Canadian Pacific Kansas City Retirement and nonpension postretirement benefit obligations decreased by 1.8% to $537.00M in Q4 2025 compared to the prior quarter. Year-over-year, this metric declined by 2.0%, from $548.00M to $537.00M. Over 5 years (FY 2020 to FY 2025), Retirement and nonpension postretirement benefit obligations shows a downward trend with a -8.4% CAGR. This is a positive signal — lower values indicate better performance for this metric.
An increase suggests rising long-term benefit obligations or lower plan asset performance, while a decrease indicates reduced future liability or improved funding status.
This represents the long-term financial obligations a company expects to pay to retired employees for pension benefits a...
Standard across capital-intensive industries with legacy workforces; peers often disclose this as part of net periodic benefit cost.
non_current_liabilities_pension_and_other_postretirement_0d4947| Q2 '21 | Q3 '21 | Q4 '21 | Q1 '22 | Q2 '22 | Q3 '22 | Q4 '22 | Q1 '23 | Q2 '23 | Q3 '23 | Q4 '23 | Q1 '24 | Q2 '24 | Q3 '24 | Q4 '24 | Q1 '25 | Q2 '25 | Q3 '25 | Q4 '25 | |
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| Value | 823M | 825M | 718M | 715M | 724M | 726M | 538M | 537M | 562M | 568M | 581M | 583M | 582M | 580M | 548M | 547M | 545M | 547M | 537M |
| QoQ Change | — | +0.2% | -13.0% | -0.4% | +1.3% | +0.3% | -25.9% | -0.2% | +4.7% | +1.1% | +2.3% | +0.3% | -0.2% | -0.3% | -5.5% | -0.2% | -0.4% | +0.4% | -1.8% |
| YoY Change | — | — | — | — | -12.0% | -12.0% | -25.1% | -24.9% | -22.4% | -21.8% | +8.0% | +8.6% | +3.6% | +2.1% | -5.7% | -6.2% | -6.4% | -5.7% | -2.0% |