Company Valuation: Canadian National Railway Company

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: December 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Capitalization 1 109,745 108,728 107,541 91,888 83,554 92,326 - -
Change - -0.93% -1.09% -14.55% -9.07% 10.5% - -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 121,392 123,829 125,539 112,393 104,726 114,661 115,192 114,693
Change - 2.01% 1.38% -10.47% -6.82% 9.49% 0.46% -0.43%
P/E ratio 22.6x 21.6x 19.5x 20.8x 17.9x 19.2x 17.3x 16x
PBR 4.79x 5.05x 5.45x 4.35x 3.86x 4.33x 4.19x 3.77x
PEG - 2.71x 1.3x -1.2x 2.24x 4.97x 1.6x 1.9x
Capitalization / Revenue 7.58x 6.36x 6.39x 5.39x 4.83x 5.17x 4.95x 4.7x
EV / Revenue 8.39x 7.24x 7.46x 6.59x 6.05x 6.42x 6.17x 5.83x
EV / EBITDA 16.8x 14.4x 14.9x 13.7x 12.3x 13.1x 12.3x 11.5x
EV / EBIT 21.6x 18x 19x 17.8x 15.8x 16.9x 15.8x 14.6x
EV / FCF 29.8x 31.6x 33.2x 35.7x 30.9x 28.1x 26x 27.3x
FCF Yield 3.36% 3.16% 3.01% 2.8% 3.24% 3.56% 3.85% 3.67%
Dividend per Share 2 2.46 2.93 3.16 3.38 3.55 3.658 3.704 3.909
Rate of return 1.58% 1.82% 1.9% 2.32% 2.62% 2.42% 2.45% 2.59%
EPS 2 6.89 7.44 8.53 7.01 7.57 7.863 8.726 9.46
Distribution rate 35.7% 39.4% 37% 48.2% 46.9% 46.5% 42.4% 41.3%
Net sales 1 14,477 17,107 16,828 17,046 17,304 17,859 18,668 19,660
EBITDA 1 7,220 8,591 8,414 8,217 8,525 8,769 9,332 9,958
EBIT 1 5,622 6,862 6,597 6,325 6,636 6,798 7,295 7,835
Net income 1 4,892 5,118 5,625 4,448 4,720 4,730 5,098 5,513
Net Debt 1 11,647 15,101 17,998 20,505 21,172 22,335 22,866 22,367
Reference price 2 155.38 160.84 166.55 145.97 135.75 151.16 151.16 151.16
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 706,300 676,000 645,695 629,500 615,500 610,781 - -
Announcement Date 25/01/22 24/01/23 23/01/24 30/01/25 30/01/26 - - -
1CAD in Million2CAD
Estimates

P/E ratio, Detailed evolution

P/E (Y) EV / Sales (Y) EV / EBITDA (Y) Dividend Yield (Y) Capi.($)
19.23x6.42x13.08x2.42% 67.53B
22.46x7.72x14.78x0.85% 73.28B
55.86x3.42x20.77x-.--% 26.42B
30.12x1.34x21.29x1.38% 21.48B
39.01x1.58x9.87x1.2% 10.47B
8.88x2.33x32.01x5.87% 10.43B
157.1x - - - 9.67B
16.81x1.2x5.3x1.56% 8.9B
15.15x3.63x6.47x2.25% 6.16B
36.8x0.91x7.97x1.36% 5.15B
Average 40.14x 3.17x 14.62x 1.88% 23.95B
Weighted average by Cap. 31.40x 5.21x 15.39x 1.58%

Y-o-Y evolution of P/E

Historical PBR trend

Evolution Enterprise Value / Sales

Change in Enterprise Value/EBITDA

Year-on-year evolution of the Yield

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