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Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (NYSE: CP) closed the day trading at $72.75 down -1.85% from the previous closing price of $74.12. In other words, the price has decreased by -$1.85 from its previous closing price. On the day, 2.65 million shares were traded. CP stock price reached its highest trading level at $74.5 during the session, while it also had its lowest trading level at $72.71.
Ratios:
For a better understanding of CP, let’s look at its different ratios. It provided that stocks Price–to–Cash (P/C) ratio for the trailing twelve months (TTM) is standing at 132.20 whereas its Price-to-Free Cash Flow (P/FCF) for the term is 39.48. For the most recent quarter (mrq), Quick Ratio is recorded 0.52 and its Current Ratio is at 0.60. In the meantime, Its Debt-to-Equity ratio is 0.48 whereas as Long-Term Debt/Eq ratio is at 0.42.
On January 08, 2025, Wolfe Research Upgraded its rating to Outperform which previously was Peer Perform but kept the price unchanged to $86.
Stephens Upgraded its Equal-Weight to Overweight on January 06, 2025, while the target price for the stock was maintained at $88.
Valuation Measures:
Investors should consider key stock statistics when deciding whether to invest or divest. In the wake of the recent closing price, CP now has a Market Capitalization of 68309266432 and an Enterprise Value of 91175657472. As of this moment, Canadian’s Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio for their current fiscal year is 25.11, and their Forward P/E ratio for the next fiscal year is 18.59. The expected Price-to-Earnings-to-Growth (PEG) calculation for the next 5 years is 1.64. For the stock, the TTM Price-to-Sale (P/S) ratio is 6.40 while its Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio in mrq is 2.04. Its current Enterprise Value per Revenue stands at 6.268 whereas that against EBITDA is 12.087.
Stock Price History:
The Beta on a monthly basis for CP is 0.99, which has changed by -0.18878233 over the last 52 weeks, in comparison to a change of 0.07903516 over the same period for the S&P500. Over the past 52 weeks, CP has reached a high of $91.58, while it has fallen to a 52-week low of $70.89. The 50-Day Moving Average of the stock is -5.13%, while the 200-Day Moving Average is calculated to be -7.65%.
Shares Statistics:
Over the past 3-months, CP traded about 2.86M shares per day on average, while over the past 10 days, CP traded about 2994250 shares per day. A total of 933.50M shares are outstanding, with a floating share count of 933.29M. Insiders hold about 0.05% of the company’s shares, while institutions hold 72.31% stake in the company. Shares short for CP as of 1740700800 were 9554263 with a Short Ratio of 4.03, compared to 1738281600 on 9918243. Therefore, it implies a Short% of Shares Outstanding of 9554263 and a Short% of Float of 1.0199999.
Dividends & Splits
CP’s forward annual dividend rate is 0.55, up from 0.76 a year ago. Against a Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of 0.010253643The stock’s 5-year Average Dividend Yield is 0.78. The current Payout Ratio is 19.10% for CP, which recently paid a dividend on 2024-09-27 with an ex-dividend date of 1743120000. Stock splits for the company last occurred on 2021-05-14 when the company split stock in a 5:1 ratio.
