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CSX CORPORATION

At today's price, CSX CORPORATION (CSX) is priced for +12.1% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.

Live priced in
+12.1% growth
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within-range

Key Takeaways

At $47.61 (as of June 27, 2026) the price pays about 21x company-wide operating income, which implies roughly 10% annual operating-profit growth for five years. That rate is within what CSX has delivered; the stretch is duration, not pace. The valuation X-ray is uniformly rich: no model family reaches the price. Asset, earnings-power, peer-multiple, and even forward-growth methods all land below $47.61, so the price embeds something the standard frames cannot, most plausibly a consolidation pre

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Institutional ownership

1,820 institutional managers reported holding CSX in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 74% of the company; the top 10 hold 37%. 170 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 40.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (3.6 days of typical volume to cover).

Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.

Capital returns

CSX has cut its share count 18.1% over the past five years, spending $13.70B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 16 years running, raised 15 years straight; the current rate is $0.52 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $2.60B in dividends and $5.41B in repurchases.

Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.

Insider activity

Open-market insider buys at CSX over the trailing three years: 2025: 1 buy totaling $2.03M; 2026: 1 buy totaling $1.01M. 24 officers and directors are on file.

Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.

Earnings reactions

CSX's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.

reportday onenext quarter
2023-04-21+4.1%+2.9%
2023-07-21-4.0%-3.9%
2023-10-21+0.3%+12.6%
2024-04-19-1.3%-2.7%

Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.

Recent filings

CSX's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-14 (items 5.02, 5.07, 8.01); 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-22 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-10-29 (items 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2025-10-23 (items 2.03, 8.01, 9.01).

Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.

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Last analyzed: July 3, 2026

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