Southern Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:SO)

Southern trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SO."

Southern declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 21st. Shareholders of record on Monday, November 18th will be paid a dividend of $0.62 per share on Friday, December 6th. This represents a $2.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.00%. View Southern's Dividend History.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The utilities provider reported $0.80 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.72 by $0.08. The utilities provider had revenue of $5.10 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.12 billion. Southern had a net margin of 20.18% and a return on equity of 10.04%. Southern's revenue was down 9.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.80 earnings per share. View Southern's Earnings History.

Southern is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 30th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Southern.

Southern will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Southern issued an update on its third quarter earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 31st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.10 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.19.

11 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Southern's shares. Their predictions range from $44.00 to $64.00. On average, they anticipate Southern's stock price to reach $55.11 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for Southern.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southern in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Southern.

Headlines about SO stock have been trending neutral recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Southern earned a daily sentiment score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Southern.

Some companies that are related to Southern include NextEra Energy (NEE), Duke Energy (DUK), American Electric Power (AEP), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), PPL (PPL), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), Portland General Electric (POR), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE) and ALLETE (ALE).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Southern investors own include AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), General Electric (GE), Duke Energy (DUK), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Pfizer (PFE), AbbVie (ABBV), Altria Group (MO), Exxon Mobil (XOM) and The Coca-Cola (KO).

Southern's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.22%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.19%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.11%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.08%), State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D (0.08%) and Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.07%). Company insiders that own Southern stock include Ann P Daiss, Anthony F Earley Jr, Anthony L Wilson, Art P Beattie, Christopher C Womack, Henry A Clark III, James Y Kerr II, Kimberly S Greene, Mark A Crosswhite, Mark Lantrip, Stephen E Kuczynski and William P Bowers. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Southern.

SO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Thomasville National Bank, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd, Beacon Financial Group, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Stephens Inc. AR and Global Trust Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Southern company stock in the last year include Ann P Daiss, Anthony L Wilson, Christopher C Womack, James Y Kerr II, Kimberly S Greene, Mark A Crosswhite, Mark Lantrip, Stephen E Kuczynski and William P Bowers. View Insider Buying and Selling for Southern.

SO stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, 6 Meridian, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., CWM LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Northpointe Capital LLC and Rhumbline Advisers. Company insiders that have bought Southern stock in the last two years include Anthony F Earley Jr and Henry A Clark III. View Insider Buying and Selling for Southern.

Shares of SO can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $61.95.

Southern has a market capitalization of $64.45 billion and generates $23.50 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $2.24 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.07 on an earnings per share basis. Southern employs 29,192 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Southern.

The official website for Southern is http://www.southerncompany.com/.

Southern's mailing address is 30 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard N.W., Atlanta GA, 30308. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 404-506-5000 or via email at [email protected]