Norfolk Southern Corporation Dividends
The next dividend date for Norfolk Southern Corporation has not yet been scheduled.
What is a Dividend Date
When we talk about a dividend date, we’re referring specifically to the ex-dividend date.
This is the date on which all stockholders will earn a dividend. Technically, a person needs to be the owner of a share of stock as of the night before the ex-dividend date in order to earn the dividend.
The ex-dividend date is different than the date when the dividend is issued. Although you earn a dividend on the ex-dividend date, that dividend is typically not disbursed to your account until several weeks later.
Most brokerages will automatically credit the dividend to your account once it’s issued.
Historical Dividends for Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC)
| 05/08/2026 | 04/23/2026 | 05/08/2026 | 05/20/2026 | $1.35 |
| 02/06/2026 | 01/27/2026 | 02/06/2026 | 02/20/2026 | $1.35 |
| 11/07/2025 | 10/22/2025 | 11/07/2025 | 11/20/2025 | $1.35 |
| 08/01/2025 | 07/21/2025 | 08/01/2025 | 08/20/2025 | $1.35 |
| 05/02/2025 | 04/22/2025 | 05/02/2025 | 05/20/2025 | $1.35 |
| 02/07/2025 | 01/28/2025 | 02/07/2025 | 02/20/2025 | $1.35 |
| 11/01/2024 | 10/18/2024 | 11/01/2024 | 11/20/2024 | $1.35 |
| 08/02/2024 | 07/23/2024 | 08/02/2024 | 08/20/2024 | $1.35 |
| 05/02/2024 | 04/23/2024 | 05/03/2024 | 05/20/2024 | $1.35 |
| 02/01/2024 | 01/24/2024 | 02/02/2024 | 02/20/2024 | $1.35 |
More About Norfolk Southern Corporation
Norfolk Southern Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the United States. The company transports agriculture, forest, and consumer products comprising soybeans, wheat, corn, fertilizers, livestock and poultry feed, food products, food oils, flour, sweeteners, ethanol, lumber and wood products, pulp board and paper products, wood fibers, wood pulp, beverages, and canned goods; chemicals, including sulfur and related chemicals, petroleum products comprising crude oil, chlorine and bleaching compounds, plastics, rubber, industrial chemicals, chemical wastes, sand, and natural gas liquids; metals and construction materials, such as steel, aluminum products, machinery, scrap metals, cement, aggregates, minerals, clay, transportation equipment, and military-related products; and automotive, including finished motor vehicles and automotive parts, as well as coal. It also transports overseas freight through various Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports; and operates an intermodal network. Norfolk Southern Corporation was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Owning Norfolk Southern Corporation Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Norfolk Southern Corporation stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Norfolk Southern Corporation stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Norfolk Southern Corporation stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Norfolk Southern Corporation stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Norfolk Southern Corporation dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Norfolk Southern Corporation Options on the Dividend Date
Unlike the stock price, which will normally have an abrupt decrease by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, option prices typically do not reflect the same phenomenon.
The reason is that in the time leading up to the ex-dividend date, that projected drop in Norfolk Southern Corporation stock price from the dividend is already baked into Norfolk Southern Corporation option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Norfolk Southern Corporation ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Norfolk Southern Corporation ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Norfolk Southern Corporation call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Norfolk Southern Corporation put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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