During the recent session, Norfolk Southern Corp (NYSE:NSC)’s traded shares were 0.6 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.29. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $267.28, reflecting an intraday gain of 1.57% or $4.14. The 52-week high for the NSC share is $277.60, that puts it down -3.86 from that peak though still a striking 24.56% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $201.63. The company’s market capitalization is $60.26B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.3 million shares, and the average trade volume was 1.28 million shares over the past three months.
Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.17. NSC has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 24 analysts who have looked at this stock. 4 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 19 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 3.27.
Norfolk Southern Corp (NYSE:NSC) trade information
Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC) registered a 1.57% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 1.57% in intraday trading to $267.28, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 1.82%, and it has moved by 5.68% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 13.88%. The short interest in Norfolk Southern Corp (NYSE:NSC) is 3.13 million shares and it means that shorts have 2.33 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $260, which implies a decrease of -2.8% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $255 and $293 respectively. As a result, NSC is trading at a discount of -9.62% off the target high and 4.59% off the low.
Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 1.72% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 3.11B as predicted by 15 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 14 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 3.12B by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 3.04B and 3.05B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 2.18% and then jump by 2.36% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 2.46%. While earnings are projected to return 6.75% in 2025, the next five years will return 10.43% per annum.
NSC Dividends
Norfolk Southern Corp is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Apr-23. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Norfolk Southern Corp is 5.40, with the dividend yield indicating at 2.02 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 2.0%.
Norfolk Southern Corp (NYSE:NSC)’s Major holders
Norfolk Southern Corp insiders own 0.06% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 79.16%, with the float percentage being 79.22%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 2044.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 19.73 million shares (or 8.7319% of all shares), a total value of $4.24 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 14.35 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 6.3512% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $3.08 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Dodge & Cox Funds-Dodge & Cox Stock Fund . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 7.15 shares. This amounts to just over 3.17 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $1.91 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 6.97, or about 3.09% of the stock, which is worth about $1.86 billion.
