
A steady large-cap income stock trading at a premium valuation.
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.
Endorses
· 0 frameworksNo framework reaches a strong endorsement at current metrics.
Rejects
· 3 frameworksPEG < 1 (growth at a discount) is 2.22× — fails "< 1.00×".
P/B < 1.0 (below book) is 2.26× — fails "< 1.00×".
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.
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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Sign in to run this simulationCP: 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.
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P/B 2.26× · FCF yield 2.5%
142% above fair value
Indicative only. Probabilities are model-implied weights for stress-testing — not forecasts.
A turnaround takes hold: margin recovers toward peer averages, revenue stabilises, and the market re-prices the asset value rather than the running earnings.
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.
Sector: Industrials. MENA-aware investors can sanity-check whether the US name is offering value relative to regional peers.
| Metric | CP | GCC median | MENA median | Global ex-US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (TTM) | — | 15.5× | 13.0× | 16.0× |
| P/B | 2.26× | 2.00× | 1.70× | 2.40× |
| Dividend yield | 0.82% | 3.00% | 2.60% | 2.20% |
| ROE | 8.4% |
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%.
A material miss is incompatible with a quality-compounder narrative until proven otherwise. Two more prints needed before that label is restored.
Multiple compression typically follows. The risk is not the miss itself, it's that consensus needs to re-rate forward estimates lower.
Even cheap stocks get cheaper after this kind of print — wait for capitulation rather than catching the falling knife.
Next earnings
Wed, Jul 29 · consensus EPS $1.24 · last actual $1.04
CPKC CEO Keith Creel statement on UP-NS merger application refiling
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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
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
FCF Yield > 7% is 2.5% — fails "> 7.0%".
Trades meaningfully above the fair-value range — limited margin of safety.
Returns and margins are healthy and consistent.
Leverage is high relative to coverage — balance-sheet risk on the table.
Price trend is unremarkable — neither tailwind nor headwind.
Behavioural read is mixed — some accumulation, some distribution.
Recent miss and / or risk patterns weigh on the catalyst path.
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.
ROE 8% · Op margin 38%
D/E 0.51 · CR 0.67
Quiet
2 tracked holders · peak 17.1%
0.82% yield + buyback runway
84% through 52w range
EPS -3% · Rev -3%
Cyclical earnings prove to be at peak; revenue stalls and the multiple, already low, drifts lower as estimates re-rate down.
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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%
Weights reflect each investor's latest 13F or factsheet snapshot. Data lags real time by 45+ days.