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TickerCNNE
SectorRestaurants
Mkt cap$802M
EV / EBITDAN/A
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite70/100
LensTarget-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 1704720

Cannae Holdings, Inc.

CNNEHIGH VELOCITYPRESSURE LEAN

Cannae Holdings, Inc. reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Consumer Products.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

$68M

+685%

vs $9M in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

1

−50%

1/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Selective Buyer

Acquisition use is visible but targeted.

Composite score

70

/100

High Velocity dominates · Pressure Lean

Financial snapshot
Revenue$424M
EBITDAN/A
Enterprise value$952M
EV / Revenue2.2×
EV / EBITDAN/A
P/EN/A
Cash$182M
Total debt$71M
as of 2026-05-10
§ I·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Behavioral posture, nine reads.

Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.

Active Acquirer

24/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $278M disclosed buyer spend

Buyer Cadence

17/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 41d
  • 107 8-Ks

Target Probability

20/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 24 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture

  • 24 activism filings

Pressure Watch

60/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 24 activism filings
  • Latest activism 1.5y ago
  • Shareholder pressure language

Distress Watch

44/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 10-Q 212d stale
  • 24 activism filings

Restatement Risk

13/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 1 auditor change
  • 1 NT late filing
  • Latest event 1y ago

Capital Velocity

Dominant
70/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 107 8-Ks
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $952M
  • 10-Q 212d ago
  • 4 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Capital cadence.

Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.

16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $202M · Peak count: 2

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
20251$68M$68MN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
2022N/AN/AN/AN/A
2021N/AN/AN/AN/A
20202$9M$4MN/A
§ III·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Strategy posture.

The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.

Archetype mix

  • Bolt On
    33%
  • Platform
    33%
  • Talent Acquisition
    33%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • bolt_on
  • platform
  • talent_acquisition
§ IV·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing language.

Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.

From time to time, we also seek to take meaningful equity ownership stakes where we have the ability to control or significantly influence quality companies, and we bring the strength of our operational expertise to each of our subsidiaries.

10-KFY2025

We primarily acquire interests in operating companies and are engaged in actively managing and operating a core group of those companies, which we are committed to supporting for the long term.

10-KFY2025
§ V·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Market context.

Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.

Primary market

Consumer Products

Market spend (2023–2025)
$145.2B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$102.1B
Recent vs prior
+42%
Issuer rank in market
N/A
Share of market capital
0.0%

Valuation positioning

N/AEV / EBITDA

CNNE trades at a -17.4-turn discount to the Consumer Products peer median of 12.2×.

EV / Revenue
2.2×
Net debt / EBITDA
N/A
Peer median EV / EBITDA
12.2×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
15.7×2.3×2.0×$164.7B$24.6B
8.7×1.3×-0.1×$10B$5.5B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Consumer Products. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Buyer landscape.

Public buyers whose stated archetypes, target categories, and recent cadence align with this issuer as a plausible acquisition target. Scores cross EDGAR signal and disclosure overlap.

Likely buyers

No public buyers surface as a strong target-side fit on current signal.

Likely sellers / divestiture partners

No reciprocal divestiture / strategic-alternatives matches identified.

§ VII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing activity & signal stream.

Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.

Filing cadence

  • 10-K (annual)132026-04-30
  • 10-Q (quarterly)262025-11-10
  • 8-K (event)1072026-03-09
  • Proxy / DEF 14A672025-12-10
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)242024-12-05

Signals on file

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2025-05-27

    1 Item 4.01 filing on file; certifying accountant change.

  • watch

    Late-filing notice

    2019-03-04

    1 NT 10-K/10-Q filing on file.

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2024-12-05

    24 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Shareholder pressure

§ VIII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Audited corpus.

No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.

This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.

Cannae Holdings, Inc.: Issuer Brief | SE-Cluster