Two blue-chip stocks for your new buying

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Camadian Pacific Kansas City and IBM are leading competitors in their respective markets. We still see both stocks as buys. CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS CITY, $99.32, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CP; shares outstanding: 931.8 million; Market cap: $92.6 billion; Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 0.8%) ships freight over a 32,190-kilometre rail network. That line runs mainly between Montreal and Vancouver, with links to hubs in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast. With the addition of KCS, the new company also connects with important hubs and ports on the U.S. Gulf Coast and in Mexico. As a result of its $31 billion acquisition of U.S.-based railway Kansas City Southern, CPKC’s revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2023, rose 44.4%, to $3.34 billion from $2.31 billion a year earlier. On a comparable basis, revenue in the quarter declined 3.7%. That drop was mainly due to the disruptions caused by the B.C. port workers strike, and lower volumes of consumer goods and forest products. However, grain…