Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC): Price and Financial Metrics

NSC POWR Grades

• NSC scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 94.47% of US stocks.
• NSC's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• NSC's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 20.86% of US stocks).

NSC Stock Summary

• NSC has a higher market value than 96.08% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $68,494,824,653.
• NSC's went public 36.27 years ago, making it older than 92.84% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, NSC is more volatile than only 12.69% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Norfolk Southern Corp are AMOV, CP, FDX, CI, and TFC.
• Visit NSC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.norfolksouthern.com.

NSC Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, NSC's price/earnings ratio is 9.79% lower, now standing at 23.5.
• NSC's price/sales ratio has moved up 4.9 over the prior 243 months.
• NSC's price/sales ratio has moved up 4.9 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for NSC.

NSC Growth Metrics

Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 23.05%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -30.22%.
• The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 25.86%.

NSC's revenue has moved up $1,236,000,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows NSC's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	11,142	4,255	3,005
2021-09-30	10,863	4,183	2,916
2021-06-30	10,517	3,976	2,732
2021-03-31	9,803	3,697	2,305
2020-12-31	9,789	3,637	2,013
2020-09-30	9,906	3,662	2,008

NSC's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• NSC has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 89.98% of graded US stocks.
• NSC's asset turnover comes in at 0.284 -- ranking 71st of 137 Transportation stocks.
• CSX, UNP, and PTSI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with NSC.

The table below shows NSC's key quality metrics over time.