NYSE:SO - Southern Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Southern announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, July 16th. Shareholders of record on Monday, August 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.60 per share on Thursday, September 6th. This represents a $2.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.05%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 17th. View Southern's Dividend History.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The utilities provider reported $0.88 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.84 by $0.04. The utilities provider had revenue of $6.37 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.98 billion. Southern had a net margin of 4.88% and a return on equity of 12.97%. Southern's quarterly revenue was up 10.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.66 earnings per share. View Southern's Earnings History.

Southern is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August, 8th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Southern.

15 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Southern's stock. Their predictions range from $44.00 to $56.00. On average, they anticipate Southern's stock price to reach $48.0385 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for Southern.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southern in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."

Some companies that are related to Southern include NextEra Energy (NEE), Enel S.p.A. ADS Common Stock (ENLAY), Dominion Energy (D), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), Edison International (EIX), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), PPL (PPL), DTE Energy (DTE), Eversource Energy (ES), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY), Korea Electric Power (KEP), FirstEnergy (FE), Avangrid (AGR) and EDP-Energias de Portugal, S.A (EDPFY).

Media stories about SO stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Southern earned a daily sentiment score of 0.24 on Accern's scale. They also gave news coverage about the utilities provider an impact score of 44.90 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

Southern's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of Montreal Can (0.22%), Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.22%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.11%), Hexavest Inc. (0.09%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.05%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%). Company insiders that own Southern stock include Ann P Daiss, Art P Beattie, Christopher C Womack, James Y Kerr II, Mark A Crosswhite, Mark Lantrip, Stan W Connally 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 Hexavest Inc., Rockland Trust Co., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Hartford Investment Management Co., Park National Corp OH, Huntington National Bank, Reilly Financial Advisors LLC and Prospera Financial Services Inc. Company insiders that have sold Southern company stock in the last year include Ann P Daiss, Art P Beattie, Christopher C Womack, James Y Kerr II and William P Bowers. View Insider Buying and Selling for Southern.

SO stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Sabal Trust CO, Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Bank of Montreal Can, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, TIAA FSB and Northstar Investment Advisors LLC. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $47.52.

Southern has a market capitalization of $48.07 billion and generates $23.03 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $880 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.02 on an earnings per share basis. Southern employs 31,344 workers across the globe.

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]