Last updated 31 Jul 2026, 19:51 UTC · updated through the trading day
Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index Today
The Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index today is 43/100, showing Neutral. CFGI measures current Norfolk Southern market sentiment using live market data and proprietary behavioural models. It has been Neutral for 26 hours. Get the next update by email, free
Live Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index
The Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index today is 43/100 (Neutral), up from 30/100 (Fear) yesterday and down 37 points from last week's reading of 80 (Extreme Greed).
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Live Norfolk Southern Price and Sentiment Chart
Norfolk Southern price colored by CFGI fear and greed sentiment over the selected daily range.
This daily chart compares Norfolk Southern price movement with live fear, greed, neutral and extreme sentiment readings for the wider market trend.
During the last 895 days, Norfolk Southern sentiment ranged from 18 (Extreme Fear) to 90 (Extreme Greed), with the current reading sitting at 43.
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What Is the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index Today?
The Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index today shows whether the current Norfolk Southern market is being driven by fear, neutrality or greed. It gives a live sentiment reading so traders can understand whether conditions are cautious, balanced or risk-on.
Current Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index Value
The current Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index value is measured from 0 to 100. Lower scores suggest fear, uncertainty or weak confidence in the Norfolk Southern market, while higher scores suggest greed, confidence or stronger risk appetite.
- Daily Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index: 43/100, showing Neutral for the wider market trend.
- 4-hour Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index: 51/100, showing Neutral for the medium-term market trend.
- 1-hour Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index: 57/100, showing Neutral for the short-term market trend.
- 15-minute Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index: 65/100, showing Greed for the intraday and day trading.
These multi-timeframe readings help compare long-term, medium-term, short-term and intraday Norfolk Southern sentiment in one place.
What Does the Current Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Score Mean?
Neutral on the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index reflects a market without a strong bias in either direction. Neither fear nor greed is dominating. Traders typically read a Neutral zone as a period of consolidation or indecision, a moment to wait for a clearer directional signal before committing to high-conviction trades.
Is the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index a Buy or Sell Signal?
The Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index is a market sentiment indicator, not a standalone buy or sell signal. Traders use it to understand whether fear, greed, neutral or extreme sentiment is present, then compare that reading with price action, liquidity and risk management.
Which Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Timeframe Should I Use?
Use the daily reading for the wider Norfolk Southern market trend, the 4-hour reading for medium-term conditions, the 1-hour reading for short-term sentiment and the 15-minute reading for intraday moves. The best timeframe depends on how long you plan to hold or monitor the market.
How Often Is the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index Updated?
The Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index updates through the US trading day across four timeframes (15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily) while the market is open, recalculated from NSC's price action and nine other signals.
How to Read the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index Chart
The Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index chart shows how Norfolk Southern sentiment has moved through different conditions over time. Use it to compare the current reading with previous periods of fear, greed, neutrality and extreme market conditions.
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How CFGI Calculates the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index
CFGI combines live Norfolk Southern market signals into one fear and greed reading. The modules below show whether the current Norfolk Southern score is being driven by price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity or order book pressure.
Ten signals, one number. Every signal is scored against this asset's own history, so a reading of greed means greedier than usual for this asset, never a raw comparison between one market and another.
Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Components
- Price Score: 57 (Neutral)
- Volatility Score: 11 (Extreme Fear)
- Volume Score: 24 (Fear)
- Impulse Score: 29 (Fear)
- Technical Score: 64 (Greed)
- Social Score: 69 (Greed)
- Dominance Score: 51 (Neutral)
- Search Score: 24 (Fear)
- Whale Score: 50 (Neutral)
- Order Book Score: 5 (Extreme Fear)
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Norfolk Southern Market Sentiment Today
Norfolk Southern market sentiment today is shaped by price action, volatility, trading volume, technical indicators, social activity and wider market behaviour. CFGI combines these signals to show how Norfolk Southern sentiment is changing throughout the day.
Compare Norfolk Southern with the whole-market reading on the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index, or every company on the stock fear and greed directory.
What Is Norfolk Southern?
The slow train to greed.
Norfolk Southern is one of the two great railroads of the eastern United States, created in 1982 from a lineage that reaches back to the dawn of American rail, and now at the centre of a proposed combination with Union Pacific that would create the country's first true transcontinental railway, a plan still sitting with regulators. Railroads are patience businesses. The CFGI Norfolk Southern fear and greed index shows a crowd that shares the temperament, then gets rewarded for it.
The CFGI read: Norfolk Southern's single day of Extreme Fear says everything about how sentiment actually works. It came on 19 March 2026, a 19 out of 100 with the price at $278.19, a price above the $277.38 at which this very crowd had printed its Extreme Greed peak of 82 on 21 July 2025. Same station, opposite trains, because the crowd scores direction, not position. Even then the fear was mostly borrowed: 128 of the 245 stocks we scored that day sat in Fear or worse.
Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index History
Q3 2026 breakdown. The table below updates daily.
The rest of the ledger is patience in numbers: 117 of its 273 days in Neutral, 115 in Greed or better against just 41 at Fear or worse, an average of 54 out of 100, and only that lone March day of panic, ranking it 168th of the stocks we score by Extreme Fear. The one real gloom, 12 consecutive sessions in Fear or worse from 6 to 23 March 2026, sat inside a spring that also produced the sharpest recovery, a 29-point jump from 49 to 78 on 23 April 2026, and the longest warm spell, 16 sessions in Greed or better from 2 to 24 February 2026.
The destination justified the ride. From a $255.21 low on 25 June 2025, almost the first day of the window, the price climbed 37.3% from $256.58 to $352.32, setting its high on the final scored day. The crowd arrived with it: on 24 July 2026 the score closed at 80, back in Extreme Greed, price and mood on their highs together, a zone it had first visited across three days from 18 to 22 July 2025. A year of Neutral patience, a 34-point stumble from 74 to 40 on 28 May 2026 quickly forgotten, and a finish at full steam, the slow train pulling in right on time on the Fear and Greed Index.
Days by zone, the last 365 days (250 readings)
| Extreme Fear | Fear | Neutral | Greed | Extreme Greed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extreme Fear: 1 | Fear: 42 | Neutral: 113 | Greed: 91 | Extreme Greed: 3 |
Source: CFGI dataset, 250 daily readings across the 365 days to 31 Jul 2026. Updates daily.
For the market Norfolk Southern trades in, see the stock fear and greed index, which scores the whole US market on the same 0 to 100 scale.
Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) Stock Fundamentals, Analyst Ratings & Financials
Beyond the sentiment score: the fundamentals, analyst views and financials for Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), for context alongside the live Fear and Greed reading above. Company data via Financial Modeling Prep.
About Norfolk Southern Corporation
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Railroads
- CEO
- Mark R. George
- Employees
- 19,300
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Headquarters
- Atlanta, GA, US
- Listed
- Jun 2, 1982
- Website
- www.norfolksouthern.com
Key Stats & Valuation
- Market cap
- $75.4B
- P/E (TTM)
- 28.6
- P/B
- 4.65
- Net margin
- 21.02%
- Beta
- 1.26
- Dividend yield
- 1.61%
- 52-week range
- $268 – $359
- 74% of range
Analyst Ratings & Price Target
What Wall Street thinks: the consensus rating and average price target from 48 independent equity analysts covering NSC.
Ratings and price targets are aggregated from independent Wall Street analysts (data via Financial Modeling Prep). They are not investment advice or a recommendation from CFGI.
Earnings
Next earnings: Oct 22, 2026 · EPS estimate $3.57 per share.
| Reported | EPS actual | Estimate | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2026 | $3.52 | $3.32 | +6% |
| Apr 24, 2026 | $2.65 | $2.49 | +6% |
| Jan 29, 2026 | $3.22 | $2.76 | +17% |
| Oct 23, 2025 | $3.30 | $3.19 | +3% |
EPS figures are earnings per share (USD), not total company profit.
Financials
Annual revenue, net income and earnings per share. “Growth” is year-over-year revenue.
| Year | Revenue | Growth | Net income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $12.18B | +0% | $2.87B | $12.75 |
| 2024 | $12.12B | -0% | $2.62B | $11.58 |
| 2023 | $12.16B | -5% | $1.83B | $8.04 |
| 2022 | $12.74B | +14% | $3.27B | $13.92 |
| 2021 | $11.14B | +14% | $3.00B | $12.16 |
| 2020 | $9.79B | -13% | $2.01B | $7.88 |
| 2019 | $11.30B | -1% | $2.72B | $10.32 |
| 2018 | $11.46B | +9% | $2.67B | $9.94 |
| 2017 | $10.55B | +7% | $5.40B | $18.76 |
| 2016 | $9.89B | -6% | $1.67B | $5.66 |
| 2015 | $10.51B | -10% | $1.56B | $5.13 |
| 2014 | $11.62B | +3% | $2.00B | $6.44 |
| 2013 | $11.24B | +2% | $1.91B | $6.10 |
| 2012 | $11.04B | -1% | $1.75B | $5.42 |
| 2011 | $11.17B | +17% | $1.92B | $5.52 |
| 2010 | $9.52B | +19% | $1.50B | $4.06 |
| 2009 | $7.97B | -25% | $1.03B | $2.79 |
| 2008 | $10.66B | +13% | $1.72B | $4.60 |
| 2007 | $9.43B | +0% | $1.46B | $3.74 |
| 2006 | $9.41B | +10% | $1.48B | $3.63 |
| 2005 | $8.53B | +17% | $1.28B | $3.17 |
| 2004 | $7.31B | +13% | $923.0M | $2.34 |
| 2003 | $6.47B | +3% | $535.0M | $1.37 |
| 2002 | $6.27B | +2% | $460.0M | $1.18 |
| 2001 | $6.17B | +0% | $375.0M | $0.97 |
| 2000 | $6.16B | +19% | $172.0M | $0.45 |
| 1999 | $5.20B | +23% | $239.0M | $0.63 |
| 1998 | $4.22B | -0% | $734.0M | $1.94 |
| 1997 | $4.22B | -11% | $721.0M | $1.91 |
| 1996 | $4.77B | +2% | $770.4M | $2.03 |
| 1995 | $4.67B | +2% | $712.7M | $1.81 |
| 1994 | $4.58B | +3% | $667.8M | $1.63 |
| 1993 | $4.46B | -3% | $772.0M | $1.85 |
| 1992 | $4.61B | +3% | $557.7M | $1.31 |
| 1991 | $4.45B | -4% | $29.7M | $0.07 |
| 1990 | $4.62B | +2% | $556.1M | $1.16 |
| 1989 | $4.54B | +2% | $606.2M | $1.17 |
| 1988 | $4.46B | +8% | $635.1M | $1.16 |
| 1987 | $4.11B | +1% | $172.4M | $0.30 |
| 1986 | $4.08B | — | $518.7M | $0.91 |
Bar = revenue; green grew, red fell vs the prior year.
Dividends
- Dividend yield
- 1.61%
- Last dividend
- $1.35
- Ex-date
- Aug 7, 2026
Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index FAQ
What is the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index today?
The Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index today is 43/100 on the daily view, showing Neutral. It summarizes live Norfolk Southern market sentiment on a 0 to 100 scale.
How is the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index calculated?
CFGI combines price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity and order book pressure into one Norfolk Southern fear and greed reading.
What is a good Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index reading?
There is no single good reading, because the index measures mood rather than value. Extreme Fear below 25 marks the points where sentiment is most washed out, and Extreme Greed above 75 the points carrying the most risk, so what counts as good depends on whether you are buying or selling.
How accurate is the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index?
It reads sentiment accurately and predicts price poorly, and those are two different things. The score reflects what the Norfolk Southern market feels right now across ten live inputs, so treat it as a risk gauge rather than a forecast: it tells you how one-sided the crowd has become, not what happens next.
What does the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index measure?
It measures the emotional state of the Norfolk Southern market on a 0 to 100 scale, from extreme fear at 0 to extreme greed at 100. CFGI builds that number from ten indicators including price action, volatility, volume, momentum, technicals and social sentiment, rather than from price alone.
How do I use the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index?
Most people use it to size risk rather than to time entries. The extreme readings are the useful ones: they flag when the crowd has become one-sided, which is when caution costs least and greed costs most. Read it alongside price and volume, never on its own.
How often is the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index updated?
The Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index is updated every 15 minutes, so the live reading can change as Norfolk Southern market conditions shift.
What does a low Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed score mean?
A low score (0 to 39) signals fear or extreme fear, where traders are cautious, risk-averse or pessimistic about the Norfolk Southern market.
What does a high Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed score mean?
A high score (60 to 100) signals greed or extreme greed, where confidence, risk appetite and bullish sentiment dominate the Norfolk Southern market.
Can I get alerts when the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index changes?
Yes. CFGI alerts let you track Norfolk Southern sentiment across daily, 4-hour, 1-hour and 15-minute timeframes. Create alerts for fear, greed, extreme readings or specific Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index score changes.
Can I add the Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index to my website?
Yes. The CFGI widget lets you embed a live Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed Index on your website, so visitors can see current Norfolk Southern sentiment, live scores and market conditions without you building the data system yourself.
Can I use Norfolk Southern Fear and Greed data in my own app or trading bot?
Yes. The CFGI API gives developers access to Norfolk Southern sentiment data, multi-timeframe fear and greed scores and market signals for dashboards, trading bots, apps and research tools.
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About CFGI
The per-asset sentiment record.
CFGI is a market sentiment data company that scores crowd emotion from 0 to 100 across crypto and stock markets. Crypto readings cover the whole market and hundreds of individual assets across 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily views. The stock index gives a live daily reading for wider stock market sentiment.
Every CFGI score is built from 10 indicators: price, volatility, volume, impulse, technical analysis, social media, dominance, search interest, whale movements and order book pressure. The same data powers our API, alerts and embeddable widgets.