Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (NYSE: CP): Retirees Don’t Worry About Volatility

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (NYSE:CP) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.45M but it saw 8290356 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 68.33B USD, the company’s current market price of $73.18 came rising about 8.98 while comparing to the previous closing price of $67.15. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $89.26 and as low as $66.49. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $66.73 while lowest mark touched by it was $73.49.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (CP) gives us an average price of $72.03, while its current price level is -18.01% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 10.06% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $75.16 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $78.23. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 6.83% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 3.58%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 51.49 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Wolfe Research upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “Peer Perform” on January 08, 2025 while assigning a price target of $86. Stephens issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $88.

Over the week, CP’s stock price is moving 0.99% up while it is 0.12% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 1.12% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -17.22%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jan-28, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.05 while estimate for next year EPS is 4.85. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $3.84B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $15.7B and seeing the company making $16.81B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $3.75B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited’s total number of outstanding shares is 933.50M with 0.03% of that held by the insiders while 75.00% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.73% and return on equity (ROE) at 8.36%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 25.26 while having a 18.79 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.03. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.05 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 6.44. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.42% on average.