Norfolk Southern (Norfolk Southern) Operating Income : $4,074 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)

Norfolk Southern Operating Income Chart

Norfolk Southern Annual Data
	Trend	Dec14	Dec15	Dec16	Dec17	Dec18	Dec19	Dec20	Dec21	Dec22	Dec23
Operating Income		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					4,245.00	3,657.00	4,714.00	5,002.00	4,274.00

Norfolk Southern Quarterly Data
	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23	Mar24
Operating Income	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															1,152.00	1,052.00	976.00	1,094.00	952.00

Norfolk Southern Operating Income Calculation

Operating Income, is the profit a company earned through operations. All expenses, including cash expenses such as cost of goods sold (COGS), research & development, wages, and non-cash expenses, such as depreciation, depletion and amortization, have been deducted from the sales.

Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $4,074 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Norfolk Southern  (NYSE:NSC) Operating Income Explanation

1. Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition.

Norfolk Southern's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

where

Note: The Operating Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2024) data.

2. Joel Greenblatt's definition of Return on Capital:

Norfolk Southern's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

where Working Capital is:

When net working capital is negative, 0 is used.

Note: The EBIT data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2024) EBIT data.

3. Operating Income is also linked to Operating Margin %:

Norfolk Southern's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Be Aware

Compared with a company's EBITDA margin, Operating Margin can be manipulated by adjusting the rate of depreciation, depletion and amortization (DDA).

If a company is facing competition, its Operating Margin may decline. Often the Operating Margin declines well before the company's revenue or even profit decline. Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important indicator of whether the company is facing problems.

For instance, by 2012, Nokia (NOK)'s problems were well known and its stock had lost more than 90% of its market value since 2007. But Nokia's Operating Margin had already been in decline since 2002, although its earnings per share were still rising. Investors who paid attention to Operating Margin would have avoided this huge loss. The same can be said for Research-in-Motion (RIMM).

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