Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
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. The company transports agriculture, forest, and consumer products comprising soybeans, wheat, corn, fertilizers, livestock and poultry feed, food products, food oils, flour, sweeteners, ethanol, lumber and wood products, pulp board and paper products, wood fibers, wood pulp, beverages, and canned goods; chemicals, including sulfur and related chemicals, petroleum products comprising crude oil, chlorine and bleaching compounds, plastics, rubber, industrial chemicals, chemical wastes, sand, and natural gas liquids; metals and construction materials, such as steel, aluminum products, machinery, scrap metals, cement, aggregates, minerals, clay, transportation equipment, and military-related products; and automotive, including finished motor vehicles and automotive parts, as well as coal. It also transports overseas freight through various Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports; and operates an intermodal network. Norfolk Southern Corporation was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sector: Industrials · Industry: Railroads · United States · 19,300 employees · norfolksouthern.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) had a market capitalization of $74.00B, a trailing P/E of 28.1 (forward 23.0), a dividend yield of 1.65% and a beta of 1.27; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $268.23 – $358.60 (19.5% over the year).
- Market cap
- $74.00B
- Enterprise value
- $89.71B
- Trailing P/E
- 28.1
- Forward P/E
- 23.0
- PEG ratio
- 3.87
- Price / book
- 4.55
- EPS (trailing)
- $11.73
- EPS (forward)
- $14.32
- Dividend yield
- 1.65%
- Payout ratio
- 46.1%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-08-07
- 52-week range
- $268.23 – $358.60
- 52-week change
- 19.5%
- Beta
- 1.27
- Average volume
- 1.1M
- Shares outstanding
- 224.6M
- Short % of float
- 3.25%
- Profit margin
- 21.0%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) last closed at $323.30 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 35 (neutral territory), price -4.7% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread +1.1%, MACD histogram -3.03.
Sentiment inputs: 50% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; analyst consensus score 57/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 41 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 1 buy and 0 sells of NSC; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 0 sells (1 filer, latest disclosure 2026-07-21). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Alan Armstrong (1B/0S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
NSC has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell NSC.
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