CP vs. CNR, CNI, TRI, WCN, WSP, RBA, GFL, TFII, STN, and TIH Should you be buying Canadian Pacific Kansas City stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Pacific Kansas City include Canadian National Railway (CNR), Canadian National Railway (CNI), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Waste Connections (WCN), WSP Global (WSP), RB Global (RBA), GFL Environmental (GFL), TFI International (TFII), Stantec (STN), and Toromont Industries (TIH). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (TSE:CP ) and Canadian National Railway (TSE:CNR ) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Does the MarketBeat Community favor CP or CNR?
Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 140 more outperform votes than Canadian National Railway when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.30% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote while only 52.84% of users gave Canadian National Railway an outperform vote.
Is CP or CNR more profitable?
Canadian National Railway has a net margin of 32.86% compared to Canadian Pacific Kansas City's net margin of 28.26%. Canadian National Railway's return on equity of 27.06% beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity.
Do analysts recommend CP or CNR?
Canadian Pacific Kansas City currently has a consensus target price of C$120.63, suggesting a potential upside of 11.19%. Canadian National Railway has a consensus target price of C$184.50, suggesting a potential upside of 6.34%. Given Canadian Pacific Kansas City's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than Canadian National Railway.
Does the media refer more to CP or CNR?
In the previous week, Canadian Pacific Kansas City had 2 more articles in the media than Canadian National Railway. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City and 0 mentions for Canadian National Railway. Canadian National Railway's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's score of -0.12 indicating that Canadian National Railway is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Is CP or CNR a better dividend stock?
Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Canadian National Railway pays an annual dividend of C$3.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays out 18.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian National Railway pays out 41.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Which has more risk & volatility, CP or CNR?
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian National Railway has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in CP or CNR?
76.4% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.9% of Canadian National Railway shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Canadian National Railway shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Which has better valuation & earnings, CP or CNR?
Canadian National Railway has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Canadian National Railway is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Pacific Kansas City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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