CP Rail sets a record

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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $313.97 (Toronto symbol CP; shares outstanding: 147.7 million; Market cap: $43.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.1%; www.cpr.ca) transports freight over a 23,700-kilometre rail network between Montreal and Vancouver, and to hubs in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast. The company shipped a record 26.8 million tonnes of Canadian grain and related products in the crop year ended July 31, 2019. That’s up 2.8% from the previous year. To help handle those rising volumes, CP is buying 5,900 new “hopper” railcars over the next four years for shipping grain. Those cars carry up to 15% more than the older models. The company now has over 1,500 hopper cars in service, and expects to have 1,900 by the end of 2019. In addition, CP continues to build new facilities to speed up the company’s loading and unloading of grain. For all of 2019, CP will probably earn $16.56 a share. The stock trades at a reasonable 19.0 times that forecast. The shares yield 1.1%. CP…