Best Railroads Stocks for 2026

Class I North American railroads and their international peers earn quasi-monopoly returns on irreplaceable network assets; operating-ratio improvement anchors Quality.

Railroads (the Class I North American operators and their international peers) earn quasi-monopoly returns on irreplaceable network assets. Composite scoring weights the Quality pillar (operating ratio improvement and ROIC) and the Valuation pillar (EV/EBITDA against mid-cycle volume); the Health pillar checks capex coverage on the heavy maintenance cycle.

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Top 20 Railroads stocks by composite score

#TickerNameComposite
1603680.SHGKTK Group Co Ltd73.6
2064350.KOHyundai Rotem Co69.5
30306.HKKwoon Chung Bus Holdings Limited67.6
41596.HKHebei Yichen Industrial Group Corp Ltd67.4
50077.HKAMS Public Transport Holdings Ltd67.3
6603111.SHGNanjing Kangni Mechanical & Electrical Co Ltd67.0
7600125.SHGChina Railway Tielong Container Logistics Co Ltd66.5
8000920.SHEVontron Technology Co Ltd66.5
9601766.SHGCRRC Corp Ltd Class A66.1
10601333.SHGGuangshen Railway Co Ltd65.9
11NWG.WARNewag S.A.65.8
12002296.SHEHeNan Splendor Science & Technology Co Ltd65.2
13000421.SHENanjing Zhongbei Group Co Ltd65.0
14000557.SHENingxia Western Venture Industrial Co Ltd64.9
151786.HKCRCC High-Tech Equip Corp64.7
16002357.SHESichuan Fulin Transportation Group Co Ltd64.4
17601816.SHGBeijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway Co Ltd62.9
18SAFE.JKSteady Safe TBK PT62.5
19688187.SHGZhuzhou CRRC Times Electric Co Ltd62.4
20KLS.AUKelsian Group Ltd62.0

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Methodology: How we score stocks. Data refreshed nightly around 03:30 ET. This page lists the top 20 by composite score; use the screener for the full ranked list.

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