Canadian National Railway Company operates in the Railroads, line-haul operating sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Canadian National Railway Company with three other railroad operators in North America: Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (2020 sales of 7.71 billion Canadian Dollars [US$6.09 billion] of which 98% was Freight Revenues), CSX Corporation of UNITED STATES ($10.58 billion of which 22% was Chemicals), and Norfolk Southern Corporation which is also based in UNITED STATES ($9.79 billion of which 62% was Merchandise).

Sales Analysis. During the second quarter of 2021, sales at Canadian National Railway Company totalled C$3.60 billion. This is an increase of 12.1% from the C$3.21 billion in sales at the company during the second quarter of 2020. During the first two quarters of 2021, sales totalled C$7.13 billion, which is 5.6% higher than through the first two quarters of 2020. Canadian National Railway Company reported sales of C$13.82 billion (US$10.92 billion) for the year ending December of 2020. This represents a decrease of 7.4% versus 2019, when the company's sales were C$14.92 billion. The sales level in 2020 was fairly close to the level five years ago: in 2015, Canadian National Railway Company had sales of C$12.61 billion. Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 31.1% decline in Automative, from C$858.00 million to C$591.00 million. There were also decreases in sales in Intermodal (down 1.0% to C$3.75 billion) and Petroleum and Chemicals (down 13.8% to C$2.63 billion) and Forest Products (down 6.0% to C$1.70 billion) and Metals and Minerals (down 14.2% to C$1.41 billion) and Coal (down 19.9% to C$527.00 million) and Other Revenue (down 16.4% to C$601.00 million) . However, these declines were partially offset by the increase in sales of Grain and Fertilizers (up 9.1% to C$2.61 billion) .