Updating Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., Imperial Oil Ltd., and Molson Coors Canada Inc.

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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD. $226 (Toronto symbol CP; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 145.0 million; Market cap: $32.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 5.1; Dividend yield: 1.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.cpr. ca) ships freight over a 22,000-kilometre rail network between Montreal and Vancouver, with links to hubs in the U.S. The company has agreed to repurchase up to 755,000 of its shares from two separate private sellers at a discount to the market price. The move is part of CP’s plan to buy back up to 4.4 million of its common shares, or 5% of the total outstanding, by May 14, 2018. CP Rail is a buy. IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $40 (Toronto symbol IMO; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Shares outstanding: 837.6 million; Market cap: $33.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.3; Dividend yield: 1.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.imperialoil. ca) is Canada’s second-largest publicly traded oil company, after Suncor. ExxonMobil (New York symbol XOM) owns 69.6% of Imperial. Over the next two…