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Following the appointment of railroading legend Hunter Harrison as CEO in 2012, Canadian Pacific embarked on a profitability turnaround that proved successful. Initially upon taking the helm, Harrison closed numerous intermodal terminals and hump yards to rightsize the network. He also sold nonessential rail lines, turned over leadership, and rightsized the workforce and overall asset base.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City is a Class-1 railroad operating on track that spans across most of Canada and into parts of the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. Following the April 2023 Kansas City Southern merger, CP operates new single-line-haul services from Canada and the Upper Midwest down through Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, and into Mexico. It also hauls cross border and intra Mexico freight via operating concessions on 3,300 miles of rail in Mexico. CP hauls shipments of grain, intermodal containers, energy products (like crude and frac sand), chemicals, plastics, coal, fertilizer and potash, automotive products, and a diverse mix of other merchandise.
Morningstar analysts hand-select direct competitors or comparable companies to provide context on the strength and durability of CP’s competitive advantage.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd
XTSE: CP
| CSX Corp
XNAS: CSX
| Union Pacific Corp
XNYS: UNP
| Canadian National Railway Co
XTSE: CNR
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Price
| 100.70 | 30.62 | 204.84 | 149.48 |
Currency
| CAD | USD | USD | CAD |
Change
| −$2.75 (2.66%) | −$0.53 (1.70%) | −$3.64 (1.75%) | −$0.62 (0.41%) |
Market Cap
| 93.80 Bil | 61.43 Bil | 124.84 Bil | 98.00 Bil |
Industry
| Railroads | Railroads | Railroads | Railroads |
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Yes. CP has a forward dividend yield of 0.75%.
See
CP’s full dividends and stock split history
on the Dividend tab.
Dividend yield allows investors, particularly those interested in dividend-paying stocks,
to compare the relationship between a stock’s price and how it rewards stockholders through dividends.
The formula for calculating dividend yield is to divide the annual dividend paid per share by the stock price.
Learn more about dividend yield.
CP’s market cap is 93.80 Bil.
Market capitalization is calculated by taking a company’s share price and multiplying it by the total number of shares.
It’s often used to measure a company’s size. In the Morningstar Style Box, large-cap names account for the
largest 70% of U.S. stocks, mid-cap names account for the largest 70–90%, and small-cap names are the remaining 10% of companies.
Learn more about market capitalization.
CP’s stock style is Large Growth.
Style is an investment factor that has a meaningful impact on investment risk and returns.
Style is calculated by combining value and growth scores, which are first individually calculated.
High-growth stocks tend to represent the technology, healthcare, and communications sectors. They rarely distribute dividends to shareholders, opting for reinvestment in their businesses. More value-oriented stocks tend to represent financial services, utilities, and energy stocks. These are established companies that reliably pay dividends.
Learn more about style.
CP’s price/sales is 9.20.
Price/sales represents the amount an investor is willing to pay for a dollar generated from
a particular company’s sales or revenues.
CP’s price/forward earnings is 21.89.
Forward P/E gives some indication of how cheap or expensive a stock is compared with consensus earnings estimates.
The lower the Forward P/E, the cheaper the stock.
CP’s price/book is 2.34.
Price/book ratio can tell investors approximately how much they’re paying for a company’s assets,
based on historical, rather than current, valuations. Historical valuations generally do not reflect
a company’s current market value. Value investors frequently look for companies that have low price/book ratios.
See CP’s valuation ratios compared to the Market Index.
CP’s beta can be found in Trading Information at the top of this page.
A stock’s beta measures how closely tied its price movements have been to the performance of the overall market.
Compare CP’s historical performance against its industry peers and the overall market.
