What is CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO (CNI)'s fair-value range?

EvidInvest does not publish a fair-value range for CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO (CNI). Financials are filed in CAD; our prices are in USD, so these methods need a conversion we do not yet publish. The filed statements, the filing citations and the growth history are all available at https://evidinvest.com/valuation/CNI. Not investment advice.

How is CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO (CNI)'s fair value calculated?

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO (CNI)'s fair value is computed with several independent methods — a discounted cash flow (DCF) model, the Graham number, earnings power value (EPV), and valuation multiples (PE, EV/EBITDA, P/S, P/B) benchmarked against its industry — using data from SEC filings.

What is CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO (CNI)'s PE ratio versus its industry?

EvidInvest shows CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO (CNI)'s current and historical PE ratio alongside its sector and industry averages, so you can see whether the stock trades at a premium or discount to peers. Full breakdown at https://evidinvest.com/valuation/CNI.

Fair value · CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO (CNI) · updated 2026-10-03 · from 40-F FY2025

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY trades at $119.77. We are not reading assumptions out of that price: financials are filed in CAD; our prices are in USD, so these methods need a conversion we do not yet publish.

Everything below is unaffected: the filed statements, the filing they came from, and CNI’s growth history are all as reported.

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CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO

Revenue: CAD 17.3B
Diluted EPS: CAD 7.56
Free cash flow: CAD 3.4B; operating cash flow − capital expenditure
Diluted shares: 623.7M; weighted average

40-F FY2025 · fiscal year ended 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-02-04

Trailing-twelve-month EPS also uses the quarterly 6-Ks through Q2 FY2026 (filed 2026-07-24).

Open the 40-F list on sec.govCIK 16868

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Fair Value Summary

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$119.77 +26.8% (1Y)

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Discounted cash flow

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Financials are filed in CAD; our prices are in USD, so these methods need a conversion we do not yet publish.

Preset inputs — revenue-driven DCF from the latest filing

Implied by today’s price

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Free cash flow grows at your stage-1 rate, then your stage-2 rate, then a terminal rate; everything is discounted at your WACC.

Stage-1 growth8.1%

Yearly free-cash-flow growth for the first stage. Starts below zero so a shrinking-cash-flow case — and the rate today’s price implies — can be set.

-20.0%60.0%

Stage-1 years5 yrs

How long stage-1 growth lasts.

1 yrs10 yrs

Stage-2 growth6.3%

Slower growth after stage 1, before the terminal phase.

-20.0%30.0%

Stage-2 years5 yrs

0 yrs10 yrs

Terminal growth2.5%

Growth forever after the two stages. Above ~3% is rarely justified.

0.0%5.0%

Discount rate (WACC)6.68%

The return you require. Default is the WACC EvidInvest computed for this company. Higher discount rate, lower value.

3.00%15.00%

Net debt ($M)Debt minus cash, from the balance sheet. Subtracted from enterprise value.

Starting FCF ($M)Latest free cash flow from the filing (operating cash flow minus capex).

Shares (M)Diluted shares, from the filing.

Year by year (two-stage model, $M)

PV explicit $35,534M · PV terminal $87,188M · EV $122,722M · equity $101,265M

Year	Stage	FCF	Present value
1	Stage 1	$3,662M	$3,433M
2	Stage 1	$3,959M	$3,479M
3	Stage 1	$4,280M	$3,525M
4	Stage 1	$4,626M	$3,572M
5	Stage 1	$5,001M	$3,620M
6	Stage 2	$5,316M	$3,607M
7	Stage 2	$5,651M	$3,594M
8	Stage 2	$6,007M	$3,581M
9	Stage 2	$6,386M	$3,568M
10	Stage 2	$6,788M	$3,556M

Inputs from the filing

Financials are filed in CAD; our prices are in USD, so these methods need a conversion we do not yet publish.

Free cash flow: CAD 3.5B; sum of the last four quarters
EBIT: CAD 7.2B; latest annual
Shares: 606.5M
Total debt: CAD 21.8B
Cash: CAD 362.7M
Net debt: CAD 21.5B; debt − cash

40-F FY2025 · period ended 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-02-04 · sec.gov

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Options positioning

Full options view: walls, IV term structure, smile →

0.30

Put/Call (OI)

call-heavy

1.84

Put/Call (volume)

25%

ATM IV ~30d

$125

Call wall

3k OI

$110

Put wall

0k OI

As of previous close (2026-10-02) · OPRA historical data · walls = largest open-interest strikes above/below spot · market-wide positioning

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY trades at $119.77. We are not reading assumptions out of that price: financials are filed in CAD; our prices are in USD, so these methods need a conversion we do not yet publish.

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