Topic: Dividend Stocks

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD. $231 – Toronto symbol CP

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD. $231(Toronto symbol CP; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 171.5 million; Market cap: $39.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 6.4; Dividend yield: 0.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.cpr.ca) prefers to use its excess cash to buy back shares instead of raising its dividend. That’s because many of its investors live in the U.S. and are subject to withholding taxes on dividends from Canadian firms.

The company could repurchase up to 5.3 million shares under its latest authorization. It has now reached this limit, so it has increased its target to 12.65 million shares, or 7% of the total outstanding. It expects to complete these purchases by March 16, 2015.

CP Rail is a buy.

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