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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD. $170 (Toronto symbol CP; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 151.2 million; Market cap: $25.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.9; Dividend yield: 1.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.cpr.ca) ships freight over a 22,000-kilometre rail network between Montreal and Vancouver....
The Alberta wildfires and low commodity prices have hurt freight volumes at CN and CP. However, both railways continue to do a good job controlling their costs. As well, each has an attractive p/e ratio—price to earnings per share.

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO....
CP Rail has moved down lately, as the railway shipped less grain, potash and crude oil. The Alberta wildfires further reduced oil shipments. However, recovering commodity prices should spur shipments—and profits—later this year.

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $164.05
(Toronto symbol CP; Shares outstanding: 153.0 million; Market cap: $25.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 1.2%; www.cpr.ca) ships freight over a 22,000-kilometre rail network between Montreal and Vancouver....
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BCE INC.,
$59.89, Toronto symbol BCE, is Canada’s largest provider of landline telephone service, with 6.6 million customers in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces....
BSM Technologies Inc. saw sales jump 99.3% in the latest quarter after its purchase of GPS software company Webtech.
A: BSM Technologies Inc., $1.13, symbol GPS on Toronto (Shares outstanding: Shares outstanding: 83.0 million; Market cap: $93.8 million, www.bsmwireless.com) makes equipment and software that helps owners of truck, train and other fleets monitor those vehicles using global positioning system (GPS) technology....

CP Rail passes the 3-part investment test



From the time the last spike was driven to complete the new railway in 1885, Canadian



Pacific has been an essential part of Canada’s history, transportation and business life....
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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $181.49 (Toronto symbol CP; Shares outstanding: 153.0 million; Market cap: $27.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.1%; www.cpr.ca) has abandoned its plan to merge with U.S.-based railway Norfolk Southern Corp. (New York symbol NSC). Norfolk rejected CP’s latest offer of about $30 billion U.S. in cash and shares. In addition, U.S. transportation regulators probably would have blocked any deal no matter how CP structured the transaction. The company will now use some of the cash it had set aside for the takeover to raise its quarterly dividend by 42.9%, starting with the July 2016 payment. The new annual rate of $2.00 a share yields 1.1%....