CNR vs. CP, TRI, WCN, WSP, RBA, GFL, TFII, STN, TIH, and EFN
Should you be buying Canadian National Railway stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Canadian National Railway include Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Waste Connections (WCN), WSP Global (WSP), RB Global (RBA), GFL Environmental (GFL), TFI International (TFII), 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 stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Canadian National Railway has a net margin of 33.43% compared to Canadian National Railway's net margin of 31.28%. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's return on equity of 27.11% beat Canadian National Railway's return on equity.
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.
76.7% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.8% of Canadian National Railway shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Canadian Pacific Kansas City shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Canadian National Railway shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canadian National Railway has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City currently has a consensus target price of C$120.63, indicating a potential upside of 12.01%. Canadian National Railway has a consensus target price of C$184.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.26%. Given Canadian National Railway's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Canadian Pacific Kansas City is more favorable than Canadian National Railway.
In the previous week, Canadian Pacific Kansas City had 6 more articles in the media than Canadian National Railway. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Canadian Pacific Kansas City and 33 mentions for Canadian National Railway. Canadian Pacific Kansas City's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Canadian National Railway's score of -0.55 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, 60.30% 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 Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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