CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based freight transportation services. 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.

CSX Corporation

Investors in CSX Corp (Symbol: CSX) saw new options become available today, for the February 2026 expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the CSX options chain for the new February 2026 contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest.
The put contract at the $36.00 strike price has a current bid of 50 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $36.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $35.50 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of CSX, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $36.41/share today.
Because the $36.00 strike represents an approximate 1% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 57%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 1.39% return on the cash commitment, or 11.52% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost.
Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for CSX Corp, and highlighting in green where the $36.00 strike is located relative to that history:
Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $37.00 strike price has a current bid of 50 cents. If an investor was to purchase shares of CSX stock at the current price level of $36.41/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $37.00. Considering the call seller will also collect the premium, that would drive a total return (excluding dividends, if any) of 2.99% if the stock gets called away at the February 2026 expiration (before broker commissions). Of course, a lot of upside could potentially be left on the table if CSX shares really soar, which is why looking at the trailing twelve month trading history for CSX Corp, as well as studying the business fundamentals becomes important. Below is a chart showing CSX's trailing twelve month trading history, with the $37.00 strike highlighted in red:
Considering the fact that the $37.00 strike represents an approximate 2% premium to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the covered call contract would expire worthless, in which case the investor would keep both their shares of stock and the premium collected. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 51%. On our website under the contract detail page for this contract, Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change and publish a chart of those numbers (the trading history of the option contract will also be charted). Should the covered call contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 1.37% boost of extra return to the investor, or 11.39% annualized, which we refer to as the YieldBoost.
The implied volatility in the put contract example, as well as the call contract example, are both approximately 41%.
Meanwhile, we calculate the actual trailing twelve month volatility (considering the last 250 trading day closing values as well as today's price of $36.41) to be 23%. For more put and call options contract ideas worth looking at, visit StockOptionsChannel.com.
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CSX February 2026 Options Begin Trading

Investors in CSX Corp (Symbol: CSX) saw new options begin trading this week, for the August 2026 expiration. One of the key inputs that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 242 days until expiration the newly trading contracts represent a potential opportunity for sellers of puts or calls to achieve a higher premium than would be available for the contracts with a closer expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the CSX options chain for the new August 2026 contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest.
The put contract at the $35.00 strike price has a current bid of $1.70. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $35.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $33.30 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of CSX, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $36.23/share today.
Because the $35.00 strike represents an approximate 3% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 66%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 4.86% return on the cash commitment, or 7.33% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost.
Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for CSX Corp, and highlighting in green where the $35.00 strike is located relative to that history:
Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $37.50 strike price has a current bid of $2.60. If an investor was to purchase shares of CSX stock at the current price level of $36.23/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $37.50. Considering the call seller will also collect the premium, that would drive a total return (excluding dividends, if any) of 10.68% if the stock gets called away at the August 2026 expiration (before broker commissions). Of course, a lot of upside could potentially be left on the table if CSX shares really soar, which is why looking at the trailing twelve month trading history for CSX Corp, as well as studying the business fundamentals becomes important. Below is a chart showing CSX's trailing twelve month trading history, with the $37.50 strike highlighted in red:
Considering the fact that the $37.50 strike represents an approximate 4% premium to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the covered call contract would expire worthless, in which case the investor would keep both their shares of stock and the premium collected. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 48%. On our website under the contract detail page for this contract, Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change and publish a chart of those numbers (the trading history of the option contract will also be charted). Should the covered call contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 7.18% boost of extra return to the investor, or 10.83% annualized, which we refer to as the YieldBoost.
The implied volatility in the put contract example, as well as the call contract example, are both approximately 24%.
Meanwhile, we calculate the actual trailing twelve month volatility (considering the last 249 trading day closing values as well as today's price of $36.23) to be 23%. For more put and call options contract ideas worth looking at, visit StockOptionsChannel.com.
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First Week of CSX August 2026 Options Trading

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 11/28/25, CSX Corp (Symbol: CSX), Tennant Co. (Symbol: TNC), and MillerKnoll Inc (Symbol: MLKN) will all trade ex-dividend for their respective upcoming dividends. CSX Corp will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.13 on 12/15/25, Tennant Co. will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.31 on 12/15/25, and MillerKnoll Inc will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.1875 on 1/15/26. As a percentage of CSX's recent stock price of $34.90, this dividend works out to approximately 0.37%, so look for shares of CSX Corp to trade 0.37% lower — all else being equal — when CSX shares open for trading on 11/28/25. Similarly, investors should look for TNC to open 0.42% lower in price and for MLKN to open 1.18% lower, all else being equal.
Below are dividend history charts for CSX, TNC, and MLKN, showing historical dividends prior to the most recent ones declared.
CSX Corp (Symbol: CSX):
Tennant Co. (Symbol: TNC):
MillerKnoll Inc (Symbol: MLKN):
In general, dividends are not always predictable, following the ups and downs of company profits over time. Therefore, a good first due diligence step in forming an expectation of annual yield going forward, is looking at the history above, for a sense of stability over time. This can help in judging whether the most recent dividends from these companies are likely to continue. If they do continue, the current estimated yields on annualized basis would be 1.49% for CSX Corp, 1.68% for Tennant Co., and 4.72% for MillerKnoll Inc.
In Wednesday trading, CSX Corp shares are currently up about 1.5%, Tennant Co. shares are up about 4.1%, and MillerKnoll Inc shares are up about 3.7% on the day.
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Ex-Dividend Reminder: CSX, Tennant and MillerKnoll

Investors in CSX Corp (Symbol: CSX) saw new options begin trading today, for the January 2026 expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the CSX options chain for the new January 2026 contracts and identified the following put contract of particular interest.
The put contract at the $35.00 strike price has a current bid of 50 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $35.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $34.50 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of CSX, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $35.30/share today.
Because the $35.00 strike represents an approximate 1% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 55%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 1.43% return on the cash commitment, or 11.85% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost.
Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for CSX Corp, and highlighting in green where the $35.00 strike is located relative to that history:
The implied volatility in the put contract example above is 39%.
Meanwhile, we calculate the actual trailing twelve month volatility (considering the last 250 trading day closing values as well as today's price of $35.30) to be 24%. For more put and call options contract ideas worth looking at, visit StockOptionsChannel.com.
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CSX January 2026 Options Begin Trading

The Zacks Transportation - Rail industry faces challenges, ranging from tariff-induced economic uncertainties, inflationary pressures and resultant high interest rates to concerns pertaining to supply-chain disruptions.
Despite the challenges surrounding the industry, Union Pacific Corporation UNP and CSX Corporation CSX appear better placed to tide over the challenges. Declining fuel costs represent a tailwind as far as bottom-line growth is concerned.
Industry Description
The Zacks Transportation - Rail industry includes railroad operators transporting freight (such as agricultural products, industrial products, coal, intermodal, automotive, consumer products, metals and minerals), primarily across North America. These companies focus on providing logistics and supply-chain expertise services. While freight constitutes a significant chunk of revenues, some of these companies also derive a small portion of their top line from other rail-related services, including third-party railcar and locomotive repairs, routine land sales and container sales, among others. A few companies offer service to multiple production and distribution facilities. Besides locomotives, some of these companies own equipment of leased locomotives, railcars, etc.
Factors Deciding the Industry's Outlook
Strong Financial Returns for Shareholders:With economic activities gaining pace from the pandemic lows, more and more companies are allocating their increasing cash pile through dividends and buybacks to pacify long-suffering shareholders. This underlines their financial strength and confidence in the business. Among the Transportation – Railroad industry players, CSX announced an 8.3% increase in the quarterly dividend in February 2025, and Union Pacific approved a dividend hike of 3%, thereby raising its quarterly cash dividend to $1.38 per share ($5.52 annualized) from $1.34 ($5.36 annualized) in July 2025.
Decline in Oil Price is a Tailwind: The decline in expenses on fuel represents another tailwind for the industry. Notably, oil prices declined almost 20% from the beginning of 2025 to date. As fuel expenses represent a key input cost for any transportation player, a fall in oil prices bodes well for the bottom-line growth of railroad stocks.
Economic Uncertainty Continues With Tariff Turmoil: The current administration is focused on protectionism that restricts international trade to help domestic industries. The U.S. administration’s tariff policies are reshaping the transportation service industry by increasing costs, disrupting supply chains and influencing consumer behavior. The tariff turmoil is hurting global trade. Tariff-induced economic uncertainties and trade tensions may create uncertainty for investors interested in the industry.
Zacks Industry Rank Indicates Gloomy Prospects
The Zacks Transportation Railroad industry, housed within the broader Zacks Transportation sector, currently carries a Zacks Industry Rank #211. This rank places it in the bottom 13% of more than 250 Zacks industries.
The group’s Zacks Industry Rank, which is basically the average of the Zacks Rank of all the member stocks, indicates dull near-term prospects. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperforms the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.
The sell-side analysts covering the companies in this industry have been decreasing their estimates. Over the past year, the industry’s consensus earnings estimate for the current year has decreased 7.9%.
Before we present a few stocks that investors can retain, given their growth prospects, let’s take a look at the industry’s recent stock market performance and current valuation.
Industry Lags S&P 500, Outperforms Sector
The Zacks Transportation - Rail industry has underperformed the Zacks S&P 500 Composite index while outperformed the broader sector over the past year.
Over this period, the industry has declined 8.3% against the S&P 500 Index’s northward movement of 12.9%. The broader sector has declined 15.5%.
One-Year Price Performance
Industry's Current Valuation
Based on the trailing 12-month price-to-book (P/B), a commonly used multiple for valuing railroad stocks, the industry is currently trading at 5.82X compared with the S&P 500’s 8.19X. It is above the sector’s P/B ratio of 3.12X.
Over the past five years, the industry has traded as high as 10.92X, as low as 5.28X and at the median of 7.07X.
2 Stocks to Keep an Eye On
We are presenting two Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stocks that are well-positioned to grow in the near term. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
Union Pacific: Headquartered in Omaha, NE, Union Pacific, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, operates in the railroad business in the United States.
Relatively stable ecommerce demand, cost-cutting efforts to boost the bottom line and consistent initiatives to reward its shareholders through dividend payments and share repurchases bode well for UNP’s prospects. Further, UNP has a stellar track record with respect to earnings surprises. The company surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in three of the past four quarters (missed the mark in the remaining quarter), with an average beat of 2.86%.
Price and Consensus: UNP
CSX: Based in Jacksonville, FL, CSX offers rail-based freight transportation services like traditional rail service, transport of intermodal containers and trailers apart from rail-to-truck transfers.
For 2025, CSX still expects total volume growth. The company will continue to focus on operational excellence, labor productivity and efficiency initiatives. Capital expenditures are expected to be $2.5 billion this year, excluding hurricane rebuild spending. The company's focus on improving workplace safety for employees is commendable. CSX’s strong balance sheet enables the company to reward shareholders with dividends and share repurchases.
CSX has surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in two of the past four quarters.
Price and Consensus: CSX
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Below is Validea's guru fundamental report for CSX CORP (CSX). Of the 22 guru strategies we follow, CSX rates highest using our Multi-Factor Investor model based on the published strategy of Pim van Vliet. This multi-factor model seeks low volatility stocks that also have strong momentum and high net payout yields.
CSX CORP (CSX) is a large-cap growth stock in the Railroads industry. The rating using this strategy is 87% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.
The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.
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Guru Fundamental Report for CSX

Investors in CSX Corp (Symbol: CSX) saw new options become available today, for the January 2026 expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the CSX options chain for the new January 2026 contracts and identified the following put contract of particular interest.
The put contract at the $35.00 strike price has a current bid of 30 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $35.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $34.70 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of CSX, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $35.28/share today.
Because the $35.00 strike represents an approximate 1% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 56%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 0.86% return on the cash commitment, or 6.26% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost.
Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for CSX Corp, and highlighting in green where the $35.00 strike is located relative to that history:
The implied volatility in the put contract example above is 36%.
Meanwhile, we calculate the actual trailing twelve month volatility (considering the last 250 trading day closing values as well as today's price of $35.28) to be 24%. For more put and call options contract ideas worth looking at, visit StockOptionsChannel.com.
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Interesting CSX Put Options For January 2026

Looking at the underlying holdings of the ETFs in our coverage universe at ETF Channel, we have compared the trading price of each holding against the average analyst 12-month forward target price, and computed the weighted average implied analyst target price for the ETF itself. For the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (Symbol: ESGU), we found that the implied analyst target price for the ETF based upon its underlying holdings is $165.32 per unit.
With ESGU trading at a recent price near $150.36 per unit, that means that analysts see 9.95% upside for this ETF looking through to the average analyst targets of the underlying holdings. Three of ESGU's underlying holdings with notable upside to their analyst target prices are Horton Inc (Symbol: DHI), Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc (Symbol: ZBH), and CSX Corp (Symbol: CSX). Although DHI has traded at a recent price of $148.29/share, the average analyst target is 11.76% higher at $165.73/share. Similarly, ZBH has 11.06% upside from the recent share price of $99.71 if the average analyst target price of $110.74/share is reached, and analysts on average are expecting CSX to reach a target price of $38.96/share, which is 10.36% above the recent price of $35.30. Below is a twelve month price history chart comparing the stock performance of DHI, ZBH, and CSX:
Below is a summary table of the current analyst target prices discussed above:
Name
Symbol
Recent Price
Avg. Analyst 12-Mo. Target
% Upside to Target
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF
ESGU
$150.36
$165.32
9.95%
Horton Inc
DHI
$148.29
$165.73
11.76%
Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc
ZBH
$99.71
$110.74
11.06%
CSX Corp
CSX
$35.30
$38.96
10.36%
Are analysts justified in these targets, or overly optimistic about where these stocks will be trading 12 months from now? Do the analysts have a valid justification for their targets, or are they behind the curve on recent company and industry developments? A high price target relative to a stock's trading price can reflect optimism about the future, but can also be a precursor to target price downgrades if the targets were a relic of the past. These are questions that require further investor research.
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