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 declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 22nd. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 1st will be given a dividend of $0.94 per share on Tuesday, December 10th. This represents a $3.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.81%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 31st. View Norfolk Southern's Dividend History.

Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE:NSC) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The railroad operator reported $2.49 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.57 by $0.08. The railroad operator earned $2.84 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.86 billion. Norfolk Southern had a net margin of 23.98% and a return on equity of 18.22%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 3.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $2.52 earnings per share. View Norfolk Southern's Earnings History.

Norfolk Southern is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 29th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Norfolk Southern.

Norfolk Southern will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, January 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

17 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for Norfolk Southern's stock. Their forecasts range from $130.00 to $237.00. On average, they expect Norfolk Southern's share price to reach $205.13 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Norfolk Southern.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Norfolk Southern in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Norfolk Southern.

Media stories about NSC stock have trended somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Norfolk Southern earned a media sentiment score of -1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the railroad operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Norfolk Southern.

Norfolk Southern saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,220,000 shares, an increase of 9.0% from the December 15th total of 3,870,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,560,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.7 days. Approximately 1.6% of the company's shares are short sold. 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), CSX (CSX), Exxon Mobil (XOM), PepsiCo (PEP), Intel (INTC), Caterpillar (CAT), AT&T (T) and Boeing (BA).

Norfolk Southern's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.20%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.12%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%), Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. (0.04%), Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (0.03%) and Neville Rodie & Shaw Inc. (0.03%). Company insiders that own Norfolk Southern stock include 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 Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, DNB Asset Management AS, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, United Services Automobile Association, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Summit Financial Group Inc. and Neville Rodie & Shaw Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Norfolk Southern company stock in the last year include 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 Artemis Investment Management LLP, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd., Baxter Bros Inc., Clear Street Markets LLC, Cox Capital Mgt LLC, 180 Wealth Advisors LLC and Compass Ion Advisors LLC. 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 $208.09.

Norfolk Southern has a market capitalization of $54.26 billion and generates $11.46 billion in revenue each year. The railroad operator earns $2.67 billion in net income (profit) each year or $9.51 on an earnings per share basis. Norfolk Southern employs 26,662 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]