CSX · Industrials
What a holder would want to know before buying CSX: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 40% above the lowest point of the past year and 11% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 73% of days and more expensive on 27%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 97% of days.
6% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more 4 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 41%; the longest took 23 months to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.
Now 11% below the Jul 2026 peak.
CSX Corporation · Industrials · Railroads · a large company worth $87.55B
CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based freight transportation services in the United States and Canada. It operates through two segments: rail and trucking. The company offers rail…
revenue profit
Sales of $14.09B in 2025, with $2.89B of profit. Sales grew in 0 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 22 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Would need about 10 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.
You pay $27 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $21 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 1.18% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Aug 31.
25 analysts: 17 say buy, 6 hold, 2 sell. Their average 12-month target is $52.80 (range $32.00–$60.00).
Insiders made 0 purchases and 4 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.
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