Desjardins Brokers Decrease Earnings Estimates for TSE:CP

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (TSE:CP - Free Report) NYSE: CP - Stock analysts at Desjardins dropped their Q2 2025 earnings estimates for Canadian Pacific Kansas City in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, April 30th. Desjardins analyst B. Poirier now expects that the company will post earnings of $1.14 per share for the quarter, down from their prior forecast of $1.22. Desjardins has a "Buy" rating and a $124.00 price objective on the stock. The consensus estimate for Canadian Pacific Kansas City's current full-year earnings is $4.34 per share. Desjardins also issued estimates for Canadian Pacific Kansas City's Q3 2025 earnings at $1.19 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $1.38 EPS, FY2025 earnings at $4.78 EPS, FY2026 earnings at $5.58 EPS and FY2027 earnings at $6.37 EPS.

Several other research analysts have also recently weighed in on the stock. Scotiabank decreased their price objective on shares of Canadian Pacific Kansas City from C$118.00 to C$117.00 and set a "sector perform" rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, May 1st. National Bankshares cut their price objective on Canadian Pacific Kansas City from C$123.00 to C$118.00 and set a "sector perform" rating for the company in a report on Thursday, April 3rd. Raymond James dropped their target price on Canadian Pacific Kansas City from C$130.00 to C$115.00 and set an "outperform" rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, April 22nd. Loop Capital lowered shares of Canadian Pacific Kansas City from a "strong-buy" rating to a "strong sell" rating in a report on Monday, February 3rd. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein reduced their target price on shares of Canadian Pacific Kansas City from C$123.00 to C$122.00 in a report on Friday, February 21st. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, four have given a hold rating, eight have issued a buy rating and three have assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Canadian Pacific Kansas City currently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of C$119.62.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Stock Performance

Shares of Canadian Pacific Kansas City stock traded down C$0.97 during trading hours on Friday, reaching C$101.19. The company had a trading volume of 1,309,497 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,671,694. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of C$103.54 and a 200 day simple moving average of C$106.67. Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a one year low of C$94.60 and a one year high of C$119.20. The firm has a market cap of C$94.58 billion, a PE ratio of 26.71, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.32 and a beta of 0.79. 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 Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, July 28th. Shareholders of record on Friday, June 27th will be issued a dividend of $0.228 per share. This is a boost from Canadian Pacific Kansas City's previous quarterly dividend of $0.19. This represents a $0.91 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.90%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 20.06%.

About Canadian Pacific Kansas City

Canadian Pacific is a CAD 8 billion Class-1 railroads operating on more than 12,500 miles of track across most of Canada and into parts of the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. It is the second-smallest Class I railroad by revenue and route miles. In 2021, CP hauled shipments of grain (22% of freight revenue), intermodal containers (22%), energy products (like crude and frac sand), chemicals, and plastics (20%) coal (8%), fertilizer and potash (10%), automotive products (5%), and a diverse mix of other merchandise.