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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
KSU Kansas City Southern	$293.59	$297.85	$190.64 ▼ $315.39	$26.71B	1.1	1.25 million shs	40.68 million shs
UNP Union Pacific	$236.29 +0.8%	$245.03	$190.37 ▼ $258.66	$144.16B	1.07	2.31 million shs	1.98 million shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
KSU Kansas City Southern	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
UNP Union Pacific	+1.03%	+0.23%	-4.28%	-3.61%	+17.92%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
KSU Kansas City Southern	0.4275 of 5 stars	0.0	0.0	0.8	2.0	0.0	1.7	1.9
UNP Union Pacific	4.6177 of 5 stars	2.4	5.0	2.5	2.7	3.1	2.5	1.9

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
KSU Kansas City Southern	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
UNP Union Pacific	2.72	Moderate Buy	$255.00	7.92% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest KSU and UNP Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/12/2024	UNP Union Pacific	Stifel Nicolaus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$231.00 ➝ $248.00
4/11/2024	UNP Union Pacific	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$248.00 ➝ $274.00
4/10/2024	UNP Union Pacific	Benchmark Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$260.00 ➝ $266.00
4/9/2024	UNP Union Pacific	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$237.00 ➝ $243.00
4/8/2024	UNP Union Pacific	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Hold	$250.00
3/28/2024	UNP Union Pacific	Susquehanna Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$245.00 ➝ $255.00
1/26/2024	UNP Union Pacific	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$235.00 ➝ $248.00
1/26/2024	UNP Union Pacific	Benchmark Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$260.00
1/26/2024	UNP Union Pacific	Royal Bank of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$282.00 ➝ $272.00
1/26/2024	UNP Union Pacific	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$239.00 ➝ $237.00

(Data available from 4/23/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
KSU Kansas City Southern	$2.63B	10.15	$10.98 per share	26.74	$48.19 per share	6.09
UNP Union Pacific	$24.12B	5.98	$14.52 per share	16.27	$24.26 per share	9.74

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
KSU Kansas City Southern	$617M	$1.02	287.84	30.17	N/A	3.33%	16.69%	7.02%	N/A
UNP Union Pacific	$6.38B	$10.46	22.59	19.27	2.51	26.45%	46.87%	9.60%	4/25/2024 (Confirmed)

Latest KSU and UNP Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue	Details
4/25/2024	N/A	UNP Union Pacific	$2.52	N/A	-$2.52	N/A	N/A	N/A
1/25/2024	Q4 2023	UNP Union Pacific	$2.56	$2.71	+$0.15	$2.71	$6.05 billion	$6.16 billion

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
KSU Kansas City Southern	$2.16	0.74%	N/A	211.77%	N/A
UNP Union Pacific	$5.20	2.20%	+10.25%	49.71%	N/A

Latest KSU and UNP Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
2/8/2024	UNP Union Pacific	quarterly	$1.30	2.09%	2/28/2024	2/29/2024	3/29/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
KSU Kansas City Southern	0.89	0.72	0.62
UNP Union Pacific	2.11	0.81	0.67

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
KSU Kansas City Southern	79.69%
UNP Union Pacific	80.38%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
KSU Kansas City Southern	0.83%
UNP Union Pacific	0.26%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
KSU Kansas City Southern	6,522	90.98 million	90.23 million	Optionable
UNP Union Pacific	32,973	610.10 million	608.51 million	Optionable

KSU and UNP Headlines

Source	Headline
	GAMMA Investing LLC Buys Shares of 3,847 Union Pacific Co. (NYSE:UNP) marketbeat.com - April 23 at 6:53 PM
	Union Pacific Co. (NYSE:UNP) Receives Average Recommendation of "Moderate Buy" from Analysts americanbankingnews.com - April 23 at 4:42 AM
	Union Pacific Co. (NYSE:UNP) Given Consensus Recommendation of "Moderate Buy" by Analysts marketbeat.com - April 23 at 4:42 AM
	Union Pacific Railroad train catches fire in Topeka msn.com - April 22 at 9:49 PM
	Guardian Award honors Union Pacific dispatchers trains.com - April 22 at 9:49 PM
	Wyoming Railroad Engineer Sues Union Pacific Over AI Train Driver cowboystatedaily.com - April 22 at 9:49 PM
	Union Pacific Co. (NYSE:UNP) Stock Position Decreased by New York State Common Retirement Fund marketbeat.com - April 22 at 9:46 PM
	What's in Store for These 5 Transportation Stocks in Q1 Earnings? zacks.com - April 22 at 3:21 PM
	Stay Ahead of the Game With Union Pacific (UNP) Q1 Earnings: Wall Street's Insights on Key Metrics zacks.com - April 22 at 10:22 AM
	Union Pacific Co. (NYSE:UNP) Shares Sold by North Star Asset Management Inc. marketbeat.com - April 21 at 9:54 PM
	Union Pacific Co. (NYSE:UNP) Stake Lessened by Signaturefd LLC marketbeat.com - April 20 at 3:40 PM
	Regulators end probe of Union Pacific’s use of embargoes, but slam railroad’s ‘delay and obfuscation’ trains.com - April 20 at 12:24 AM
	Union Pacific shipping limits criticized msn.com - April 20 at 12:24 AM
	Naples Money Management LLC Buys Shares of 12,112 Union Pacific Co. (NYSE:UNP) marketbeat.com - April 19 at 7:54 PM
	Obermeyer Wood Investment Counsel Lllp Trims Holdings in Union Pacific Co. (NYSE:UNP) marketbeat.com - April 18 at 5:58 PM
	Union Pacific (UNP) Expected to Beat Earnings Estimates: What to Know Ahead of Q1 Release zacks.com - April 18 at 11:07 AM
	Is a Beat in Store for Union Pacific (UNP) in Q1 Earnings? zacks.com - April 18 at 10:21 AM
	Union Pacific Corporation Announces First Quarter 2024 Earnings Release Date businesswire.com - April 18 at 8:00 AM
	Union Pacific (UNP) Scheduled to Post Quarterly Earnings on Thursday americanbankingnews.com - April 18 at 1:24 AM
	Union Pacific Co. (NYSE:UNP) Stock Holdings Lessened by Flossbach Von Storch AG marketbeat.com - April 17 at 10:21 PM
	Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) finance.yahoo.com - April 17 at 9:03 PM
	STG Logistics and Union Pacific Railroad Extend Long-Running Partnership to Deliver Consumer Goods finance.yahoo.com - April 17 at 3:11 PM
	Regulators pleased Union Pacific is using fewer temporary shipping limits marketbeat.com - April 17 at 2:21 PM
	Dreamstar Lines Links With Union Pacific ocbj.com - April 17 at 12:07 AM

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Media Sentiment Over Time

Company Descriptions

Kansas City Southern

NYSE:KSU

Kansas City Southern is a transportation holding company. It focuses on the growing north or south freight corridor connecting key commercial and industrial markets in the central United States with major industrial cities in Mexico. The firm also engages in the freight rail transportation business operating through a single coordinated rail network. The company was founded by Arthur E. Stilwell in 1887 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Union Pacific

NYSE:UNP

Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, operates in the railroad business in the United States. The company offers transportation services for grain and grain products, fertilizers, food and refrigerated products, and coal and renewables to grain processors, animal feeders, ethanol producers, renewable biofuel producers, and other agricultural users; and construction products, industrial chemicals, plastics, forest products, specialized products, metals and ores, petroleum, liquid petroleum gases, soda ash, and sand, as well as finished automobiles, automotive parts, and merchandise in intermodal containers. Union Pacific Corporation was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

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