Key Focus for CSX Investors

By Susan Ramirez • Monday, November 13 15:42 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about CSX over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Railroads stock at a price of $30.43? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

CSX has moved -4.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 12.0%
CSX has an average analyst rating of buy and is -16.34% away from its mean target price of $36.38 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.89
CSX has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 16.1 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.99 and its forward P/E ratio is 15.3
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 5.03 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
CSX is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.49 and an average P/B of 3.78
CSX has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -19.2% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $2.43 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based freight transportation services. The company offers rail services; and transportation of intermodal containers and trailers, as well as other transportation services, such as rail-to-truck transfers and bulk commodity operations. It transports chemicals, agricultural and food products, minerals, automotive, forest products, fertilizers, and metals and equipment; and coal, coke, and iron ore to electricity-generating power plants, steel manufacturers, and industrial plants, as well as exports coal to deep-water port facilities. The company also offers intermodal transportation services through a network of approximately 30 terminals transporting manufactured consumer goods in containers; and drayage services, including the pickup and delivery of intermodal shipments. It serves the automotive industry with distribution centers and storage locations, as well as connects non-rail served customers through transferring products, such as plastics and ethanol from rail to trucks. The company operates approximately 20,000 route mile rail network, which serves various population centers in 26 states east of the Mississippi River, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as owns and leases approximately 3,600 locomotives. It also serves production and distribution facilities through track connections. CSX Corporation was incorporated in 1978 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

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