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 $449.4B. Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) is the largest at $162.8B, followed by CSX Corporation and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited. The median Railroads stock trades at 26.9× trailing earnings, above the market median of 17.9×, with a median net margin of 10.6% (market: 0.55%). Median revenue growth over the last twelve months is 2.97%. 7 of the 11 pay a dividend; the median yield among payers is 2.17%.

Railroads medians

Metric Industry Market
P/E 26.9× 17.9×
P/S 2.6× 2.0×
P/B 4.3× 1.8×
Price to free cash flow 26.6× 14.0×
EV/EBITDA 13.5× 11.0×
EV/Sales 4.6× 2.2×
Earnings yield 3.59% 1.18%
Free cash flow yield 3.41% 0.48%
Gross margin 30.6% 46.3%
Operating margin 24.3% 0.00%
Net margin 10.6% 0.55%
Free cash flow margin 8.43% 0.00%
Return on equity 11.5% 1.76%
Return on assets 3.98% 0.00%
Return on invested capital 7.59% 0.00%
Revenue growth (TTM) 2.97% 7.41%
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 5.27% 8.85%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 0.88% 0.00%
Debt to equity 0.6× 0.2×
Current ratio 1.0× 1.6×
Net debt to EBITDA 2.7× 0.6×
Dividend yield 2.17% 2.75%
Payout ratio 0.2× 0.0×
Market cap $2.2B $612.7M

All 11 companies

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Ticker Company Market cap Price 1D P/E Net margin Revenue growth Dividend yield
RVSN Rail Vision Ltd. 7.98m 3.61 (0.82%) 0.00 0.00% — —
SWVL Swvl Holdings Corp. 80.53m 4.09 0.99% 0.00 0.00% — —
RAIL Freightcar America, Inc. 243.31m 7.18 (3.23%) 0.00 (2.69%) (0.50%) —
FSTR L.B. Foster Company 394.70m 37.47 (0.13%) 33.76 2.04% 10.13% —
GBX Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (The) 1.32b 42.54 (0.33%) 12.29 4.07% (25.59%) 2.57%
TRN Trinity Industries, Inc. 2.22b 27.91 0.25% 6.57 16.62% (18.95%) 4.08%
WAB Wabtec 49.02b 288.00 (1.49%) 38.64 10.59% 13.43% 0.50%
NSC Norfolk Southern Corporation 70.34b 313.00 0.03% 26.73 21.00% 2.97% 2.19%
CP Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited 76.76b 86.91 (0.41%) 27.87 24.99% 4.57% 0.68%
CSX CSX Corporation 86.21b 46.78 (0.36%) 27.04 22.21% 2.52% 1.25%
UNP Union Pacific Corporation 162.82b 273.79 (0.10%) 22.13 28.85% 4.17% 2.17%

Updated 26 September 2026