Norfolk Southern has grown revenue −0.40% a year over three years and 3.6% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 1.7%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: −0.40% (Railroads median +3.0%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +3.6%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +1.7%, earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders. Years of annual history on file: 19, FY2007 to FY2025, as filed.

NSCNorfolk Southern

Industrials

$317.70+14% 1Y

$317.70

$275.7852 weeks$352.99

Is it growing?

Watch

Growth is fading: earnings down −21% year on year and operating margin narrowing (−9.3 points).

2 to watch, 1 neutral

Revenue trend+3% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +4% a year.

Earnings trend−21% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing slower than revenue, so the growth is costing something.

Margin direction−9.3 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 32.1% now against 41.4% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 30, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Revenue growth, 3 yearsbehind 80% of the market

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is NSC growing?

Norfolk Southern has grown revenue −0.40% a year over three years and 3.6% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 1.7%.

−0.40%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Railroads median +3.0% · shrinking · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +3.6%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · −0.40% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +1.7%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue −0.40% · earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders
Years of annual history on file: 19
Years of annual history on file · FY2007 to FY2025, as filed