Canadian Pacific Railway through its subsidiaries is engaged in operating a transcontinental railway in Canada and the United States ("U.S."). Co. provides rail and intermodal transportation services over a network of approximately 13,000 miles, serving the principal business centres of Canada from Montréal, Québec, to Vancouver, British Columbia, and the U.S. Northeast and Midwest regions. Co.'s railway network feeds directly into the U.S. heartland from the East and West coasts. Agreements with other carriers extend Co.'s market reach in Canada, throughout the U.S. and into Mexico. Co. transports bulk commodities, merchandise freight and intermodal traffic. The CP stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the CP stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2015 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the CP annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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