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Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) stock score

Industrials · Railroads · United States

$317.79 ▲ +0.25% today

48.6
Dad Score, out of 100
middling

Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) is a Railroads company in the Industrials sector, listed in the United States. On DadFin's weekly run it scores 48.6 out of 100 on the Dad Score, a middling reading that places the business ahead of 49% of the 5,774 US and Canadian stocks DadFin fully scores. Inside Industrials it ranks #395 of 704. Its strongest axes are quality, risk and conviction; its weakest are price action and macro.

Scores from the run of Oct 4, 2026. The Dad Score answers one question: how good is this business, measured against its own sector. How it is built →

The eight axes

Valuation
Average
Quality
Strong
Growth
Average
Price action
Below average
Risk
Above average
Conviction
Above average
Liquidity
Strong
Macro
Below average

Each axis is ranked inside the stock's own sector. Subscribers see the percentile and every input behind each bar.

Key numbers

P/E (trailing)27.1×
P/E (forward)22.2×
Dividend yield1.74%
Return on capital10.8%
Operating margin35.3%
Revenue growth (YoY)+0.5%
FCF yield2.5%
Net debt / EBITDA2.84×
Piotroski F-Score6 / 9
52-week change+7.8%
Market cap$71.3B
Next earningsOct 22, 2026

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Railroads peers

StockCompanyDad ScoreBandMarket cap
UNPUnion Pacific Corporation84.9good$165.3B
CSXCSX Corporation28.9weak$87.9B
CPCanadian Pacific Kansas City Limit39.6weak$75.5B
CNICanadian National Railway Company66.8middling$72.4B
WABWestinghouse Air Brake Technologie53.5middling$48.6B
TRNTrinity Industries, Inc.21.9weak$2.1B
GBXThe Greenbrier Companies, Inc.16.9weak$1.3B

Prices from DadFin's live feed (refreshed about every 15 minutes in the session); scores from the weekly run of Oct 4, 2026. Fundamentals as reported in the latest filings. Research, not investment advice.