Topic: How To Invest

Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, April 30, 2021

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CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO., $132.33, Toronto symbol CNR, remains a buy. CN operates Canada’s largest railway. Its 32,200-kilometre network stretches across the country. It also travels down through the U.S. Midwest, connecting Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. With the March 2021 payment, the company increased your quarterly dividend by 7.0%. Investors receive $0.615 a share instead of $0.575. The new annual rate of $2.46 yields 1.9%. CN has now offered to acquire U.S.-based railway Kansas City Southern (New York symbol KSU). Its rail network of roughly 11,400 kilometres extends from the U.S. Midwest and Southeast into Mexico. CN will pay $200.00 U.S. in cash plus 1.059 of a CN common share for each KCS share. Based on current prices, that works out to $314.00 U.S. This new offer tops an earlier bid from CP Rail (Toronto symbol CP) that KCS has already accepted. However, there is more overlap between CN and KCS which will probably make it harder to win U.S. regulatory approval for…