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Canadian National Railway (CNI) Competitors

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CNI vs. CSX, CP, GATX, NSC, UNP, ENB, MPLX, RYAAY, VIK, and BIP

Should you be buying Canadian National Railway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian National Railway include CSX (CSX), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), GATX (GATX), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Union Pacific (UNP), Enbridge (ENB), Mplx (MPLX), Ryanair (RYAAY), Viking (VIK), and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP).

Canadian National Railway vs. Its Competitors

Canadian National Railway (NYSE:CNI) and CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk and profitability.

CSX has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian National Railway. Canadian National Railway is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CSX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Canadian National Railway$12.44B4.78$3.25B$5.1318.52
CSX$14.16B4.75$3.47B$1.6222.11

Canadian National Railway pays an annual dividend of $2.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. CSX pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Canadian National Railway pays out 50.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CSX pays out 32.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Canadian National Railway has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and CSX has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years.

Canadian National Railway has a net margin of 26.63% compared to CSX's net margin of 21.92%. CSX's return on equity of 25.39% beat Canadian National Railway's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Canadian National Railway26.63% 21.71% 8.04%
CSX 21.92%25.39%7.40%

Canadian National Railway has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSX has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

80.7% of Canadian National Railway shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of CSX shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Canadian National Railway shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of CSX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Canadian National Railway presently has a consensus target price of $118.36, suggesting a potential upside of 24.56%. CSX has a consensus target price of $37.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.31%. Given Canadian National Railway's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Canadian National Railway is more favorable than CSX.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Canadian National Railway
2 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.45
CSX
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
15 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77

In the previous week, CSX had 10 more articles in the media than Canadian National Railway. MarketBeat recorded 75 mentions for CSX and 65 mentions for Canadian National Railway. CSX's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Canadian National Railway's score of 0.06 indicating that CSX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Canadian National Railway
13 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
12 Neutral mention(s)
9 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
CSX
30 Very Positive mention(s)
17 Positive mention(s)
16 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

CSX beats Canadian National Railway on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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CNI vs. The Competition

MetricCanadian National RailwayTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$59.54B$45.64B$7.42B$21.02B
Dividend Yield2.69%2.03%699.46%3.58%
P/E Ratio18.2812.6713.2127.75
Price / Sales4.785.07547.8760.10
Price / Cash12.9623.428.0423.00
Price / Book3.822.822.194.67
Net Income$3.25B$2.47B$571.39M$994.49M
7 Day Performance-4.50%1.89%1.35%1.25%
1 Month Performance-6.43%4.48%5.27%5.50%
1 Year Performance-16.22%1.20%-0.84%11.11%

Canadian National Railway Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CNI
Canadian National Railway
4.2305 of 5 stars
$94.93
-0.5%
$118.36
+24.7%
-17.6%$59.54B$12.44B18.2825,428Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
CSX
CSX
4.5713 of 5 stars
$33.98
-0.4%
$34.64
+1.9%
+5.4%$63.83B$14.54B20.3523,500Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
CP
Canadian Pacific Kansas City
4.2923 of 5 stars
$81.25
-0.6%
$91.95
+13.2%
-6.1%$74.86B$10.62B27.4519,797Upcoming Earnings
GATX
GATX
1.8567 of 5 stars
$159.04
+0.7%
$167.67
+5.4%
+13.0%$5.68B$1.63B20.162,150Upcoming Earnings
NSC
Norfolk Southern
4.1731 of 5 stars
$262.62
-1.5%
$273.80
+4.3%
+25.8%$59.21B$12.11B17.9419,600Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
UNP
Union Pacific
4.9404 of 5 stars
$233.33
-0.8%
$256.63
+10.0%
-7.0%$139.41B$24.25B21.0232,439Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
ENB
Enbridge
3.5625 of 5 stars
$45.21
+1.5%
$67.00
+48.2%
+24.4%$98.57B$60.94B23.3014,500Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
Options Volume
Analyst Revision
MPLX
Mplx
2.1603 of 5 stars
$50.95
+0.6%
$55.63
+9.2%
+20.4%$52.00B$11.19B11.775,560Positive News
RYAAY
Ryanair
4.8878 of 5 stars
$57.44
-0.1%
$108.50
+88.9%
-34.1%$30.48B$14.98B17.9725,952Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
VIK
Viking
3.4712 of 5 stars
$57.53
+1.9%
$51.00
-11.3%
+67.0%$25.49B$5.51B46.7712,000Analyst Forecast
BIP
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
4.8117 of 5 stars
$32.38
0.0%
$41.67
+28.7%
+4.0%$15.04B$21.04B-1,618.3961,000Upcoming Earnings

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