Canadian National Railway Stock Cash Flow From Operations
| CNR Stock | CAD 152.52 3.09 2.07% |
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.
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Canadian National Railway Company Cash Flow From Operations Analysis
Canadian National's Operating Cash Flow reveals the quality of a company's reported earnings and is calculated by deducting company's income taxes from earnings before interest, taxes, and depreciation (EBITDA). In other words, Operating Cash Flow refers to the amount of cash a firm generates from the sales or products or from rendering services. Operating Cash Flow typically excludes costs associated with long-term investments or investment in marketable securities and is usually used by investors or analysts to check on the quality of a company's earnings.
Current Canadian National Cash Flow From Operations | 6.96 B |
Most of Canadian National's fundamental indicators, such as Cash Flow From Operations, 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 Cash Flow From Operations 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 Cash Flow From Operations. 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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Operating Cash Flow shows the difference between reported income and actual cash flows of the company. If a firm does not have enough cash or cash equivalents to cover its current liabilities, then both investors and management should be concerned about the company having enough liquid resources to meet current and long term debt obligations.
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Canadian National Railway has 6.96 B in Cash Flow From Operations. This is much higher than that of the Ground Transportation sector and significantly higher than that of the Industrials industry. The cash flow from operations for all Canada stocks is significantly lower than that of the firm.
Canadian Cash Flow From Operations 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 Cash Flow From Operations 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 cash flow from operations 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 | 0.28 | ||||
| Return On Asset | 0.0818 | ||||
| Profit Margin | 0.32 % | ||||
| Operating Margin | 0.40 % | ||||
| Current Valuation | 114.62 B | ||||
| Shares Outstanding | 628.8 M | ||||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 2.64 % | ||||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 74.83 % | ||||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 4.35 M | ||||
| Price To Earning | 28.95 X | ||||
| Price To Book | 4.83 X | ||||
| Price To Sales | 5.59 X | ||||
| Revenue | 16.83 B | ||||
| Gross Profit | 9.62 B | ||||
| EBITDA | 8.88 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 | 30.95 X | ||||
| Cash Flow From Operations | 6.96 B | ||||
| Short Ratio | 4.52 X | ||||
| Earnings Per Share | 8.44 X | ||||
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 3.30 X | ||||
| Target Price | 173.0 | ||||
| Number Of Employees | 25.43 K | ||||
| Beta | 0.65 | ||||
| Market Capitalization | 95.9 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 | 3.33 |
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.
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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 against 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 Commodity Directory module to find actively traded commodities issued by global exchanges.