NYSE:NSC - Norfolk Southern Stock Price, Forecast & News

Norfolk Southern trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NSC."

Norfolk Southern announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, January 28th. Investors of record on Friday, February 7th will be given a dividend of $0.94 per share on Tuesday, March 10th. This represents a $3.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.81%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 6th. View Norfolk Southern's Dividend History.

Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE:NSC) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January, 29th. The railroad operator reported $2.55 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $2.28 by $0.27. The railroad operator earned $2.69 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.70 billion. Norfolk Southern had a net margin of 24.10% and a return on equity of 18.04%. Norfolk Southern's quarterly revenue was down 7.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $2.57 earnings per share. View Norfolk Southern's Earnings History.

Norfolk Southern is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Norfolk Southern.

20 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Norfolk Southern's shares. Their forecasts range from $134.00 to $247.00. On average, they expect Norfolk Southern's stock price to reach $217.84 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Norfolk Southern.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Norfolk Southern in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Norfolk Southern.

Headlines about NSC stock have trended very positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Norfolk Southern earned a daily sentiment score of 3.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the railroad operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Norfolk Southern.

Norfolk Southern saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,670,000 shares, a drop of 13.0% from the January 15th total of 4,220,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,530,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.4 days. Currently, 1.4% of the company's shares are sold short. View Norfolk Southern's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Norfolk Southern include Union Pacific (UNP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), CSX (CSX), CENT JAPAN RWY/ADR (CJPRY), Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), Kansas City Southern (KSU), Genesee & Wyoming (GWR) and Guangshen Railway Co. Ltd ADR Class H (GSH).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Norfolk Southern investors own include Union Pacific (UNP), Verizon Communications (VZ), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), CSX (CSX), Intel (INTC), PepsiCo (PEP), Caterpillar (CAT), AT&T (T) and Visa (V).

Norfolk Southern's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (4.50%), Capital International Investors (2.47%), Capital World Investors (1.99%), FMR LLC (1.14%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.80%) and Alliancebernstein L.P. (0.75%). Company insiders that own Norfolk Southern stock include Ann A Adams, Carroll Trevor, Cynthia C Earhart, James A Squires, Jason Andrew Zampi, Jennifer F Scanlon, Michael Joseph Wheeler and Thomas E Hurlbut. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Norfolk Southern.

NSC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Alliancebernstein L.P., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Alyeska Investment Group L.P., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., KBC Group NV and Man Group plc. Company insiders that have sold Norfolk Southern company stock in the last year include Ann A Adams, James A Squires, Jason Andrew Zampi and Michael Joseph Wheeler. View Insider Buying and Selling for Norfolk Southern.

NSC stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Senator Investment Group LP, Franklin Resources Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Capital International Investors, Marshall Wace North America L.P. and Point72 Asset Management L.P.. Company insiders that have bought Norfolk Southern stock in the last two years include Carroll Trevor and Jennifer F Scanlon. View Insider Buying and Selling for Norfolk Southern.

Shares of NSC can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of NSC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $208.02.

Norfolk Southern has a market capitalization of $53.64 billion and generates $11.30 billion in revenue each year. The railroad operator earns $2.72 billion in net income (profit) each year or $10.34 on an earnings per share basis. Norfolk Southern employs 24,587 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Norfolk Southern.

The official website for Norfolk Southern is http://www.norfolksouthern.com/.

Norfolk Southern's mailing address is THREE COMMERCIAL PLACE, NORFOLK VA, 23510. The railroad operator can be reached via phone at 757-629-2680 or via email at [email protected]