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Kansas City Southern: Earnings better than estimates

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Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU). Last Market Price: 58.43, Change: +1.10, % Change: (1.92%). Shares trade in the range of 57.70 – 61.08 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 6.42B dollars, making it a Mid Cap Stock and has 109.82M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 1.35, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 2.21; P/E of 26.47 indicating high expected future growth in earnings. It operates in Transportation sector and belongs to Railroads industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 85%. The company has a 52 week Price range (low – high) of $ 41.00 – 62.78. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 1,310,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 641,077, 0.49 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q3 (Sep)
    • EPS of $0.78 better than the estimates
    • Revenues rose 24.4% year on year to $545 million

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 13.40%, an Operating margin of 26.42%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 4.99%, Return on average equity of 11.23%. The organization has an employee strength of 6,100

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.


Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 549.58 million dollars, an estimate high of 562.00 million dollars and an estimate low of 531.40 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 513.69 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 535.01 million dollars, an estimate high of 545.60 million dollars and an estimate low of 509.50 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 509.15 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 0.78 dollars, an estimate high of 0.83 dollars and an estimate low of 0.74 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.67 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 0.72 dollars, an estimate high of 0.75 dollars and an estimate low of 0.68 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.67 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 524.70 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 534.90 million dollars, 10.2 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Mar-11 was estimated at 482.38 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 488.60 million dollars, 6.22 million dollars more than estimates.

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Post Written By: Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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