Is it safe?
Can NSC take a bad year?
Norfolk Southern carries $15.5B of net debt at 2.85× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$15.5B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.85×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.50× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.36
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 5.13×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $16.6B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.07B
- Net debt
- $15.5B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $5.45B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $4.04B
- Debt / equity
- 1.02×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.05×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −44%
- Below its 52-week high
- −0.12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.