Granite Point Mortgage Trust (GPMT) Competitors

Granite Point Mortgage Trust (NYSE:GPMT) and Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares (NASDAQ:CEP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.

Do analysts rate GPMT or CEP?

Granite Point Mortgage Trust presently has a consensus target price of $2.75, indicating a potential upside of 11.11%. Given Granite Point Mortgage Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Granite Point Mortgage Trust is more favorable than Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Granite Point Mortgage Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33
Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, GPMT or CEP?

Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Granite Point Mortgage Trust.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Granite Point Mortgage Trust	$37.67M	3.18	-$207.05M	-$3.08	-0.80
Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in GPMT or CEP?

51.6% of Granite Point Mortgage Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Granite Point Mortgage Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is GPMT or CEP more profitable?

Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Granite Point Mortgage Trust's net margin of -111.59%. Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares' return on equity of 0.00% beat Granite Point Mortgage Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Granite Point Mortgage Trust	-111.59%	-14.08%	-4.02%
Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community favor GPMT or CEP?

Granite Point Mortgage Trust received 209 more outperform votes than Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Granite Point Mortgage Trust	Outperform Votes 209 57.26%	Underperform Votes 156 42.74%
Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares	N/A	N/A

Does the media refer more to GPMT or CEP?

In the previous week, Granite Point Mortgage Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Granite Point Mortgage Trust and 1 mentions for Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares. Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Granite Point Mortgage Trust's score of 0.45 indicating that Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Granite Point Mortgage Trust	Neutral
Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares	Very Positive

Summary

Granite Point Mortgage Trust beats Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.