Critical Review: Cantor Equity Partners (CEPO) & Its Rivals

Cantor Equity Partners (NASDAQ:CEPO) is one of 89 public 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 dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Cantor Equity Partners and its competitors, as provided 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	206	262	217	3	2.02

As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 79.61%. 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.

Institutional and Insider 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 insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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	N/A	N/A
Cantor Equity Partners Competitors	0.86%	0.95%	0.80%

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cantor Equity Partners	N/A	-$80,000.00	87.50
Cantor Equity Partners Competitors	$47.83 million	-$19.62 million	93.63

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

Summary

Cantor Equity Partners competitors beat Cantor Equity Partners on 11 of the 12 factors compared.

About Cantor Equity Partners

Cantor Equity Partners I, Inc. is a blank check company. It was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share 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.