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Peer membership was fetched 2026-10-12.

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What the leading companies do

The first 5 companies below lead the ratings in this snapshot; equal ratings are ordered by ticker. Their company profiles describe different businesses even when they share the Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC) selection.

These are company descriptions, not estimates of revenue from this theme. Industry membership does not identify a pure-play business or establish how much sales depend on it. Open the company profile and examine segment disclosures before treating an overlapping classification as equivalent exposure.

1. Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (CP): 3.5 / 5

   Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates a transcontinental freight railway in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The transports bulk commodities, including grain, coal, potash, fertilizers, and sulphur; merchandise freight, such as forest products, energy, chemicals and plastics, metals, minerals, consumer products, and automotive; and intermodal traffic comprising retail goods in overseas containers. It also provides rail and intermodal transportation services over a network of approximately 20,000 miles serving business centers. The company was formerly known as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited and changed its name to Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited in April 2023. Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited was incorporated in 1881 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

2. Union Pacific Corp. (UNP): 3.5 / 5

   Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, operates in the railroad business in the United States. It offers transportation services for grain and grain products, fertilizers, food and refrigerated products, and coal and renewables to grain processors, animal feeders, and ethanol and renewable biofuel producers; and construction products, industrial chemicals, plastics, forest products, specialized products, metals and ores, petroleum, liquid petroleum gases, soda ash, and sand, as well as finished automobiles, automotive parts, and merchandise in intermodal containers. The company was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

3. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. Limited Partnership Units (BIP): 3 / 5

   Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. engages in the utilities, transport, midstream, and data businesses. The Utilities segment operates approximately 2,900 kilometers (km) of electricity transmission lines; 3,900 km of natural gas pipelines; 8.4 million electricity and natural gas connections; 0.7 million long-term contracted sub-metering services; and 2.8 million meters under management. This segment also offers cooling, water heaters, solar, and energy storage solutions; gas distribution; heating, ventilation, air conditioner, and water products, including heating and purification, as well as other home services. The Transport segment consists of infrastructure assets that offers transportation, storage, and handling services for merchandise goods, commodities, and passengers through a network of approximately 21,000 km of track; 5,500 km of track; 9,800 km of rail; 3,300 km of motorways. The Midstream segment provides natural gas transmission, gathering and processing, and storage services through approximately 15,000 km of natural gas transmission pipelines; 570 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage; 16 natural gas and natural gas liquids processing plants; and 10,600 km of gas gathering pipelines, as well as 525,000 tonnes of polypropylene production capacity. The Data segment offers telecommunication, fiber, and data storage services through approximately 3,06,000 operational telecom towers; 28,000 km of fiber optic cables; 3,60,000 fiber-to-the-premise connections; two semiconductor manufacturing foundries; and 70 distributed antenna systems, as well as 140 data centers and 1 gigawatt of critical load capacity and an additional approximate 640 megawatts of contracted capacity. It operates in the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Colombia, France, Australia, Germany, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

4. CSX Corporation (CSX): 3 / 5

   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 services; and transportation of intermodal containers and trailers, as well as other transportation services, such as rail-to-truck transfers and bulk commodity operations. It also transports chemicals, agricultural and food products, minerals, automotive, forest products, fertilizers, and metals and equipment; and coal, coke, and iron ore to electricity-generating power plants, steel manufacturers, and industrial plants, as well as exports coal to deep-water port facilities. In addition, the company provides intermodal services through a network of approximately 30 terminals transporting manufactured consumer goods in containers; and drayage services, including the pickup and delivery of intermodal shipments. It serves the automotive industry with distribution centers and storage locations, as well as connects non-rail served customers through transferring products, such as plastics and ethanol from rail to trucks. The company operates approximately 20,000 route mile rail network, which serves various population centers in 26 states east of the Mississippi River, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as owns and leases approximately 3,500 locomotives. It serves production and distribution facilities through track connections. CSX Corporation was incorporated in 1978 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

5. FTAI Infrastructure Inc. Common Stock (FIP): 1.5 / 5

   FTAI Infrastructure Inc. engages in the acquiring, developing, and operating assets and businesses that represent infrastructure for customers in the transportation, energy, and industrial products industries in North America. It operates through five segments: Railroad, Jefferson Terminal, Repauno, Power and Gas, and Sustainability and Energy Transition. The company operates a multi-modal crude oil and refined products terminal, and other related assets. It also has a 1,630-acre deep-water port located along the Delaware River with an underground storage cavern, a multipurpose dock, a rail-to-ship transloading system, and multiple industrial development opportunities; and a 1,660-acre multi-modal port located along the Ohio River with rail, dock, and multiple industrial development opportunities, including a power plant. In addition, the company operates six freight railroads and one switching facility. Further, it focuses on waste plastic to renewable fuel, lithium-ion battery recycling, hydrogen-fueled power generation, and carbon capture businesses. FTAI Infrastructure Inc. was incorporated in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Valuation and company size within this selection

These summaries use the 5 displayed companies. Each company retains its own market observation date in the ratings table above. Medians are unweighted; they are not a sector index valuation.

Positive P/E and price-to-book values are summarized separately. Missing, zero and negative values are excluded from those medians, with the included count shown. A lower multiple alone does not establish better value: profitability, growth, debt and business mix can differ.

Other business classifications in the list

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Dates and coverage

Report dates range from 2025-12-31 to 2025-12-31. Market observations range from 2026-11-06 to 2026-11-06. These dates may differ across companies. Daily closes are not synchronized live quotes.

The selection includes 0 companies without a report, 0 with invalid latest rating metadata, 0 with older reports, 1 with missing required fundamentals and 0 with out-of-date market observations. Missing companies receive no substitute score.

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