Is the price fair?
What NSC's price assumes
Norfolk Southern trades at 30.1× earnings against 27.6× for the median Railroads name, more expensive than its own group.
30.1
Trailing P/E · Railroads median 27.6 · 1.09× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 5.28
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.4%
Free cash flow yield · Railroads median 3.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +15%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +15% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −6.5% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 4.07
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Railroads median P/E8 names
- 27.6
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.63B
- Market capitalisation
- $67.4B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −0.40%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −6.5%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $182.77 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $217.43 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $251.34 |
| 52-week range | $268.69 – $352.99 |
| Today | $352.57 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.