Stock · CSX · Industrials
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1980 · Revenue 12 mo. $14.9B
Price as of 11/06/2026
CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based freight transportation services in the United States and Canada.
CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based freight transportation services in the United States and Canada. It operates through two segments: rail and trucking. The company offers rail services; and transportation of intermodal containers and trailers, as well as other transportation services, such as rail-to-truck transfers and bulk commodity operations. It also transports chemicals, agricultural and food products, minerals, automotive, forest products, fertilizers, and metals and equipment; and coal, coke, and iron ore to electricity-generating power plants, steel manufacturers, and industrial plants, as well as exports coal to deep-water port facilities. In addition, the company provides intermodal services through a network of approximately 30 terminals transporting manufactured consumer goods in containers; and drayage services, including the pickup and delivery of intermodal shipments. It serves the automotive industry with distribution centers and storage locations, as well as connects non-rail served customers through transferring products, such as plastics and ethanol from rail to trucks. The company operates approximately 20,000 route mile rail network, which serves various population centers in 26 states east of the Mississippi River, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as owns 3400 locomotives. It serves production and distribution facilities through track connections. CSX Corporation was incorporated in 1978 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Summary
52.5 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €1.5B (2025), it supports €17.1B. The remaining €65.2B of the market value assume it grows 21.9% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
21.9%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 16.2×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 11.7× to 14.8×, median 12.4×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No indication in the stored figures.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
4 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Gross margin, Net debt, Shares outstanding
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 21.95% | 13.10% | Rank 79 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 12.13% | 19.33% | Rank 28 |
| EBIT margin | 32.08% | 11.28% | Rank 94 |
| FCF margin | 12.14% | 8.50% | Rank 72 |
| Gross margin | 33.25% | 28.98% | Rank 61 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | −3.08% | 5.15% | Rank 12 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | −6.91% | 8.01% | Rank 19 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 5.25% | 12.89% | Rank 24 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 20.59% | 4.02% | Rank 94 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.16% | 4.42% | Rank 26 |
| FCF yield | 1.87% | 3.98% | Rank 22 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 7.83 | 2.08 | Rank 7 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 24.40 | 19.47 | Rank 33 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 30.10% | −0.01% | Rank 88 |
| Share price, 6 months | 10.05% | −1.43% | Rank 73 |
| Share price, 3 months | 2.84% | 0.53% | Rank 59 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −7.72% | −16.36% | Rank 79 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 2.61% | 1.39% | Rank 37 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −4.07% | −0.44% | Rank 91 |
| Dividend streak in years | 23 | 5 | Rank 91 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 7.87% | 0.27% | Rank 91 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 30.13% | 39.65% | Rank 28 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 3.18 | 1.38 | Rank 17 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 1.47 | 0.61 | Rank 15 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 22.43% | 32.95% | Rank 89 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 11.1 | 29.6% | $643.0M | 2.84B | 10.7 |
| 2017 | 11.4 | 32.9% | $1.4B | 2.74B | 11.4 |
| 2018 | 12.3 | 37.9% | $2.9B | 2.58B | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 11.9 | 39.8% | $3.2B | 2.39B | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 10.6 | 41.0% | $2.6B | 2.30B | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 12.5 | 41.2% | $3.3B | 2.26B | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 14.9 | 40.1% | $3.5B | 2.14B | 16.6 |
| 2023 | 14.7 | 37.3% | $3.3B | 2.01B | 17.7 |
| 2024 | 14.5 | 36.9% | $2.7B | 1.94B | 18.1 |
| 2025 | 14.1 | 32.1% | $1.7B | 1.86B | 18.7 |
3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
CSX Corporation mainly meets criteria in the Momentum category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
CSX Corporation is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
3 of 7 rules met
4 of 11 points
Detail data
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Selected fundamental metrics for CSX Corporation.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 31.7 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 7.0 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 22.0% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 30.1% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 1.47 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | 2.0% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| CSX | CSX Corporationthis page | |
| NSC | Norfolk Southern Corporation | Low2.7 |
| WAB | Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp | Medium5.5 |
| UNP | Union Pacific Corporation | Low3.6 |
| CP.TO | Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd | locked |
| CNR.TO | Canadian National Railway Co | locked |
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