---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001552781-24-000021"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NSC"
cik: "0000702165"
company_name: "NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP"
filed_at: "2024-01-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T16:53:12.507836+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Norfolk Southern Q4 EPS $2.32 (adj. $2.83); full-year EPS $8.02 down 42%

## Summary
- Q4 revenue $3.1B, down 5% YoY; railway operating income $808M (incl. $150M Ohio incident charge) down 32%.
- Full-year 2023 revenue $12.2B (-5%); adjusted railway operating income $4.0B (-18%); adjusted diluted EPS $11.74 (-15%).
- Eastern Ohio incident total charge $1.1B in 2023, net of $101M insurance recoveries; $150M in Q4.
- Q4 merchandise revenue $1.85B (-1%), intermodal $794M (-13%), coal $430M (-4%).
- Net cash from operations $3.18B vs $4.22B in 2022; capex $2.35B; share repurchases $627M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001552781-24-000021
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NSC
- cik: 0000702165
- company_name: NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP
- filed_at: 2024-01-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/702165/000155278124000021/0001552781-24-000021-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/702165/000155278124000021/e24025_nsc-8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001552781-24-000021.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP reported financial results for fourth quarter 2023.
  - Period: fourth quarter 2023
  - Result: reported results
  source text: Norfolk Southern reports fourth quarter and full-year 2023 results
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/702165/000155278124000021/0001552781-24-000021-index.htm
- Earnings Releases
  NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP reported financial results for full-year 2023.
  - Period: full-year 2023
  - Result: reported results
  source text: Norfolk Southern reports fourth quarter and full-year 2023 results
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/702165/000155278124000021/0001552781-24-000021-index.htm

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