Updates on Canadian Pacific Railway, Encana Corp., and Enbridge Inc.

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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $190.72 (Toronto symbol CP; Shares o/s: 175.1 million; Market cap: $32.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 0.7%; www.cpr.ca) expects to ship 140,000 to 210,000 carloads of crude oil a year by the end of 2015, up from 90,000 in 2013. Higher crude shipments and improving efficiency should increase CP’s 2014 earnings by 30% over 2013, to $8.35 a share. The stock trades at 22.8 times that forecast. However, that p/e ratio is reasonable in light of CP’s surging earnings. CP Rail is a buy. ENCANA CORP. $25.72 (Toronto symbol ECA; Shares outstanding: 741.0 million; Market cap: $19.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 1.2%; www.encana.com) has agreed to buy shale oil properties in the Eagle Ford area of southern Texas for $3.1 billion (all amounts except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars). A separate deal to sell gas fields in eastern Texas for $530 million will help pay for this purchase. Including Eagle Ford, Encana now has six…