Norfolk Southern
$310.26Change from previous close: +0.41%Absolute change: +$1.26
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $69.69B
- Enterprise value
- $85.77B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 26.5
- Forward P/E
- 21.7
- PEG
- 3.65
- Price/book
- 4.29
- Price/sales
- 5.56
- EV/EBITDA
- 15.1
- EV/revenue
- 6.84
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 45.2%
- Operating margin
- 35.3%
- Net margin
- 21.0%
- ROE
- 17.0%
- ROA
- 6.0%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 11.4%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- -4.4%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $1.07B
- Total debt
- $17.15B
- Debt/equity
- 1.06
- Current ratio
- 0.83
- Quick ratio
- 0.67
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $5.40
- Dividend yield
- 1.7%
- Payout ratio
- 46.1%
- Ex-dividend date
- August 7, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $363.50
- Median price target
- $369.50
- High price target
- $414.00
- Low price target
- $297.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 18
- Consensus
- Hold
- Forward EPS
- $14.31
- EPS estimate, current year
- $12.94
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 1.27
- Average volume
- 1.13M
- Shares outstanding
- 224.61M
- Float
- 224.25M
- Institutional ownership
- 77.6%
- Insider ownership
- 0.0%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 3.4%
- Short ratio (days)
- 6.36
