Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC)
Norfolk Southern Corporation, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the United States.
Scored against other Industrials stocks, not a fixed scale.
The quick read
Norfolk Southern is right in the middle: the good and the not-so-good roughly cancel out.
- What's working
- It keeps a bigger share of each dollar it brings in than most other industrial companies.
- Worth watching
- Its balance sheet is more stretched than most other industrial companies.
Analyst price target
~12-month · 18 analystsPublished targets from Wall Street analysts (public data) — what analysts expect over roughly a year. This is not a StockGlow forecast and not a recommendation. Analyst targets are frequently wrong.
About Norfolk Southern Corporation
Norfolk Southern Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the United States…
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Railroads
- Employees
- 19,300
- Headquarters
- Atlanta, GA
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What’s behind the score
Valuation
P/E 27.9 — lower than 44% of Industrials peers
P/B 4.5 — lower than 56% of Industrials peers
P/S 5.9 — lower than 12% of Industrials peers
EV/EBITDA 15.8 — lower than 42% of Industrials peers
EV/Revenue 7.1 — lower than 8% of Industrials peers
PEG 3.9 — lower than 12% of Industrials peers
FCF yield 1.9% — higher than 12% of Industrials peers
Profitability & quality
Gross margin 45.2% — higher than 85% of Industrials peers
Operating margin 35.3% — higher than 92% of Industrials peers
Net margin 21.0% — higher than 88% of Industrials peers
ROE 17.0% — higher than 28% of Industrials peers
ROA 6.0% — higher than 46% of Industrials peers
Free cash flow is 52% of reported net income
Financial health
Debt/equity 1.1 — lower than 52% of Industrials peers
Current ratio 0.83 — higher than 23% of Industrials peers
Quick ratio 0.67 — higher than 35% of Industrials peers
Cash/debt 0.06 — higher than 12% of Industrials peers
Debt/EBITDA 3.03 — lower than 28% of Industrials peers
Growth
Revenue growth 11.4% YoY — higher than 62% of Industrials peers
Earnings growth -4.4% YoY — higher than 28% of Industrials peers
Ownership & investor activity
Payout ratio 46.1% — somewhat unusual vs Industrials peers
Institutions net sold, -16.7% of shares held
Insiders hold 0.0% of shares outstanding
3.2% of float sold short
Momentum
Mixed vs its moving averages
61% of the way from its 52-week low to high