Railroads industry stocks

The Railroads industry has 11 US-listed companies on stockrow and is part of the Industrials sector, with a combined market value of $463.6B. Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) is the largest at $171.5B, followed by CSX Corporation and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited. The median Railroads stock trades at 27.9× trailing earnings, above the market median of 18.1×, with a median net margin of 10.6% (market: 0.45%). Median revenue growth over the last twelve months is 2.97%. 7 of the 11 pay a dividend; the median yield among payers is 1.65%.

Railroads medians

Metric Industry Market
P/E 27.9× 18.1×
P/S 2.5× 1.9×
P/B 4.3× 1.7×
Price to free cash flow 27.3× 14.2×
EV/EBITDA 13.4× 11.0×
EV/Sales 4.5× 2.1×
Earnings yield 3.55% 1.20%
Free cash flow yield 3.28% 0.27%
Gross margin 30.6% 46.2%
Operating margin 24.3% 0.00%
Net margin 10.6% 0.45%
Free cash flow margin 8.43% 0.00%
Return on equity 11.5% 1.35%
Return on assets 3.98% 0.00%
Return on invested capital 7.59% 0.00%
Revenue growth (TTM) 2.97% 7.41%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) 13.1% 13.7%
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 5.27% 8.93%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 0.88% 0.00%
Debt to equity 0.6× 0.1×
Current ratio 1.0× 1.6×
Net debt to EBITDA 2.7× 0.6×
Dividend yield 1.65% 2.26%
Payout ratio 0.3× 0.3×
Market cap $2.0B $584.7M

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Ticker Company Market cap Price 1D P/E Net margin Revenue growth Dividend yield
UNP Union Pacific Corporation 171.52b 289.04 0.11% 23.37 28.85% 4.17% 1.92%
CSX CSX Corporation 90.20b 48.68 (0.02%) 28.14 22.21% 2.52% 1.13%
CP Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited 76.40b 87.11 0.23% 27.92 24.99% 4.57% 0.82%
NSC Norfolk Southern Corporation 72.96b 326.92 0.64% 27.89 21.00% 2.97% 1.65%
WAB Wabtec 48.61b 286.82 (0.33%) 38.50 10.59% 13.43% 0.41%
TRN Trinity Industries, Inc. 2.03b 25.27 (0.79%) 5.95 16.62% (18.95%) 4.91%
GBX Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (The) 1.21b 39.18 (0.23%) 11.32 4.07% (25.59%) 3.37%
FSTR L.B. Foster Company 360.83m 34.43 0.38% 31.02 2.04% 10.13% —
RAIL Freightcar America, Inc. 201.01m 5.92 (3.43%) 0.00 (2.69%) (0.50%) —
SWVL Swvl Holdings Corp. 77.13m 3.77 (2.33%) 0.00 0.00% — —
RVSN Rail Vision Ltd. 6.42m 2.97 1.37% 0.00 0.00% — —

Updated 17 October 2026