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The Successful Investor Hotline – Friday, April 29, 2022

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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD., $93.97, Toronto symbol CP, is your #1 Conservative Buy for 2022. CP ships freight over a 23,700-kilometre rail network, mainly between Montreal and Vancouver. It also links to hubs in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast. The company is now in the process of merging with U.S.-based railway Kansas City Southern. The cash-and-shares deal was worth $28 billion U.S. (as of December 14, 2021). CP investors now own 72% of the merged company, with KCS shareholders holding the remaining 28%. The company has deposited the KCS shares into an independent voting trust, which will continue to run that business while the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) studies the purchase. CP expects to receive final regulatory approval in the first quarter of 2023. Meantime, CP’s revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2022, fell 6.2%, to $1.84 billion from $1.96 billion a year earlier. That missed the $1.88 billion consensus forecast. The lower revenues are largely because harsh winter weather and a two-day…