Cannae Holdings (CNNE)
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Rating:47Neutral
Price Target:
$13.00
▼(-0.61% Downside)
Action:ReiteratedDate:03/10/26
The score is held down primarily by weak financial performance (multi-year revenue declines, ongoing losses, and consistently negative operating/free cash flow). Technicals also remain bearish with price below key moving averages and negative MACD, despite oversold signals. Offsetting factors include shareholder-friendly capital actions and improved liquidity/portfolio focus from the earnings call, plus a supportive dividend yield and a modestly positive financing/capital-structure event.
Positive Factors
Portfolio monetization / liquidity
The $630M D&B sale materially strengthens corporate liquidity and creates durable dry powder to redeploy into higher-conviction opportunities. This reduces the near-term need for distressed asset sales or added leverage and supports sustained capital allocation, investments, and optionality over months.
Negative Factors
Multi-year revenue decline & negative cash flow
Persistent top-line contraction and consecutive years of negative operating and free cash flow materially limit the company's ability to self-fund operations, capex, or strategic investments. This forces reliance on asset sales, one-time monetizations, or external financing, constraining durable operational resilience.
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Positive Factors
Negative Factors
Portfolio monetization / liquidity
The $630M D&B sale materially strengthens corporate liquidity and creates durable dry powder to redeploy into higher-conviction opportunities. This reduces the near-term need for distressed asset sales or added leverage and supports sustained capital allocation, investments, and optionality over months.
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Cannae Holdings (CNNE) vs. SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
Market Cap
$625.85M
Dividend Yield3.45%
Average Volume (3M)689.37K
Price to Earnings (P/E)―
Beta (1Y)0.97
Revenue Growth-6.39%
EPS Growth-84.88%
CountryUS
Employees7,317
SectorConsumer Cyclical
Sector Strength84
IndustryRestaurants
Share Statistics
EPS (TTM)-1.93
Shares Outstanding46,324,720
10 Day Avg. Volume599,835
30 Day Avg. Volume689,369
Financial Highlights & Ratios
PEG Ratio-0.02
Price to Book (P/B)0.87
Price to Sales (P/S)2.10
P/FCF Ratio-52.59
Enterprise Value/Market Cap1.45
Enterprise Value/Revenue2.14
Enterprise Value/Gross Profit4.54K
Enterprise Value/Ebitda-4.98
Forecast
1Y Price Target
$17.00Price Target Upside29.97% Upside
Rating ConsensusModerate Buy
Number of Analyst Covering2
EPS Forecast (FY)-1.9
Revenue Forecast (FY)$396.50M
Cannae Holdings Business Overview & Revenue Model
Company Description
Cannae Holdings, Inc. is a principal investment firm. The firm primarily invests in restaurants, technology enabled healthcare services, financial services and more. It takes both minority and majority stakes. Cannae Holdings, Inc. is based in Las...
How the Company Makes Money
Cannae primarily makes money through (1) earnings and cash flows generated by its consolidated operating subsidiaries (to the extent it owns controlling interests and consolidates their results), and (2) investment returns from its non-controlled ...
Cannae Holdings Earnings Call Summary
Earnings Call Date:Feb 23, 2026
(Q4-2025)
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Next Earnings Date:May 13, 2026
Earnings Call Sentiment Positive
The call presented a mix of meaningful strategic successes and near-term operational challenges. Positives include a major liquidity-generating sale (Dun & Bradstreet for $630 million), substantial capital returned to shareholders ($323 million buybacks and a 25% dividend increase), targeted investments to concentrate the portfolio in sports and entertainment, improved reporting and governance, and encouraging operating performance at Black Knight Football Club (on-field results, transfer proceeds, stadium expansion, and full ownership of FC Lorient). Lowlights center on declining revenues (Q4 down ~6%, full year down ~6.4%), a larger operating loss (up ~$15 million year-over-year), noncash impairments and nonrecurring charges (including proxy-contest fees), and below-the-line goodwill/mark-to-market losses (e.g., Alight). Overall, management is taking active strategic steps to address underperformance and redeploy capital; the strength of recent monetizations, capital returns and portfolio refocus were emphasized as outweighing near-term operating setbacks.Positive Updates
Large Portfolio Monetization — Dun & Bradstreet Sale
Sold Dun & Bradstreet to Clearlake Capital for total proceeds of $630 million to Cannae, providing significant liquidity to redeploy into higher-conviction opportunities.
Negative Updates
Decline in Operating Revenues
Total operating revenues were $103 million in Q4 2025, down 6% from $110 million in Q4 2024. Full year operating revenue declined to $424 million in 2025 from $453 million in 2024, a decrease of approximately 6.4% year-over-year.
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Q4-2025 Updates
Positive
Negative
Large Portfolio Monetization — Dun & Bradstreet Sale
Sold Dun & Bradstreet to Clearlake Capital for total proceeds of $630 million to Cannae, providing significant liquidity to redeploy into higher-conviction opportunities.
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Company Guidance
Cannae’s guidance centers on a strategic pivot to sports and entertainment alongside enhanced transparency and disciplined capital returns: management highlighted portfolio actions (sale of Dun & Bradstreet for $630M; realized $55M tax refund expected summer 2026), continued capital returns ($323M of buybacks in 2025 equal to 17.4M shares or ~28% of shares outstanding; dividend increased 25% to $0.15/quarter and $30M paid in 2025) and new investments ($50M into Black Knight Football Club; $67.5M into JANA to raise ownership from 20% to 50%; acquisition of the remaining 60% of FC Lorient for ~€60M). Operational disclosures will broaden starting this quarter (including a Black Knight overview deck), and the Board will pursue monetizations of non-core assets (strategic alternatives announced for the Restaurant Group) while prioritizing capital flexibility—maintaining a consistent quarterly dividend subject to availability and opportunistic repurchases. Financials cited as context: Q4 revenue $103M (down 6% y/y from $110M) and expenses $127M (including $12M noncash impairments; operating expenses ex-impairment down ≈$17M or 13%), Q4 equity losses of unconsolidated holdings $69M, full-year revenue $424M vs $453M in 2024, operating loss $119M (includes $24M nonrecurring management charges, $14M restaurant impairments and $5M proxy-related fees; operating expenses ex-these fell ≈27%). Year-end balance sheet showed >$1.3B total assets, $330M liabilities, corporate cash >$147M, and only $48M of fixed-rate, interest-only corporate debt maturing in over four years.Cannae Holdings Financial Statement Overview
Summary
Income Statement
18
Very Negative
Balance Sheet
54
Neutral
Cash Flow
22
Negative
| Breakdown | Dec 2025 | Dec 2024 | Dec 2023 | Dec 2022 | Dec 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Income Statement | |||||
| Total Revenue | 423.60M | 452.50M | 570.00M | 662.10M | 742.20M |
| Gross Profit | 53.70M | 2.90M | 43.00M | 31.20M | 44.70M |
| EBITDA | -384.30M | -224.50M | -150.90M | -278.70M | -374.00M |
| Net Income | -513.20M | -304.60M | -313.40M | -428.10M | -287.00M |
Balance Sheet | |||||
| Total Assets | 1.32B | 2.23B | 2.69B | 3.13B | 3.89B |
| Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments | 182.00M | 137.70M | 121.80M | 282.60M | 85.80M |
| Total Debt | 331.80M | 330.50M | 274.20M | 300.00M | 235.80M |
| Total Liabilities | 329.80M | 413.60M | 377.50M | 410.60M | 548.50M |
| Stockholders Equity | 1.02B | 1.84B | 2.32B | 2.72B | 3.34B |
Cash Flow | |||||
| Free Cash Flow | -16.90M | -97.10M | -97.80M | -219.40M | -189.80M |
| Operating Cash Flow | -18.10M | -90.10M | -87.80M | -205.10M | -176.10M |
| Investing Cash Flow | 518.10M | 298.30M | 53.10M | 521.20M | -272.40M |
| Financing Cash Flow | -449.50M | -182.90M | -106.80M | -154.20M | -190.40M |
Cannae Holdings Technical Analysis
Neutral
13.08
Price Trends
12.17
Positive
13.88
Negative
16.17
Negative
Market Momentum
0.29
Negative
66.20
Neutral
83.83
Negative
Evaluating momentum and price trends is crucial in stock analysis to make informed investment decisions. For CNNE, the sentiment is Neutral. The current price of 13.08 is above the 20-day moving average (MA) of 11.87, above the 50-day MA of 12.17, and below the 200-day MA of 16.17, indicating a neutral trend. The MACD of 0.29 indicates Negative momentum. The RSI at 66.20 is Neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. The STOCH value of 83.83 is Negative, not indicating any strong overbought or oversold conditions. Overall, these indicators collectively point to a Neutral sentiment for CNNE.
Cannae Holdings Risk Analysis
Cannae Holdings disclosed 34 risk factors in its most recent earnings report. Cannae Holdings reported the most risks in the "Finance & Corporate" category.
Finance & Corporate - Financial and accounting risks. Risks related to the execution of corporate activity and strategy
Latest Risks Added 0 New Risks
Cannae Holdings Peers Comparison
UnderperformOutperform
Sector (61)
Name | Overall Rating | Market Cap | P/E Ratio | ROE | Dividend Yield | Revenue Growth | EPS Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
61 Neutral | $18.38B | 12.79 | -2.54% | 3.03% | 1.52% | -15.83% | |
60 Neutral | $1.88B | 7.29 | 32.50% | 3.27% | 4.66% | 42.60% | |
57 Neutral | $1.33B | 9.79 | 140.58% | 8.15% | -3.10% | -10.24% | |
52 Neutral | $988.47M | -27.52 | -6.72% | ― | 9.15% | -897.31% | |
48 Neutral | $1.19B | 42.31 | -6.99% | 4.72% | -0.27% | -64.64% | |
47 Neutral | $625.85M | -1.73 | -38.48% | 3.45% | -6.39% | -84.88% | |
45 Neutral | $700.03M | 131.25 | -0.90% | 3.54% | -4.13% | -111.07% |
* Consumer Cyclical Sector Average
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Cannae Holdings Corporate Events
Business Operations and StrategyPrivate Placements and Financing
Cannae Holdings Ends Margin Loan, Streamlines Capital Structure
Positive
Mar 9, 2026
Cannae Holdings, Inc., through its special purpose subsidiary Cannae Funding A, terminated a margin loan facility that had been secured by more than 40 million shares of Alight, Inc. stock and allowed revolving borrowings of up to $50 million. The...
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