Norfolk Southern Corporation

holding company formed in 1982 for Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway
Organization business Q20858163
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 19 annual filings
Revenue
$12.18B
▲ 0.5% YoY FY2025
Net Income
$2.87B
▲ 9.6% YoY FY2025
Assets
$45.24B
▲ 3.6% YoY FY2025
EPS (diluted)
$12.75
▲ 10.2% YoY FY2025
$0.00$3.50B$7.01B$10.51B$14.02B FY2007: $9.43BFY2008: $10.66BFY2009: $7.97BFY2010: $9.52BFY2011: $11.17BFY2012: $11.04BFY2013: $11.24BFY2014: $11.62BFY2015: $10.51BFY2016: $9.89BFY2017: $10.55B · NI $5.40B (51.2% margin)FY2018: $11.46B · NI $2.67B (23.3% margin)FY2019: $11.30B · NI $2.72B (24.1% margin)FY2020: $9.79B · NI $2.01B (20.6% margin)FY2021: $11.14B · NI $3.00B (27.0% margin)FY2022: $12.74B · NI $3.27B (25.7% margin)FY2023: $12.16B · NI $1.83B (15.0% margin)FY2024: $12.12B · NI $2.62B (21.6% margin)FY2025: $12.18B · NI $2.87B (23.6% margin) '07'09'11'13'15'17'19'21'23'25
Revenue Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2025-12-31 · accession 0001628280-26-006268

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Summary

Norfolk Southern Corporation is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Norfolk Southern Corporation is in the country of United States[3].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation is in the country of US[4].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's instance of is recorded as public company[6].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's instance of is recorded as holding company[7].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's headquarters location is recorded as Q49231[8].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's chief executive officer is recorded as Alan H. Shaw[9].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's child organization or unit is recorded as Norfolk Southern Railway[10].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's child organization or unit is recorded as Norfolk Southern Railroad Company[11].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's stock exchange is recorded as New York Stock Exchange[12].
  • 1982 marks the founding of Norfolk Southern Corporation[13].
  • 1980 marks the founding of Norfolk Southern Corporation[14].
  • 1980-07-23 marks the founding of Norfolk Southern Corporation[15].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's official website is recorded as http://www.nscorp.com[16].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's described at URL is recorded as http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/norfolk-southern-corporation-history/[17].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's legal form is recorded as Q130264748[18].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's legal form is recorded as HOV4[19].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's different from is recorded as Norfolk Southern Railway[20].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's total revenue is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+9432000000'}[21].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's total revenue is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+10661000000'}[22].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's total revenue is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+7969000000'}[23].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's total revenue is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+9516000000'}[24].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's total revenue is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+11172000000'}[25].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's total revenue is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+11040000000'}[26].
  • Norfolk Southern Corporation's total revenue is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+11245000000'}[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 54930036C8MWP850MI84[28]

  • Registered legal name: Norfolk Southern Corporation[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-VA[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): HOV4[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[34]

  • Entity created: 1980-07-23[35]

  • LEI first registered: 2018-07-31[36]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-06-12[37]

  • LEI next renewal: 2019-07-30[38]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[39]

  • Registration authority: RA000639[40]

  • Authority entity ID: 02080281[41]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[42]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 1982[13], 1980[14], and 1980-07-23[15].

Leadership

Norfolk Southern Corporation's chief executive officer is recorded as Alan H. Shaw[9].

Operations

Norfolk Southern Corporation's headquarters location is recorded as Q49231[8]. Subsidiaries include Norfolk Southern Railway[10], a public company[43], in United States[44], founded in 1990[45], headquartered in Q49231[46] and Norfolk Southern Railroad Company[11], a business[47], in United States[48], founded in 1846[49], headquartered in Q49231[50].

Ownership

Norfolk Southern Corporation's stock exchange is recorded as New York Stock Exchange[12].

Why It Matters

Norfolk Southern Corporation ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34 views/month).[2]

References

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  19. [21] . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Form 10-K. sec.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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  10. [37] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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