As on Wednesday, Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE: NSC) got off with the flyer as it spiked 1.24% to $249.29, before settling in for the price of $246.24 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, NSC posted a 52-week range of $183.09-$263.66.
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In the past 5-years timespan, the Industrials sector firm’s annual sales growth was 1.77%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -3.35%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 0.35%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $226.10 million, simultaneously with a float of $225.95 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $56.36 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $241.54, while the 200-day Moving Average is $238.39.
Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Railroads industry. Norfolk Southern Corp.’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.07%, in contrast to 76.78% institutional ownership. Preceding that transaction, on Aug 01 ’24, Company’s Director bought 700 for 245.15, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 171,603. This particular insider is now the holder of 7,700 in total.
Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC) Earnings and Revenue Records
Norfolk Southern Corp.’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 0.35% and is forecasted to reach 13.68 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 8.90% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -3.35% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE: NSC) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.54. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 5.67. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $31.51, and its Beta score is 1.31. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 4.66.
In the same vein, NSC’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 7.91, a figure that is expected to reach 3.08 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 13.68 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Norfolk Southern Corp., NSC], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 1.38 million was better the volume of 1.27 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 16.21% While, its Average True Range was 5.77.
Raw Stochastic average of Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 78.88%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 26.78% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 26.69% that was lower than 27.86% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
