor Equity Partners

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.