Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (TSE:CP) Receives Consensus Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from Analysts

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (TSE:CP) (NYSE:CP) has been given a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” by the sixteen ratings firms that are presently covering the stock, MarketBeat.com reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, three have issued a hold recommendation, nine have issued a buy recommendation and three have issued a strong buy recommendation on the company. The average 1 year target price among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is C$123.86.

CP has been the topic of several recent research reports. Stephens raised shares of Canadian Pacific Kansas City from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Monday, January 6th. ATB Capital boosted their price target on shares of Canadian Pacific Kansas City from C$129.00 to C$130.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 30th. Loop Capital cut shares of Canadian Pacific Kansas City from a “strong-buy” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research note on Monday, February 3rd. Desjardins raised their target price on shares of Canadian Pacific Kansas City from C$133.00 to C$134.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 30th. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein dropped their price target on Canadian Pacific Kansas City from C$123.00 to C$122.00 in a research report on Friday, February 21st.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Stock Performance

Shares of TSE:CP opened at C$107.54 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 49.64, a current ratio of 0.53 and a quick ratio of 0.42. Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a 1 year low of C$101.76 and a 1 year high of C$122.83. The firm has a market capitalization of C$100.52 billion, a PE ratio of 28.39, a P/E/G ratio of 2.32 and a beta of 0.79. The business’s 50 day moving average price is C$110.38 and its 200-day moving average price is C$109.78.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, April 28th. Stockholders of record on Monday, April 28th will be paid a $0.19 dividend. This represents a $0.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.71%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 28th. Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 20.06%.

Insider Transactions at Canadian Pacific Kansas City

In other Canadian Pacific Kansas City news, Senior Officer Laird Joseph Pitz sold 18,710 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, January 31st. The stock was sold at an average price of C$116.16, for a total value of C$2,173,430.39. Also, Senior Officer Keith E. Creel sold 51,727 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of C$104.91, for a total value of C$5,426,615.01. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 86,094 shares of company stock worth $9,264,405. 0.03% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Company Profile

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates a transcontinental freight railway in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The company transports bulk commodities, including grain, coal, potash, fertilizers, and sulphur; merchandise freight, such as forest products, energy, chemicals and plastics, metals, minerals, consumer products, and automotive; and intermodal traffic comprising retail goods in overseas containers.