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.

Data as of (updated daily)

Top 20 Railroads stocks by composite score

#TickerNameComposite
1603111.SHGNanjing Kangni Mechanical & Electrical Co Ltd71.1
2000920.SHEVontron Technology Co Ltd70.6
3603680.SHGKTK Group Co Ltd70.2
4600125.SHGChina Railway Tielong Container Logistics Co Ltd66.4
5002357.SHESichuan Fulin Transportation Group Co Ltd66.3
60077.HKAMS Public Transport Holdings Ltd65.8
7064350.KOHyundai Rotem Co65.5
8NWG.WARNewag S.A.65.5
9601333.SHGGuangshen Railway Co Ltd65.2
10601766.SHGCRRC Corp Ltd Class A64.7
11002296.SHEHeNan Splendor Science & Technology Co Ltd64.7
121786.HKCRCC High-Tech Equip Corp64.4
13603500.SHGZhejiang Tiantai Xianghe Industrial Co Ltd64.2
14SAFE.JKSteady Safe TBK PT63.6
15601816.SHGBeijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway Co Ltd62.7
16688187.SHGZhuzhou CRRC Times Electric Co Ltd62.7
17688569.SHGBeijing Tieke Shougang Railway Tech Co Ltd62.3
181596.HKHebei Yichen Industrial Group Corp Ltd61.8
19000421.SHENanjing Zhongbei Group Co Ltd61.6
200306.HKKwoon Chung Bus Holdings Limited61.5

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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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