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Kansas City Southern Stock: price and insider trades · United States
No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest, by Maier Henry J, was filed 29 Oct 2018.
Kansas City Southern: what insiders have been doing
Kansas City Southern, classified in the Industrials sector, is a listed company based in Kansas City, United States, founded in 1962. Its insiders report their share dealings to SEC (Form 4). No insider at Kansas City Southern has published a filing in the past twelve months. The most recent one dates from 15 December 2021.
Over the whole record (from 2016), the tally stands at 3 purchases and 72 sales.
This summary is built from SEC (Form 4) disclosures alone and does not predict where the share price will go.
Insider Decl.
562
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
€447,331
3 ops. · all time
Sell Volume
€40M
72 ops. · all time
This score ranks the purchase within its own market. A position size is suggested only on the venues of the backtested strategy universe; elsewhere, signals stay on watch. Not investment advice.
Financial data
as of FY 2022FY ended December 2022 · cache
Income statement
RevenueUS$2.9B
Net incomeUS$845.7M29.1% margin
Last declaration on 15 December 2021
Declarations562 total
1,422.36 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012937:3
6,360 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012942:1
2,500 shares0Common StockSEC:0001062993-21-012940:1
4,390 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012937:2
2,028 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012944:1
32 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012933:1
51,954 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012933:2
10,956 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012932:2
53,296 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012940:3
1,078.25 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012940:4
3,610 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012938:1
55 shares0Common StockSEC:0001062993-21-012931:1
12,500 shares0Common StockSEC:0001062993-21-012931:2
23,000 shares0Common StockSEC:0001062993-21-012931:3
100 shares0Common StockSEC:0001062993-21-012931:4
83,823 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012931:6
261.23 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012931:7
23,599 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012929:2
21,393 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012941:1
8,210 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012927:1
17,159 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012945:1
28,792.36 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012930:2
8,066 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012943:1
1,154 shares@ US$290.717.7% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012937:1
1,970 shares@ US$290.7110.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001062993-21-012932:1
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About Kansas City Southern
Kansas City Southern (ticker KSU) was a major North American freight railroad company formerly listed in the United States on the NYSE. Founded in 1887, the company built its franchise around a strategically important rail network linking the U.S. Midwest and South with Mexico, making it a critical corridor for cross-border industrial, agricultural, and manufacturing flows. Its U.S. operating base was in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, which aligned with its role as a logistics bridge between domestic U.S. markets and Mexican trade lanes.
KSU’s business was centered on freight rail transportation and related rail logistics services. Its core revenue streams came from moving bulk commodities, agricultural products, chemicals, automotive traffic, industrial goods, and intermodal containers. As a rail infrastructure operator, the company was highly capital intensive, but it benefited from strong network effects, high barriers to entry, and a competitive moat on corridors where it offered a relatively efficient path between the U.S. and Mexico. This cross-border specialization made Kansas City Southern distinct from many U.S. rail peers: it was not just a domestic carrier, but a key transnational rail platform with a meaningful presence in Mexico through its historical subsidiary operations.
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From a competitive standpoint, KSU held a strategically attractive niche among North America’s Class I railroads. Its franchise value came less from sheer network size and more from the commercial quality of its links to industrial zones, ports, border terminals, and consumption centers. That positioning made the company a valuable consolidation asset in a sector where major mergers are uncommon and where network combination can unlock substantial operating synergies.
A defining corporate event was the merger with Canadian Pacific. The deal announced in 2021 was approved by regulators and completed in April 2023, creating Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), the first single-line rail network connecting Canada, the United States, and Mexico. For investors, that means Kansas City Southern is no longer an independent listed company under ticker KSU: the shares were folded into the combination and KSU ceased to trade separately. In the context of SEC Form 4 insider transactions, historical filings for KSU should therefore be viewed as legacy disclosures for a company that is now part of CPKC rather than an independently listed issuer.
