Revenue ton miles is the most critical key performance indicator for railroads. Revenue is generated when the system moves tonnage. Railroads experience strong gross margins and rarely take financial losses. Determining growth rates and setting discount rates is easier in this industry than in others. Thus, value is driven more by the income statement than the balance sheet.
Sold Norfolk Southern Railroad – 31.64% Annual Return Today, March 4, 2024, just after 2 PM, Norfolk Southern Railway’s stock surpassed $260 per share. The Value Investment Fund proceeded to sell the stock and net $259 per share after paying a $1 per share transaction fee. The fund is proceeding to sell several of its […]
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Buy Norfolk Southern Corporation (Railroad) Today, September 28, 2023, this site’s Value Investment Fund purchased another 200 shares of Norfolk Southern Corporation (Railroad) utilizing its margin account to fund the transaction. The price per share at closing was $197.38. The Fund paid $197.52 per share. Total costs to purchase the 200 shares are as follows:
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Union Pacific (UP), a Utah corporation is the largest of the six publicly traded Class I Railways operating in North America.
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The Value Investment Fund purchased 100 shares of Norfolk Southern Corporation at $199 per share.
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This morning, 09/29/22 at 10:37 AM, the Value Investment Fund sold 200 PUTs on Norfolk Southern Railroad at $6.20 netting $5.20 each after transaction fees.
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In 2021, Union Pacific had sales of $21.8 Billion, the 2nd highest ever recorded. Union Pacific generated a pretax profit of $8.5 Billion, the highest in its entire history.
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Within the railways pool of investments for the Club’s Value Investment Fund, Norfolk Southern Railroad is considered one of the better investments of the six existing railroads in the pool (soon to be five with the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern).
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Dividends and earnings analysis is one of the core requirements of calculating intrinsic value via security analysis. There is a relationship between dividends and earnings; one is a function of the balance sheet.
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Union Pacific is a high quality stock. Over the last twenty years, this company has never failed to earn a profit.
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In keeping with the value investment fund’s pattern, on Friday the 29th of January, 2021 the Fund sold 113.6363 PUTs on Union Pacific Railroad.
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