Norfolk Southern Corp (NYSE: NSC) kicked off on Tuesday, up 1.19% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $253.43. Over the past 52 weeks, NSC has traded in a range of $206.71-$277.60.
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Annual sales at Industrials sector company grew by 1.99% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 10.13%. With a float of $225.63 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $226.32 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 19600 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 38.36%, operating margin of 26.92%, and the pretax margin is 25.07%.
Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Railroads Industry. The insider ownership of Norfolk Southern Corp is 0.27%, while institutional ownership is 77.61%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jan 31 ’25, was worth 157,735. In this transaction Director of this company bought 607 shares at a rate of $259.86, taking the stock ownership to the 2,487 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 13 ’24, when Company’s Director bought 400 for $248.65, making the entire transaction worth $99,459. This insider now owns 4,400 shares in total.
Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.29 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 10.13% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.33% during the next five years compared to 2.46% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Norfolk Southern Corp (NYSE: NSC) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Norfolk Southern Corp’s (NSC) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.82. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.79. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 2072.11.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 11.57, a number that is poised to hit 2.89 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 14.91 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC)
Norfolk Southern Corp (NYSE: NSC) saw its 5-day average volume 0.91 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 1.21 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 35.17%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 5.47.
During the past 100 days, Norfolk Southern Corp’s (NSC) raw stochastic average was set at 55.57%, which indicates a significant increase from 40.42% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 22.96% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 26.46% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $248.62, while its 200-day Moving Average is $242.42. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $258.13 in the near term. At $259.80, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $262.59. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $253.67, it is likely to go to the next support level at $250.88. The third support level lies at $249.21 if the price breaches the second support level.
Norfolk Southern Corp (NYSE: NSC) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 58.02 billion has total of 226,240K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 12,123 M in contrast with the sum of 2,622 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 3,024 M and last quarter income was 733,000 K.
