CP vs. CNR, TRI, WCN, WSP, RBA, TFII, GFL, STN, TIH, and EFN
Should you be buying Canadian Pacific Kansas City stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian Pacific Kansas City include Canadian National Railway (CNR), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Waste Connections (WCN), WSP Global (WSP), RB Global (RBA), TFI International (TFII), GFL Environmental (GFL), Stantec (STN), Toromont Industries (TIH), and Element Fleet Management (EFN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (TSE:CP) and Canadian National Railway (TSE:CNR) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Canadian National Railway has a net margin of 33.43% compared to Canadian Pacific Kansas City's net margin of 31.28%. Canadian National Railway's return on equity of 27.11% beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity.
76.7% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.8% of Canadian National Railway shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Canadian National Railway shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian National Railway has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City presently has a consensus price target of C$120.88, indicating a potential upside of 7.70%. Canadian National Railway has a consensus price target of C$184.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.59%. Given Canadian National Railway's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Canadian National Railway is more favorable than Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
Canadian National Railway has higher revenue and earnings than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Canadian National Railway is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Canadian Pacific Kansas City, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays an annual dividend of C$0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Canadian National Railway pays an annual dividend of C$3.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City pays out 18.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Canadian National Railway pays out 39.6% 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.
In the previous week, Canadian National Railway had 3 more articles in the media than Canadian Pacific Kansas City. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Canadian National Railway and 17 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Canadian National Railway's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Canadian Pacific Kansas City's score of 0.19 indicating that Canadian National Railway is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City received 140 more outperform votes than Canadian National Railway when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.40% of users gave Canadian Pacific Kansas City an outperform vote while only 52.84% of users gave Canadian National Railway an outperform vote.
Summary
Canadian National Railway beats Canadian Pacific Kansas City on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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