Canadian National Railway Stock Fundamentals
| CNR Stock | CAD 144.04 1.50 1.03% |
Canadian National Railway fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Canadian National's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Canadian Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Canadian National's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Canadian National stock.
At this time, Canadian National's Income Before Tax is very stable compared to the past year. As of the 18th of February 2025, Net Income is likely to grow to about 6.8 B, while Selling General Administrative is likely to drop about 409.5 M. Canadian | Select Account or Indicator |
Canadian National Railway Company Operating Margin Analysis
Canadian National's Operating Margin shows how much operating income a company makes on each dollar of sales. It is one of the profitability indicators which helps analysts to understand whether the firm is successful or not making money from everyday operations.
Current Canadian National Operating Margin | 0.40 % |
Most of Canadian National's fundamental indicators, such as Operating Margin, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Canadian National Railway is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Canadian Operating Margin Driver Correlations
Understanding the fundamental principles of building solid financial models for Canadian National is extremely important. It helps to project a fair market value of Canadian Stock properly, considering its historical fundamentals such as Operating Margin. Since Canadian National's main accounts across its financial reports are all linked and dependent on each other, it is essential to analyze all possible correlations between related accounts. However, instead of reviewing all of Canadian National's historical financial statements, investors can examine the correlated drivers to determine its overall health. This can be effectively done using a conventional correlation matrix of Canadian National's interrelated accounts and indicators.
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A good Operating Margin is required for a company to be able to pay for its fixed costs or payout its debt, which implies that the higher the margin, the better. This ratio is most effective in evaluating the earning potential of a company over time when comparing it against a firm's competitors.
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Based on the recorded statements, Canadian National Railway has an Operating Margin of 0.3995%. This is 92.59% lower than that of the Ground Transportation sector and 97.98% lower than that of the Industrials industry. The operating margin for all Canada stocks is 107.25% lower than that of the firm.
Canadian National Railway Fundamental Drivers Relationships
Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Canadian National's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Canadian National value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Canadian National competition to find correlations between indicators driving Canadian National's intrinsic value. More Info.Canadian National Railway is number one stock in return on equity category among its peers. It also is number one stock in return on asset category among its peers reporting about 0.36 of Return On Asset per Return On Equity. The ratio of Return On Equity to Return On Asset for Canadian National Railway is roughly 2.80 . At this time, Canadian National's Return On Equity is very stable compared to the past year. Comparative valuation analysis is a catch-all model that can be used if you cannot value Canadian National by discounting back its dividends or cash flows. This model doesn't attempt to find an intrinsic value for Canadian National's Stock. Still, instead, it compares the stock's price multiples to a benchmark or nearest competition to determine if the stock is relatively undervalued or overvalued.Canadian Operating Margin Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Canadian National's direct or indirect competition against its Operating Margin to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Canadian National could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Canadian National by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.Canadian National is currently under evaluation in operating margin category among its peers.
Canadian National ESG Sustainability
Some studies have found that companies with high sustainability scores are getting higher valuations than competitors with lower social-engagement activities. While most ESG disclosures are voluntary and do not directly affect the long term financial condition, Canadian National's sustainability indicators can be used to identify proper investment strategies using environmental, social, and governance scores that are crucial to Canadian National's managers, analysts, and investors.Environment Score | Governance Score | Social Score |
Canadian Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | 0.22 | ||||
| Return On Asset | 0.0772 | ||||
| Profit Margin | 0.26 % | ||||
| Operating Margin | 0.40 % | ||||
| Current Valuation | 111.21 B | ||||
| Shares Outstanding | 627.32 M | ||||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 2.68 % | ||||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 75.00 % | ||||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 3.87 M | ||||
| Price To Earning | 28.95 X | ||||
| Price To Book | 4.29 X | ||||
| Price To Sales | 5.30 X | ||||
| Revenue | 16.83 B | ||||
| Gross Profit | 9.31 B | ||||
| EBITDA | 9.03 B | ||||
| Net Income | 5.62 B | ||||
| Cash And Equivalents | 328 M | ||||
| Cash Per Share | 0.40 X | ||||
| Total Debt | 18.89 B | ||||
| Debt To Equity | 0.73 % | ||||
| Current Ratio | 1.05 X | ||||
| Book Value Per Share | 33.53 X | ||||
| Cash Flow From Operations | 6.96 B | ||||
| Short Ratio | 4.18 X | ||||
| Earnings Per Share | 7.01 X | ||||
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 3.74 X | ||||
| Target Price | 167.71 | ||||
| Number Of Employees | 24.67 K | ||||
| Beta | 0.66 | ||||
| Market Capitalization | 90.36 B | ||||
| Total Asset | 52.67 B | ||||
| Retained Earnings | 18.66 B | ||||
| Working Capital | (1.95 B) | ||||
| Annual Yield | 0.02 % | ||||
| Five Year Return | 1.65 % | ||||
| Net Asset | 52.67 B | ||||
| Last Dividend Paid | 3.38 |
About Canadian National Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Canadian National Railway's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Canadian National using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Canadian National Railway based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
Please read more on our fundamental analysis page.| Last Reported | Projected for Next Year | ||
| Current Deferred Revenue | 11.7 M | 11.1 M | |
| Total Revenue | 19.4 B | 10.2 B | |
| Cost Of Revenue | 11.1 B | 11.7 B | |
| Sales General And Administrative To Revenue | (0.03) | (0.03) | |
| Capex To Revenue | 0.17 | 0.14 | |
| Revenue Per Share | 23.03 | 24.18 | |
| Ebit Per Revenue | 0.35 | 0.28 |
Pair Trading with Canadian National
One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Canadian National position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Canadian National will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.Moving together with Canadian Stock
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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Canadian National could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Canadian National when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Canadian National - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling Canadian National Railway to buy it.
The correlation of Canadian National is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Canadian National moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Canadian National Railway moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Canadian National can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Canadian National Railway. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in board of governors. You can also try the Analyst Advice module to analyst recommendations and target price estimates broken down by several categories.