$34.57

-1.60 (-4.42%)

10/6/2008 4:02 PM

Kansas City Southern (KSU)

CAPS Rating:

A holding company with domestic & international rail operations in North America that are focused on the growing north/south freight corridor connecting key commercial & industrial markets in the central U.S. with major industrial cities in Mexico.

Rating a stock in CAPS consists of three components:

Your call - Will this stock outperform or underperform the S&P 500? Successful picks are measured in terms of whether or not you were correct and by how many percentage points.

Your time frame - A guideline for other members to see whether your thinking is short or long-term. Time frame is also used to calculate the stock rating, but is not used in the scoring of your pick.

Your pitch - Here's your chance to offer more detailed thoughts, analysis, concerns, or the rationale behind your call. The pitch is optional and may be added later.

Each time you rate a stock, CAPS updates the community intelligence for the company, which may or may not change its CAPS rating. For more information, visit the Help tab at the top of the page.

You aren't currently rating KSU

Add Stock to Watchlist

What the Community Thinks

Total Members

291 Outperforms

11 Underperforms

All-Stars

46 Outperforms

5 Underperforms

Wall Street

5 Outperforms

0 Underperforms

Members bullish on KSU are also bullish on:

Members bearish on KSU are also bearish on:

Ticker Tags

Small Cap (1922), Railroads (21)
Suggest a tag

Kansas City Southern At A Glance

Current Price:	$34.57
Last Trade Time:	10/6/2008 4:02 PM
Open:	$35.07
Previous Close:	$36.17
Daily Range:	$31.46 - $35.07
52-Week Range:	$29.00 - $55.90
Volume:	1,773,821
Market Cap:	$4.67B
P/E Ratio:	22.44
Compare Our Special Broker Offers!

Stock Trends

KSU VS S&P 500 (SPY)

News & Discussion Boards

Other News Headlines for KSU

Final Glance: Railroads companies
10/6/2008 6:35:00 PM - AP
Midday Glance: Railroads companies
10/6/2008 2:34:00 PM - AP
Early Glance: Railroads companies
10/6/2008 10:48:00 AM - AP
Final Glance: Railroads companies
10/3/2008 5:49:00 PM - AP

More Headlines...

Top Bull Pitch

Recs

3 Kansas City Southern (KSU)

Avatar stanton17 (87.93) Submitted: 8/31/08 10:14 PM

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sees freight railroad use jumping 88% over the next 25 years.

"All the evidence is there that the train is returning to a degree once never expected [and that] an economic and cultural tsunami is about to transform the United States," says Harvard professor John Stilgoe...More

Replies: 0 | Reply | Permalink

Top Bear Pitch

Recs

3 Kansas City Southern (KSU)

Avatar NicieNicie (71.53) Submitted: 6/21/07 12:03 AM

"If I had some eggs, I could have ham-and-eggs, if I had some ham." KSU is by far the smallest of America's seven Class One railroads--and far different from its mega competitors. Connections from Mexico thru Texas and on to the American South are too dependent on the good graces of Union Pacific,...More

Replies: 0 | Reply | Permalink

CAPS Members

Show Me:

Sort by:

picks per page. CHANGE

Results 1 - 5 of 63 : 1 2 3 4 5 Next » Jump to page:

Recs 0 (KSU) Foliobuilder (36.46) Submitted: 10/06/08 9:11 AM : Start Price: $35.07 KSU Score: -0.84 The transports are due for the same bear market bottoming process that the S&P 500 and almost all other sectors have gone through. They started deteriorating this past week, but have much further to fall. KSU's book value is good and PEG ratio low, but with $1.89 billion in debt on their books and very little cash ($0.32 per share), KSU doesn't have much of a cushion while credit is so tight. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (KSU) T3485 (56.81) Submitted: 9/13/08 1:35 PM : Start Price: $45.74 KSU Score: -10.38 Mid-Cap Railroad - A smaller railroad poised for growth that I had held in the past and should have held onto. The rising price of gas has helped this stock, as well as the developoing Mexican economy. Good management and profitability numbers. Not a big fan of the 29M cash vs. 1.89B debt, but dealing with it. Got in at $34.89 in mid-March 2008. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (KSU) socalsy (87.32) Submitted: 9/10/08 1:50 AM : Start Price: $45.28 KSU Score: 8.19 Market cap is $4.2B, and long term debt is $1.2B -- I don't like the ratio. Current assets are $.712B and current liabilities are $1.065B -- I really don't like that ratio. I'm too lazy to research this, but I suspect that as oil spiked, railroad stocks spiked too. With oil coming down, some of the air is going out of the balloon. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (KSU) JeremyBear (< 20) Submitted: 9/02/08 5:32 PM : Start Price: $51.04 KSU Score: -14.14 "Shares have recently reversed the short-term downtrend that had been in play since the beginning of August, bouncing from a key level at $49. This stock also appears to have responded to support from a longer term trend line that began in early July. Shares are currently trading just above $52, once again approaching the 52-week and all-time high at $55.90." Zacks.com Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 3 (KSU) stanton17 (87.93) Submitted: 8/31/08 10:14 PM : Start Price: $52.54 KSU Score: -14.68 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sees freight railroad use jumping 88% over the next 25 years. "All the evidence is there that the train is returning to a degree once never expected [and that] an economic and cultural tsunami is about to transform the United States," says Harvard professor John Stilgoe, author of the recently published book Train Time. "Change is everywhere along the railroads....Track is being expanded, modernized and relaid, and once-abandoned rail right-of-ways are being reclaimed. And what you are seeing now is only the beginning. The best is yet to come." Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out.
Results 1 - 5 of 63 : 1 2 3 4 5 Next » Jump to page:

Wall Street

Results 1 - 5 of 5

picks per page. CHANGE Expand All Pitches Collapse All Pitches

Top Pick	Member Name	Member Rating	Start Date	Call	Time Frame	Start Price	Stock Gain	S&P Gain	Score	Pitch
	TrackJohnKeeley	82.01	09/30/07		NS	$32.17	+7.46%	-31.37%	+38.83
	TrackSoros	< 20	09/30/07		NS	$32.17	+7.46%	-31.37%	+38.83
	TrackJimCramer	82.79	04/25/07		3W	$38.26	-9.64%	-29.94%	+20.30
	TrackMatrix	93.23	10/25/06		NS	$29.50	+17.19%	-24.00%	+41.18

Results 1 - 5 of 5

Beat this Stock

Clicking "Beat this Stock!" will bring you to a company with a higher rating than the one you're currently viewing.

Even though CAPS shows only one- to five-star rankings, behind the scenes, all companies in CAPS have a distinct numerical ranking. In other words, there is a No. 1 stock in CAPS and a worst-ranked stock in CAPS. When you arrive at the top-ranked stock, clicking "Beat this Stock!" will cause the page to refresh.

That is, until there is a new No. 1 stock!

These companies do not represent formal Motley Fool recommendations. Please do your own due diligence before investing. Fool on.

KSU Score Leader

muirmm
Rating: 99.76
KSU Score: 54.85

Nice regular revenue growth. Earnings growing with a few falls and jumps, but the general trend is up. The rail connection to Mexico's fast growth gives KSU a strong trump card going forward. Should quietly outperform the S&P for years.