Norfolk Southern Stock Forecast, Price & News

21 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Norfolk Southern in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings, 13 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" Norfolk Southern stock.
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Norfolk Southern saw a decline in short interest during the month of January. As of January 29th, there was short interest totaling 2,160,000 shares, a decline of 22.0% from the January 14th total of 2,770,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,180,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.8 days. Approximately 0.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Norfolk Southern is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 5th 2021.
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Norfolk Southern Co. (NYSE:NSC) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, January, 26th. The railroad operator reported $2.64 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.48 by $0.16. The railroad operator earned $2.60 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.54 billion. Norfolk Southern had a net margin of 20.27% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.83%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 3.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $2.55 EPS.
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Norfolk Southern's stock was trading at $151.36 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, NSC shares have increased by 73.0% and is now trading at $261.78.
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Norfolk Southern announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 27th. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.99 per share on Wednesday, March 10th. This represents a $3.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.51%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 4th. This is an increase from Norfolk Southern's previous quarterly dividend of $0.94.
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Norfolk Southern pays an annual dividend of $3.96 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.54%. Norfolk Southern does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Norfolk Southern is 38.30%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Norfolk Southern will have a dividend payout ratio of 35.97% next year. This indicates that Norfolk Southern will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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21 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Norfolk Southern's shares. Their forecasts range from $145.00 to $290.00. On average, they expect Norfolk Southern's share price to reach $232.78 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.1%.
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268 employees have rated Norfolk Southern CEO James A. Squires on Glassdoor.com. James A. Squires has an approval rating of 16% among Norfolk Southern's employees. This puts James A. Squires in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Some companies that are related to Norfolk Southern include Union Pacific (UNP), Canadian National Railway (CNI), CSX (CSX), Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), Central Japan Railway (CJPRY), Kansas City Southern (KSU) and Guangshen Railway (GSHHY).
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Norfolk Southern trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "NSC."

Norfolk Southern's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.05%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (6.34%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (3.48%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.70%), Lazard Asset Management LLC (1.85%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.68%). Company insiders that own Norfolk Southern stock include Alan H Shaw, Ann A Adams, Carroll Trevor, Clyde H Allison Jr, James A Squires, Jason Andrew Zampi, Jennifer F Scanlon and Michael Joseph Wheeler.
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NSC stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Lazard Asset Management LLC, Northern Trust Corp, Riggs Asset Managment Co. Inc., Epoch Investment Partners Inc., Cibc World Markets Corp, and BlackRock Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Norfolk Southern company stock in the last year include Alan H Shaw, Ann A Adams, Clyde H Allison Jr, James A Squires, and Michael Joseph Wheeler.
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NSC stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Magellan Asset Management Ltd, FIL Ltd, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, First Trust Advisors LP, and Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Norfolk Southern stock in the last two years include Alan H Shaw, Carroll Trevor, and Jennifer F Scanlon.
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Shares of NSC can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of NSC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $261.78.

Norfolk Southern has a market capitalization of $71.26 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.

The official website for Norfolk Southern is www.norfolksouthern.com.

Norfolk Southern is headquartered at THREE COMMERCIAL PLACE, NORFOLK VA, 23510.

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]