In recent trading session, Canadian National Railway Co (NYSE:CNI) saw 0.8 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.96. Company’s recent per share price level of $99.23 trading at -$2.6 or -2.55% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $62.27B. That most recent trading price of CNI’s stock is at a discount of -24.33% from its 52-week high price of $123.37 and is indicating a premium of 7.64% from its 52-week low price of $91.65. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.18 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.35 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Canadian National Railway Co (CNI), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.06. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 17 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 9 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 8 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Canadian National Railway Co (NYSE:CNI) trade information
Canadian National Railway Co’s shares saw a change of -19.75% in year-to-date performance and have moved -5.67% in past 5-day. Canadian National Railway Co (NYSE:CNI) showed a performance of -2.77% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 5.47 million shares which calculate 4.14 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 113 to the stock, which implies a rise of 12.19% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 113 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 113. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -13.88% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -13.88% for stock’s current value.
Canadian National Railway Co (CNI) estimates and forecasts
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 3.01% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 9.20% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 10.29%.
CNI Dividends
Canadian National Railway Co is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-01 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 2.51%, the share has a forward dividend of 2.49 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 1.88%.
Canadian National Railway Co (NYSE:CNI)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 2.67% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 75.36 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 77.43%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 75.36% institutions for Canadian National Railway Co that are currently holding shares of the company. BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION TRUST is the top institutional holder at CNI for having 54.83 million shares of worth $6.48 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 8.6341 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is TCI FUND MANAGEMENT LTD, which was holding about 39.49 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.2186 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $4.67 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD SPECIALIZED FUNDS-Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund and VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 9.46 shares of worth $939.72 million or 1.51% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 7.9 shares on Apr 30, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $784.75 million in the company or a holder of 1.26% of company’s stock.
