CP stands by its bid

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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $468.87, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol CP; shares o/s: 135.6 million; Market cap: $61.6 billion; Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 0.8%) recently offered to acquire U.S.-based railway Kansas City Southern (New York symbol KSU) for roughly $29 billion U.S. Its rail network of roughly 11,400 kilometres extends from the U.S. Midwest and Southeast into Mexico. Now, rival CN Railway has made a higher bid for Kansas City Southern, However, there is more overlap between CN and KCS which will probably make it harder to win U.S. regulatory approval for this deal. Therefore, CP feels it has a better chance of securing regulatory approval. As a result it has no plans to raise its offer. As well, if KCS accepts the CN offer, it will have to pay CP a termination fee of $700.0 million U.S. CP Rail is still a buy. buy…