Topic: How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of February 6, 2024

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We first recommended Canadian Pacific Railway (now called Canadian Pacific Kansas City) in the first issue of The Successful Investor in January 1995. The stock moved up for our subscribers in the late 1990s, though much more slowly than Internet and technology stocks. However, CP held up well in the market downturn of the early 2000s. CP took a big step forward in October 2001 when it eliminated its holding company structure and split into five new firms—CP Rail, CP Ships, Fording Coal, PanCanadian Energy, and Fairmont Hotels. CP Ships, Fording Coal and Fairmont Hotels were all taken over at substantial premiums. PanCanadian merged with Alberta Energy to form EnCana, which split into Encana (now called Ovintiv) and Cenovus in December 2009. Under the leadership of legendary railway executive Hunter Harrison, CP Rail adopted a new strategy called Precision Scheduled Railroading. That approach cut operating costs by minimizing the downtime for railcars, reducing the number of times cars are sorted at railyards, and blending…