Quick Overview of Norfolk Southern

By Kim Brooks • Monday, January 30 12:01 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Norfolk Southern over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Railroads stock at a price of $240.25? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Norfolk Southern has moved -12.2% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -9.9%
NSC has an average analyst rating of hold and is -4.36% away from its mean target price of $251.21 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $13.88
Norfolk Southern has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 17.3 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $14.92 and its forward P/E ratio is 16.1
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 4.3 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Norfolk Southern is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 21.46 and an average P/B of 3.7
NSC has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 9.6% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $1,683,124,992.00, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Norfolk Southern Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the United States.

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