Seeing Is Believing
NSC is currently covered by 20 analysts with an average price target of $320.13. This is a potential upside of $30.35 (10.47%) from yesterday's end of day stock price of $289.78.
Norfolk Southern's activity chart (see below) currently has 597 price targets and 438 ratings on display. The stock rating distribution of NSC is 56.52% BUY and 43.48% HOLD.
Analysts average stock forecasts to be materialized ratio is 88.7% with an average time for these price targets to be met of 332.7 days.
Highest price target for NSC is $323, Lowest price target is $247, average price target is $288.39.
Most recent stock forecast was given by ARIEL ROSA from CITI on 12-Oct-2025. First documented stock forecast 09-Jul-2013.
Currently out of the existing stock ratings of NSC, 39 are a BUY (56.52%), 30 are a HOLD (43.48%).
Analyst name
Rating
Current price target
Potential Upside
Previous price target
Date
Price targets met ratio
Average potential upside
Average Days to Hit Target
Performance score
Hold
$316
$26.22 (9.05%)
$305
6 days ago
(12-Oct-2025)
12/16 (75%)
$26.43 (9.13%)
609
Hold
$303
$13.22 (4.56%)
$288
11 days ago
(07-Oct-2025)
22/25 (88%)
$6.38 (2.15%)
267
Buy
$320
$30.22 (10.43%)
$300
17 days ago
(01-Oct-2025)
21/24 (87.5%)
$21.7 (7.27%)
372
Hold
$295
$5.22 (1.80%)
$260
24 days ago
(24-Sep-2025)
22/27 (81.48%)
$0.43 (0.15%)
342
Hold
$285
2 months 19 days ago
(29-Jul-2025)
7/9 (77.78%)
$31.97 (12.63%)
372
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