Pershing should spur on CP

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Activist investment firm Pershing Square Capital Management is now the largest single investor in CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $61.46 (Toronto symbol CP; Shares outstanding: 170.5 million; Market cap: $10.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 2.0%; www.cpr.ca), with a 12.2% stake. Pershing has a long history of making undervalued companies more profitable. It often does this by encouraging management to sell real estate or underperforming divisions. For example, in 2006 Pershing helped pressure Wendy’s International Inc. to sell shares in its Tim Hortons coffee-and-donut chain and use the proceeds to buy back stock. CP aims to become more efficient by investing in better trains and other equipment. Pershing’s involvement is an added plus. CP Rail is still a buy. buy…