Assess Canadian Pacific Railway's Fundamentals Before Investing

By Tamara Parker • Thursday, November 30 17:06 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Canadian Pacific Railway, a Railroads company whose shares moved 1.0% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Canadian Pacific Railway has moved -13.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 13.0%
CP has an average analyst rating of buy and is -18.2% away from its mean target price of $88.02 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $3.29
Canadian Pacific Railway has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 21.9 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $3.3 and its forward P/E ratio is 21.8
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.62 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Canadian Pacific Railway is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.49 and an average P/B of 3.78
CP has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -12.6% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.39 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates a transcontinental freight railway in Canada and the United States. The company transports bulk commodities, including grain, coal, potash, fertilizers, and sulphur; and merchandise freight, such as energy, chemicals and plastics, metals, minerals and consumer, automotive, and forest products. It transports intermodal traffic comprising retail goods in overseas containers. The company offers rail and intermodal transportation services through a network of approximately 13,000 miles serving business centers in Quebec and British Columbia, Canada; and the United States Northeast and Midwest regions. Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

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