Updating Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., Pengrowth Energy Corp. and ShawCor Ltd.

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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD. $250 (Toronto symbol CP; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 143.1 million; Market cap: $35.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 5.5; Dividend yield: 1.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.cpr.ca) should benefit from new federal regulations meant to encourage rail operators to refurbish Canada’s fleet of grain railcars (called “hoppers”). While the government will continue to own those existing cars, under the new rules, an operator will receive full credit for any investments it makes to maintain, improve or replace cars. Currently, a railway must share credits for any work it does with its competitors. With the new rules in place, over the next few years CP will refresh the hopper fleet it uses to ship grain. Those improvements will help the company avoid some of the problems it has had maintaining its grain delivery schedule. CP Rail is a buy. PENGROWTH ENERGY CORP. $0.91 (Toronto symbol PGF; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares o/s: 556.1 million; Market cap: $506.1 million; P/S…