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Cowen & Co. Keeps a Buy Rating on Kansas City Southern (KSU)

In a report released yesterday, Jason Seidl from Cowen & Co. maintained a Buy rating on Kansas City Southern (KSU), with a price target of $162.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $110.84.

According to TipRanks.com, Seidl is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 8.3% and a 58.9% success rate. Seidl covers the Services sector, focusing on stocks such as Covenant Transportation Group, Expeditors International, and Echo Global Logistics.

Currently, the analyst consensus on Kansas City Southern is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of $171.83, a 58.4% upside from current levels. In a report issued on March 16, UBS also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $147.00 price target.

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Kansas City Southern’s market cap is currently $10.51B and has a P/E ratio of 20.23. The company has a Price to Book ratio of 2.38.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 75 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of KSU in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in January 2020, Jose Guillermo Zozaya Delano, the President & Exec Rep of Sub of KSU sold 13,700 shares for a total of $2,250,088.

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Kansas City Southern is a transportation holding company. It focuses on the growing north or south freight corridor connecting key commercial and industrial markets in the central United States with major industrial cities in Mexico. The company also engages in the freight rail transportation business operating through a single coordinated rail network.