Western Railroad Discussion > KCS Speculation V 2.0

Within the last couple of weeks, there was a thread on this Board regarding a rumor about a BNSF, UP and KCS combination of some type.  There was a lot of speculation about the rumor on both sides of the aisle. 

I noticed yesterday that a couple of large brokerage firms have raised their "target" price for KCS to $174 per share, a $28 per share price increase over the stock closing price on July 8, 2020. 

With the recent management changes at KCS and KCSM, plus the target price increase, plus the BNSF/UP/KCS rumors, one has to wonder what really is going on.  

Food for thought.

VBR Out.

KCS stock price is artificially inflated by people who think that KCS is going to be bought anytime soon. They're fiercely independent. If they weren't, they would have merged with somebody already.

Every few years something is made about "Who is gonna buy KCS!" Nothing ever happens because of it.

Still fun to speculate about though.

Shortline614 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> KCS stock price is artificially inflated by people
> who think that KCS is going to be bought anytime
> soon. 

Yep.  I agree.  

If KCS did get bought by BNSF, then I'd bet you would start seeing "brokerage firms" telling people to start buying Canadian Pacific stock, since then they would become the smallest Class I.

It's just the nature of being the smallest of the large companies. People are going to speculate about you being bought.

Posted from Android

          Quickest way to get your stock price up before bailing out and making a huge profit is to start a nonsence rumor. See who owns the biggest amouts of shares and watch those personnel for the next year.

I heard, and don't pass it on, that Ed Ellis is buying it with the proceeds from the SL&RG auction.

Out 

callum_out Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> I heard, and don't pass it on, that Ed Ellis is
> buying it with the proceeds from the SL&RG
> auction.
>
> Out 

There really should be a Post of the Day award.

callum_out Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> I heard, and don't pass it on, that Ed Ellis is
> buying it with the proceeds from the SL&RG
> auction.
>
> Out 

Way to go. Still chucklin on this one.  Kudo's are granted. Ben

Hedge Fund mangers with "hard ons".

SantaFeRuss