Norfolk Southern Corp (NYSE:NSC) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price down by -1.98% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $230.55.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $235.21, falling within a range of $230.3 and $234.92. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.348 whereas the PE ratio was 19.93 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $277.60, and the low was $206.71. On the whole, NSC has fluctuated by -4.80% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Norfolk Southern Corp currently standing at about $52.20 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-28. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 5.40, with its dividend yield at 2.34%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 12.45B, with a low estimate of 2.93B and a high estimate of 3.07B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 3.01B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that NSC’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.64, with the price of NSC currently trading nearly -2.01% and -5.91% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 38.50, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.41% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.05%. Furthermore, Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC)’s beta value is 1.32, and its average true range (ATR) is 4.82.
A comparison of Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. NSC showed an intraday change of -1.98% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -6.74%%.
Data on historical trading for Norfolk Southern Corp (NYSE:NSC) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.05 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.22 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 226.32 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.07% of Norfolk Southern Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 78.12% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 2.85 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 2.08. According to the data, the short interest in Norfolk Southern Corp (NSC) stood at 126.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 2.53 million. The stock has fallen by -1.77% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the NSC stock heading into the next quarter.
