Thursday, May 31, 2012

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Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE:NSC) achieved its new 52 week high price of $78.40 where it was opened at $76.40 UP +0.57 points or +0.75% by closing at $76.12. NSC transacted shares during the day were over 5.14 million shares however it has an average volume of 2.08 million shares.

NSC has a market capitalization $26.89 billion and an enterprise value at $33.18 billion. Trailing twelve months price to sales ratio of the stock was 2.72 while price to book ratio in most recent quarter was 2.54. In profitability ratios, net profit margin in past twelve months appeared at 15.80% whereas operating profit margin for the same period at 27.59%.

The company made a return on asset of 6.16% in past twelve months and return on equity of 14.78% for similar period. In the period of trailing 12 months it generated revenue amounted to $9.90 billion gaining $27.27 revenue per share. Its year over year, quarterly growth of revenue was 17.10% holding 26.50% quarterly earnings growth.

According to preceding quarter balance sheet results, the company had $488.00 million cash in hand making cash per share at 1.38. The total of $6.75 billion debt was there putting a total debt to equity ratio 63.67. Moreover its current ratio according to same quarter results was 1.17 and book value per share was 30.01.

Looking at the trading information, the stock price history displayed that its S&P500 52 Week Change illustrated 17.97% where the stock current price exhibited up beat from its 50 day moving average price of $73.67 and remained below from its 200 Day Moving Average price of $69.01.

NSC holds 353.22 million outstanding shares with 352.22 million floating shares where insider possessed 0.34% and institutions kept 67.10%.

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