Market Inference Overview -- CP Stock

By Susan Ramirez • Wednesday, September 10 10:10 • Permanent Link

Canadian Pacific Railway logged a 0.3% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $74.94 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. CP's trading volume is 183,196 compared to the stock's average volume of 2,936,498.

Canadian Pacific Railway trades -16.35% away from its average analyst target price of $89.59 per share. The 12 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $72.60542 to $96.829155, and on average have given Canadian Pacific Railway a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in CP, you'll want to know the following:

Canadian Pacific Railway's current price is 10.6% above its Graham number of $67.74, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Canadian Pacific Railway has moved -13.2% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 17.3%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 3.24, Canadian Pacific Railway has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 23.1 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
CP has a forward P/E ratio of 20.8 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $3.6 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 1.49 compared to its sector average of 2.89
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates a transcontinental freight railway in Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
Based in Calgary, the company has 19,943 full time employees and a market cap of $69.13 Billion. Canadian Pacific Railway currently returns an annual dividend yield of 1.1%.

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