Growth Metrics

Norfolk Southern (NSC) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Norfolk Southern (NSC) has disclosed Tax Rate for 17 consecutive years, with 15.82% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Tax Rate fell 520.0% to 15.82% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 21.61%, a 37.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 21.61%, up 37.0% from a year prior.
  • Tax Rate was 15.82% for Q4 2025 at Norfolk Southern, down from 23.05% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 24.66% in Q2 2022 to a low of 76.67% in Q1 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 16.7% and a median of 22.56% in 2021 define the central range for Tax Rate.
  • Peak YoY movement for Tax Rate: crashed -9795bps in 2024, then skyrocketed 9998bps in 2025.
  • Norfolk Southern's Tax Rate stood at 22.84% in 2021, then increased by 5bps to 23.89% in 2022, then dropped by -20bps to 19.05% in 2023, then rose by 10bps to 21.01% in 2024, then fell by -25bps to 15.82% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for NSC's Tax Rate are 15.82% (Q4 2025), 23.05% (Q3 2025), and 23.05% (Q2 2025).