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Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited
IndustrialsRailroadsIncome
$86.09 · 15min delay
β 1.22

A steady large-cap income stock trading at a premium valuation.

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52-wk low $68.4252-wk high $89.42

Mkt Cap

$76.43B

P/E

—

PEG

2.22

P/B

2.26

Dividend

0.82%

ROE

8.4%

About the business

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates a transcontinental freight railway in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The transports bulk commodities, including grain, coal, potash, fertilizers, and sulphur; merchandise freight consists of industrial and consumer products, such as forest products, energy, chemicals and plastics, metals, minerals, consumer products, and automotive; and intermodal traffic comprising retail goods in overseas containers. The company also provides rail and intermodal transportation services through a network of approximately 20,000 miles serving business centers. The company was formerly known as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited and changed its name to Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited in April 2023. Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Who would buy CP?

Consensus 5/100 · Mixed · Investors are split.

0 5 10

Endorses

· 0 frameworks

No framework reaches a strong endorsement at current metrics.

Rejects

· 3 frameworks
  • Peter Lynch· Lynch GARP0/100

    PEG < 1 (growth at a discount) is 2.22× — fails "< 1.00×".

  • Walter Schloss· Schloss Deep Value0/100

    P/B < 1.0 (below book) is 2.26× — fails "< 1.00×".

Insider activity · Sparse

No recent insider transactions

Strength 10/100

No Form 4 filings in the last 6 months. Insider inactivity is itself weak evidence — it usually reflects blackout windows or compensation cycles rather than a view on the stock.

  • Sparse data — read with caution
No transactions match the selected filters.

Insider activity from Yahoo Finance (quoteSummary: insiderTransactions + netSharePurchaseActivity). Cached 6 hours. · Insiders hold 0.0% of shares outstanding.

Net 6M: +0 sh

Price history

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What this means: Price near 52-week highs despite weak framework scores — market enthusiasm is running ahead of the fundamentals most legends look at.

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Sector concentration

How much this shifts your top sector weight and overall diversification.

Archetype tilt

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CP is currently tagged:IncomeFails criteria (5/100)

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Probabilistic recommendation· rec-v1.0.0-2026-04

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited · CP

CP: 46% estimated probability of outperforming over the next 12M window. 1 of 6 signal families negative (medium confidence). Strongest support: Op margin 38%. Main risk to monitor: 142% above fair value.

Outperform prob.
46%
vs S&P 500 · 12M
medium confidence
Expected return
-6.4% → +17.6%
mid +5.6% / yr
Downside (p20)
-18.6%
stress -37.2%
Data quality
98/100
Excellent

Probabilistic research output, not financial advice. Prism recommendations are based on available data, historical relationships, and model assumptions. They do not guarantee future returns. Conduct independent due diligence before any investment decision.

Backtested and similar-setup statistics may be affected by survivorship bias, look-ahead bias, overfitting, transaction costs, liquidity constraints, and data limitations. Probability estimates are anchored heuristics — not validated forecasts — until the walk-forward backtest pipeline is in place.

Prism Score

Composite 50/100. Strongest contribution from quality; weakest from valuation. Risk patterns shaved 4 points off the composite.

Composite
50
/ 100
Mixed
Deep valueval.
69/ 100

P/B 2.26× · FCF yield 2.5%

Margin of safetyval.
0/ 100

142% above fair value

Bull · base · bear scenarios

Three plausible paths over a 5-year horizon.

Indicative only. Probabilities are model-implied weights for stress-testing — not forecasts.

Bull
~20%
$46.27
-11.7% / yr (5y)

A turnaround takes hold: margin recovers toward peer averages, revenue stabilises, and the market re-prices the asset value rather than the running earnings.

Drivers
  • • Margin expands by 200–400 bps from 38%
  • • Stranded asset value crystallises
  • • Multiple re-rates one full turn higher
Base
~45%
$35.59
-16.2% / yr (5y)

No deterioration, no surprise re-acceleration. 38% operating margin and -3% top-line growth chug along; the multiple slowly converges to the central fair-value estimate.

Global value comparison

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited vs sector medians — GCC, MENA, and Global ex-US.

Sector: Industrials. MENA-aware investors can sanity-check whether the US name is offering value relative to regional peers.

MetricCPGCC medianMENA medianGlobal ex-US
P/E (TTM)—15.5×13.0×16.0×
P/B2.26×2.00×1.70×2.40×
Dividend yield0.82%3.00%2.60%2.20%
ROE8.4%
Earnings reaction explainer

CP missed materially — -16.2% below consensus.

Big miss· -16.2%

Reported EPS $1.04 vs $1.24 expected — a material miss. The bar of the next two prints will be lower, but the multiple that was bid up to today's level usually does not survive an unexplained shortfall this size. Trailing operating margin: 37.6%.

  • Quality investorsNegative

    A material miss is incompatible with a quality-compounder narrative until proven otherwise. Two more prints needed before that label is restored.

  • Growth investorsNegative

    Multiple compression typically follows. The risk is not the miss itself, it's that consensus needs to re-rate forward estimates lower.

  • Value investorsNegative

    Even cheap stocks get cheaper after this kind of print — wait for capitulation rather than catching the falling knife.

News & events

Next earnings

Wed, Jul 29 · consensus EPS $1.24 · last actual $1.04

  • CPKC CEO Keith Creel statement on UP-NS merger application refiling

    CNW Group · just now

  • CPKC President and CEO Keith Creel to address 2026 Wolfe Research Global Transportation & Industrials Conference

    PR Newswire · just now

  • Assessing Canadian Pacific Kansas City (TSX:CP) Valuation After Recent 3% Daily Gain And Double Digit Annual Returns

    Simply Wall St. · just now

Key Metrics at a Glance

P/E Ratio (TTM)

N/A

PEG Ratio

2.22

P/B Ratio

2.26

EPS Growth

-3.1%

Revenue Growth

-2.5%

Debt / Equity

0.51

Net Cash / Share

$-26.93

Return on Equity

8.4%

Gross Margin

53.9%

Operating Margin

37.6%

FCF / Share

$2.14

Current Ratio

0.67

Seth Klarman· Klarman Margin of Safety0/100

FCF Yield > 7% is 2.5% — fails "> 7.0%".

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Prism Score
50/100
Low agreement
Signal families · 1 of 6 signal families negative
Agreement: Low
  • Valuationnegative

    Trades meaningfully above the fair-value range — limited margin of safety.

    142% above fair valueReverse DCF: priced for perfection
    10
    /100
  • Qualitypositive

    Returns and margins are healthy and consistent.

    Op margin 38%Gross 54%
    66
    /100
  • Balance sheetnegative

    Leverage is high relative to coverage — balance-sheet risk on the table.

    CR 0.67 (tight)
    40
    /100
  • Momentumneutral

    Price trend is unremarkable — neither tailwind nor headwind.

    84% through 52w range
    55
    /100
  • Behaviouralneutral

    Behavioural read is mixed — some accumulation, some distribution.

    2 tracked holders · peak 17.1%
    58
    /100
  • Catalysts & eventsnegative

    Recent miss and / or risk patterns weigh on the catalyst path.

    Big EPS miss (-16%)2 medium-severity flags
    24
    /100
Positive drivers
  • • Op margin 38%
  • • Gross 54%
Key risks
  • • 142% above fair value
  • • Reverse DCF: priced for perfection
  • • CR 0.67 (tight)
  • • Big EPS miss (-16%)
  • • 2 medium-severity flags
  • • Possible momentum-only setup
  • • Reported earnings are not turning into cash
Suggested diligence questions
  • 1. Next earnings reaction
  • 2. Cash conversion trend
Similar historical setups[MOCK DATA]

Among 96 historical setups with similar Prism Score and signal-agreement profiles, 48% beat the benchmark over the next 12 months, with average excess return of -0.7% / yr.

Probabilistic research output — not financial advice.
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Quality20%
73/ 100

ROE 8% · Op margin 38%

Balance sheet15%
66/ 100

D/E 0.51 · CR 0.67

Insider convictionown.
50/ 100

Quiet

Superinvestorown.
83/ 100

2 tracked holders · peak 17.1%

Shareholder yield10%
50/ 100

0.82% yield + buyback runway

Momentum5%
87/ 100

84% through 52w range

Growth5%
33/ 100

EPS -3% · Rev -3%

Risk deduction: 2 patterns flagged · possible momentum-only setup. 4 points removed from composite.

Designed to surface potentially attractive characteristics — descriptive, not prescriptive. For research and educational purposes only.

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Drivers
  • • Revenue growth holds near -3%
  • • Operating margin stays around 38%
  • • No major balance-sheet surprises
Bear
~35%
$26.69
-20.9% / yr (5y)

Cyclical earnings prove to be at peak; revenue stalls and the multiple, already low, drifts lower as estimates re-rate down.

Drivers
  • • Operating margin compresses 200–400 bps
  • • Multiple compresses as estimates roll back
  • • Sentiment de-rates the name to a deeper-value multiple
Indicative weights
11.0%
10.5%
12.0%

Editorial dataset · as of 2024-12-31. Sector medians are hand-maintained from public Tadawul / ADX / DFM / QSE / EGX disclosures and indicative Global ex-US references. Live licensed data is on the roadmap. For research and educational purposes only.

What to watch on the next print
  • • Management explanation of cause — one-off vs structural
  • • Analyst-revision direction over the next 1-2 weeks
  • CPKC EVP and CMO John Brooks to address the RBC Capital Markets Canadian Industrials Conference on May 19

    PR Newswire · just now

  • CPKC, CSX upgrade Southeast Mexico Express with dedicated train, faster transit times

    PR Newswire · just now

  • CSX, CPKC upgrade Southeast Mexico Express with dedicated train, faster transit times

    GlobeNewswire · just now

  • Institutional Own.

    74.9%

    Insider Own.

    0.0%

    Dividend Yield

    0.82%

    Book Value / Share

    $38.03

    Superinvestor ownership

    Held by 2 tracked superinvestors · peak weight 8.4%

    Grand Portfolio
    • Chris Hohn

      TCI Fund Management · Q4 2025

      8.4%
    • François Rochon

      Giverny Capital · Q4 2025

      5.4%

    Weights reflect each investor's latest 13F or factsheet snapshot. Data lags real time by 45+ days.