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Canadian National Railway Company

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Canadian National Railway Company

CNI·NYSE·Energy & Transportation·CIK 0000016868

Canadian National Railway Company, along with its subsidiaries, operates in the rail, intermodal, trucking, and related transportation sectors across Canada and the United States. The company delivers a range of rail services, including equipment provision, customs brokerage, transloading and warehousing, business development, handling of dimensional loads, private railcar storage, less-than-truckload shipping, and services to Mexico. Its intermodal offerings encompass temperature-controlled multimodal transport, mobile transport trays, port partnerships, transloading and distribution, logistics parks, trucking, and supply chain services. Additionally, the company provides services for connecting to rail, short lines, and offers maps and network services. Canadian National Railway Company serves various industries, including automotive, coal, fertilizers, temperature-controlled cargo, forest products, dimensional goods, grain, metal and minerals, petroleum and chemicals, consumer goods, and third-party logistics applications. The company was incorporated in 1919 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE:CNI) is a publicly traded company in the Energy & Transportation sector. Wiseek has independently scored 14 items for CNI at importance 7 or higher on its 1–10 market-impact scale. Its most recent item scored 7 or higher is dated 2026-08-11, rated 7/10. Across its 14 most recent items scored 7 or higher, the top rating is 8/10, with 6 rated 8 or above. Recent SEC coverage for CNI spans 6-K, FWP.

Recent high-impact activity:

  • CN Moves Record 33.8M Tonnes of Grain in 2025-26 Crop Year
  • CN Raises 2026 Guidance on Strong Q2 Results, Repurchases C$454M in Shares
  • CN Raises 2026 Guidance After Q2 Revenue Jumps 11%, EPS Beats
  • CN and Union Pacific Forge a Deal to Expand CN's Midwest Footprint, Contingent on UP-NS Merger
  • CN and Union Pacific Strike Deal to Expand North American Rail Connectivity

Short Interest & Short Volume

3.25 days to cover

FINRA reported short interest of 5,402,423 shares in CNI as of the September 15, 2026 settlement, a 19.7% decrease from the prior period — about 3.3 days to cover at its recent average daily volume. On October 2, 2026, 74.9% of CNI volume reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities was marked short.

Short interest (bi-monthly positions)5,402,423 shares as of September 15, 2026
Change vs prior period▼ 19.7%
Days to cover3.25 at avg daily volume of 1,662,054
Daily short volume (FINRA facilities)74.9% of 278,373 shares on October 2, 2026
5-day average short volume69.4%

Daily short sale volume covers trades reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities and is not the same as short interest (bi-monthly reported positions). Source: FINRA — FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data; it may not be redistributed.

Dilution Risk

Low risk

Filing-implied dilution signals for CNI, detected from its recent SEC filings · based on capital-structure filings through 2026-05-07.

1 recent capital raise

Debt Offering Priced · Two Tranches Issued

⚠ A more recent filing has been published for this ticker since this signal was computed; it may not yet be reflected — see the filings below.

A filing-implied signal, not a realized share count. How Wiseek tracks dilution →

Insider Transactions

CNI files as a Foreign Private Issuer (FPI). Under SEC Exchange Act Section 16(a), officers, directors, and 10% owners of FPIs are exempt from Form 4 insider-transaction reporting requirements. Comparable disclosures, when applicable, appear in the company's Form 20-F (annual) or Form 6-K (interim) filings on SEC EDGAR.

$119.77
52-week range · as of 2026-07-24 $90.74 – $131.21
Market cap
$72.48B
Volume
885.4K (0.7× avg)
3-mo avg 1.3M
Live data · 2026-10-05 04:24 UTC · Market overnight

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feed CNI - Latest Insights

CNI
Aug 11, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
Source: GlobeNewswire
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $126.50
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: -$6.73 (-5%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Jul 24, 2026, 7:35 AM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $131.50
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: -$11.73 (-9%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Jul 24, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT
Source: GlobeNewswire
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $132.00
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: -$12.23 (-9%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Jul 22, 2026, 8:54 PM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $127.90
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: -$8.13 (-6%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Jul 22, 2026, 6:50 PM EDT
Source: GlobeNewswire
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $127.90
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: -$8.13 (-6%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Jul 03, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT
Source: GlobeNewswire
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $121.60
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: -$1.83 (-2%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Jun 04, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT
Source: GlobeNewswire
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $119.45
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: +$0.320 (+0.27%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
May 07, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
Source: GlobeNewswire
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $110.84
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: +$8.93 (+8%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
May 07, 2026, 5:06 PM EDT
Filing Type: FWP
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $110.84
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: +$8.93 (+8%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Apr 29, 2026, 7:36 AM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $115.00
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: +$4.77 (+4%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Apr 29, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT
Source: GlobeNewswire
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $114.02
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: +$5.75 (+5%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Mar 25, 2026, 4:32 PM EDT
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $101.89
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: +$17.88 (+18%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Jan 30, 2026, 7:44 AM EST
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $100.50
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: +$19.27 (+19%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
CNI
Jan 30, 2026, 7:36 AM EST
Filing Type: 6-K
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $100.50
Real-time Price: $119.77 info
Change: +$19.27 (+19%) info
Market Cap: $72.479B info
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