NSC — Norfolk Southern Corporation
Industrials · ETF XLI · as of 2026-09-18
Daily · EMA 10 / 20 / 50 · SMA 200 · VolPress: buy/sell split, 20-SMA, white dot = above avg · · E = earnings · RS vs SPY ⓘ · ● RS new high ⓘ
Norfolk Southern Corporation
NYQ
Industrials · Railroads
Norfolk Southern Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the United States. The company transports agriculture, forest, and consumer products comprising soybeans, wheat, corn, fertilizers, livestock and poultry feed, food products, food oils, flour, sweeteners, ethanol, lumber and wood products, pulp board and paper products, wood fibers, wood pulp, beverages, and canned goods; chemicals consis...
Market cap
75.1B
P/E (TTM)
26.8
EPS (TTM)
11.74
Employees
19,300
IPO
1982-06-02
Website
Price & today
$314.16
ATR(14) 5.78 (1.84%)
| Stock today | -1.51% |
| Sector ETF today | +0.44% |
| Residual (stock-specific) | -1.95% |
Sector correlation
| 20-day correlation with XLI | 0.32 |
| 60-day correlation with XLI | 0.34 |
| Status | normal |
Decoupling fires when 60d corr − 20d corr > 0.20: stock used to track its sector but the relationship has weakened recently.
Technicals
| 10 EMA | $321.92 |
| 20 EMA | $327.56 |
| 50 EMA | $329.88 |
| EMA stack | BEARISH |
| RSI(14) | 29.3 oversold |
| 52-week high distance | -12.39% |
| 52-week low distance | +17.12% |
Signals
| Market F&G | 46.9 |
| Bull% | 12.2% |
| OVTLYR status | SELL (9d) |
| Sector rank | #340 |
| Next earnings | 2026-10-21 (BMO, 32d) |
MarketSmith metrics - our compute
RS Rating
16.0
ADR%
1.6
RMV (tight)
25.0
Ext (ATR>20EMA)
-2.3
Rel Vol
158.0%
U/D 50d
0.88
U/D 25d
0.64
Accum/Dist 25d
4 / 6
EPS YoY
+7.0%
LoD dist
3.0
Off 52w High
12.4%
Above 52w Low
13.1%
1W / 1M
-1.9 / -9.1
Avg $Vol 50d
402.3M
Mkt Cap (B)
70.6
Trend 8/8
no
Leads Group
no
Sector XLI
-1.5% 1W
Base len (VCP)
10wk (2/23)
Coil (base shape)
85TVPX
What do these abbreviations mean?
- RS Rating
- - IBD-style relative strength vs SPY (weighted 3/6/9/12-mo). 70+ = leaders pool, 80+ = strong.
- ADR%
- - average daily range over 20 days. 4%+ = the fast movers the playbook prefers (selection order, not a gate).
- RMV (tight)
- - Relative Measured Volatility, 15 bars, scaled 0-100. <15 = tight coiled base (green), <35 moderate, high = loose/expanding - not a base right now.
- Ext (ATR>20EMA)
- - how many ATRs price sits above its 20-EMA. ≤1 = in value (green), >2 = extended/chasing (red) - prefer a pullback.
- Rel Vol
- - latest volume vs the 50-day average. 100% = normal; 140%+ = breakout confirmation.
- U/D 50d / 25d
- - up-day vs down-day volume over the window. 1.1+ = net accumulation (institutions buying); under 0.9 on the 25d = net selling.
- Accum/Dist 25d
- - heavy-volume up days vs heavy-volume down days in the last 25 sessions (close moved 0.2%+ on above-average volume). The institutional-participation footprint; 5+ distribution days = O'Neil caution line.
- LoD dist
- - close distance above the day low in % of ATR (100 = one full ATR off the low). High = strong close.
- Off/Above 52w
- - trend-template legs: within 25% of the 52-week high, at least 25% above the 52-week low.
- Trend 8/8
- - all 8 Minervini Trend Template criteria pass. Discovery floor, NOT an entry signal - entries come from the VCP pivot.
- Base len (VCP)
- - weeks since the VCP base started on the latest scan. 10wk+ bases carry the edge; short stacked bases test below random.
Fundamentals & valuation - reference, not entry inputs
P/E (TTM)
26.8
Fwd P/E
22.0
PEG
4.4
Price/Book
4.6
Profit margin
21.0%
ROE
17.0%
Debt/Equity
105.5
Rev growth
+11.4%
Analyst target
$365 (+16%)
Analyst rating
HOLD
Institutional %
78.7%
Insider %
0.1%
Float %
98.3%
Valuation and analyst figures are Yahoo company stats (weekly refresh, ~3,000 larger names - blanks are honest gaps); logo, employees, website and IPO date are Massive company reference. Momentum/VCP entries do not use valuation - this card is context so you do not have to leave the page.
Company data - context read, not entry inputs
Industry rank
85 / 147
Industry
Railroads
Float
220.9M
Float turnover 20d
0.5%
Avg $Vol 20d / 50d
375.1M / 402.3M
Days to cover
7.7
Short % float
3.7%
Institutional %
78.7%
Weinstein stage
1
Float, short interest and institutional % come from Yahoo company stats, refreshed weekly for ~3,000 larger names - a blank means Yahoo does not publish the figure for this stock, not that it is zero. Dollar volume and float turnover are computed from our own price bars; industry rank from our rotation data; stage from the weekly chart.
Quarterly EPS - earnings acceleration
A dash in %Chg is deliberate: the year-ago figure was a loss, so a growth % would be meaningless. A dash in Sales means we have no revenue figure for that quarter - read it as a gap in our data, not as zero revenue.
| Quarter | EPS ($) | %Chg YoY | Sales ($M) | %Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct-24 | 3.25 | +23% | 3,051.0 | +3% |
| Jan-25 | 3.04 | +7% | 3,024.0 | -2% |
| Apr-25 | 2.69 | -18% | 2,993.0 | +0% |
| Jul-25 | 3.29 | +8% | 3,110.0 | +2% |
| Oct-25 | 3.30 | +2% | 3,103.0 | +2% |
| Jan-26 | 3.22 | +6% | 2,974.0 | -2% |
| Apr-26 | 2.65 | -1% | 2,998.0 | +0% |
| Jul-26 | 3.52 | +7% | 3,465.0 | +11% |
† = SEC carries this same fiscal quarter under a second period-end with a materially different figure (hover for it) - a restatement, merger recast or successor-period split; %Chg is blanked when the two are more than 15% apart. It fires only when the two period-ends DISAGREE, so it is a floor, not a guarantee that the rest of the column shares one basis · ‡ = the revenue concept changed from the previous quarter WITH A FIGURE (hover for both) - a blank row in between is skipped, as the eye does - a step at that row is a change of basis, not necessarily of business · EPS = Yahoo
eps_actual (the figure MarketSmith/Deepvue show) - whether a given quarter is GAAP or excludes a one-off follows the filing, so it can sit either side of another vendor's number; AAPL's Oct-24 row, the Sep-2024 fiscal quarter, is $0.97 here - GAAP, including the EU tax charge - where TradingView's year implies $1.64 · Sales ($M) = SEC EDGAR quarterly revenue (fiscal Q4 derived as FY minus 9-mo) · quarter = report month · %Chg blank = prior-year base under $0.05 (not meaningful).Recent news - our DB (Finnhub + OVTLYR)
- Sep 16 − CEO of Iconic Railroad Stock Unloads More Than 1,000 Shares The Motley Fool
- Aug 28 · Union Pacific: M&A Optionality Isn't Enough To Justify Buying At Fair Value SeekingAlpha
- Aug 26 · STB Should Reject Opponents' Baseless Prima Facie Challenges; Union Pacific – Norfolk Southern Merger Application Easily Meets the Standard Business Wire
- Aug 21 + Norfolk Southern EPS Estimates Northbound: How to Play the Stock? Zacks Investment Research
- Aug 21 · Norfolk Southern EPS Estimates Northbound: How to Play the Stock? Yahoo
- Aug 20 · Norfolk Southern’s ‘Golden Triangle’ | Why Georgia is Key for Rail Yahoo
- Aug 20 · Norfolk Southern (NSC) Moved, So What Is Drawing Attention Now? Yahoo
- Aug 20 · Do Wall Street Analysts Like Norfolk Southern Stock? Yahoo