Southern CompanySO
Buy moreBuy more on a dip to our buy price, which is under today's $93.
- 3 good· Earnings beat
- 2 to watch· Lagged the S&P 500
$92.95−0.89 (−0.95%)
Price at 3:01 PM ET
After hours · opens in 17h 23mNext open: Friday, Nov 13, 9:30 AM ETNYSE · Utilities · Large company
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What would change it
Sources
- From the 10-Q for the quarter to Sep 30, reported Nov 5
- Yahoo Finance daily closes to Nov 11
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Shrinking
sales
Compared with the S&P 500
6 points
worse in one day
14 points
worse in five trading days
+5.4% in a yearsince Nov 11, 2025
Latest results
Reported Nov 5 before the open
- EPS
- $1.94
- vs $1.71 expected, beat by 13%
- The stock
- +0.2%
- On Nov 5, usually 1.7%
The news behind our call
written Sep 22, 9:52 AM ETSep 22, 9:52 AM ET · 3 articles · 3 sources
What changed
From Yahoo Finance, Seeking Alpha, Southern Company via Yahoo Finance and 2 more
Nov 16
in 4 days
Next ex-dividend date
$3.04 a share a year at the current rate.
Overview
In plain numbers
- Revenue grew 7.9% from a year earlier, to $31.2B in the last twelve months.
- It burned $3.8B of free cash in the last twelve months.
- It owes $75.5B and holds $1.7B in cash and investments, so net debt is $73.8B.
Key figures
- Revenue (TTM)
- $31.2B
- Revenue growth, 1 year
- +7.9%
- Net income
- $5.0B
- EPS (diluted)
- $4.40
- Return on equity
- 11.9%
- Return on capital
- 4.6%
- Debt / equity
- 1.68
- Current ratio
- 0.84
- Dividend yield
- 3.27%
- Buyback yield
- -2.60%
Key facts
- Company value
- $106B
- Price / last year's earnings
- 24.6×
- Today's range
- 92.7394.17
- Past year's range
- 82.0697.49
- Yesterday's close
- $93.84
- Swings vs the market
- 0.3×smaller
- Dividend yield
- 3.27%$3.04 a year