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NSC NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP

2026Q2 · CUSIP 655844108 · Sector: Industrials

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
1,874
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+33
Last quarter 1,841 → now 1,874
How unusual is that
Top 20%
Stronger buying than 87% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

1,874 funds held NSC at the end of 2026Q2, up 33 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 86.6% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $13.0B(YoY +6.0%), the P/E is 28.0x, return on equity is 16.0%. NSC has had 35 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +3.1% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Industrials sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=856 2013Q4: holders=950 2014Q1: holders=968 2014Q2: holders=1000 2014Q3: holders=1006 2014Q4: holders=1041 2015Q1: holders=996 2015Q2: holders=953 2015Q3: holders=907 2015Q4: holders=943 2016Q1: holders=927 2016Q2: holders=947 2016Q3: holders=956 2016Q4: holders=1019 2017Q1: holders=1032 2017Q2: holders=1050 2017Q3: holders=1063 2017Q4: holders=1148 2018Q1: holders=1165 2018Q2: holders=1194 2018Q3: holders=1243 2018Q4: holders=1257 2019Q1: holders=1310 2019Q2: holders=1328 2019Q3: holders=1294 2019Q4: holders=1355 2020Q1: holders=1259 2020Q2: holders=1286 2020Q3: holders=1360 2020Q4: holders=1451 2021Q1: holders=1511 2021Q2: holders=1539 2021Q3: holders=1488 2021Q4: holders=1639 2022Q1: holders=1642 2022Q2: holders=1539 2022Q3: holders=1499 2022Q4: holders=1588 2023Q1: holders=1499 2023Q2: holders=1528 2023Q3: holders=1446 2023Q4: holders=1579 2024Q1: holders=1628 2024Q2: holders=1564 2024Q3: holders=1609 2024Q4: holders=1687 2025Q1: holders=1656 2025Q2: holders=1697 2025Q3: holders=1800 2025Q4: holders=1852 2026Q1: holders=1841 2026Q2: holders=1874 -151 -75.5 +0 +75.5 +151 77013691968 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 35 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 20% — —
2025Q4 Top 10% -8.3% -0.3%
2025Q3 Top 5% +2.3% +12.1%
2025Q2 Top 10% +6.6% +2.0%
2024Q4 Top 10% -6.8% -3.3%
2024Q3 Top 10% -9.6% -5.0%
2024Q1 Top 5% -6.7% +4.8%
2023Q4 Top 5% -1.4% -7.6%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
347
Change in large funds
+30
Total value they hold
$53.7B
Funds buying for the first time
140
Funds that sold out entirely
107
Price change that quarter
+6.6%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
19
Funds holding calls (bullish)
18

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
28.0
EPS (TTM)
$11.93
EPS YoY
-9.1%
Revenue (TTM)
$13.0B
Revenue YoY
+6.0%
Net margin
20.7%
ROE
16.0%
Debt ratio
63.6%
FCF (TTM)
$1.6B
Dividend (TTM)
$5.40
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2021-12-31: EPS 3.11 2022-03-31: EPS 2.93 2022-06-30: EPS 3.45 2022-09-30: EPS 4.10 2022-12-31: EPS 3.40 2023-03-31: EPS 2.04 2023-06-30: EPS 1.56 2023-09-30: EPS 2.10 2023-12-31: EPS 2.32 2024-03-31: EPS 0.23 2024-06-30: EPS 3.25 2024-09-30: EPS 4.85 2024-12-31: EPS 3.24 2025-03-31: EPS 3.31 2025-06-30: EPS 3.41 2025-09-30: EPS 3.16 2025-12-31: EPS 2.87 2026-03-31: EPS 2.43 2026-06-30: EPS 3.26 2026-09-30: EPS 3.37 0B 1.8B 3.5B $B 0.00 2.67 5.34 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025202609/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 22 14 26 38 20222023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-180M394M968M 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $-38M (2026-03-31)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-09-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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