CN Reports Q4-2009 Net Income

January 26, 2010 Railfanning.org News Wire

MONTREAL — CN reported its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2009.

Fourth-quarter and full-year 2009 highlights:

— Net income and diluted earnings per share for the final quarter of 2009 increased two per cent from the year-earlier period to C$582 million and C$1.23, respectively. The results included an after-tax gain of C$59 million (C$0.12 per diluted share) from a line-sale to Metrolinx, a transit agency in Toronto, and a deferred income tax recovery of C$99 million (C$0.21 per diluted share).

— Excluding these items, adjusted fourth-quarter 2009 net income was C$424 million, or C$0.90 per diluted share, compared with adjusted net income of C$531 million, or C$1.12 per diluted share, excluding a deferred income tax recovery, for the year-earlier period.

— Fourth-quarter 2009 revenues declined 14 per cent from a year earlier to C$1,882 million.

— Fourth-quarter operating ratio was 65.3 per cent, compared with 62.7 per cent for the same quarter of 2008.

— Free cash flow for full-year 2009 was C$790 million, compared with 2008’s C$794 million.

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