NYSE:SO - Southern Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Southern declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, April 15th. Shareholders of record on Monday, May 20th will be given a dividend of $0.62 per share on Thursday, June 6th. This represents a $2.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.73%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 17th. This is an increase from Southern's previous quarterly dividend of $0.60. View Southern's Dividend History.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 20th. The utilities provider reported $0.25 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.23 by $0.02. The utilities provider earned $5.34 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.88 billion. Southern had a return on equity of 11.39% and a net margin of 9.54%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 5.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.51 earnings per share. View Southern's Earnings History.

Southern is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Southern.

Southern will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 1st at 8:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

13 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Southern's stock. Their predictions range from $44.00 to $52.00. On average, they expect Southern's share price to reach $47.1667 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 10.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for Southern.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southern in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings and 10 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Southern.

Media stories about SO stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Southern earned a media sentiment score of 1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

Some companies that are related to Southern include NextEra Energy (NEE), Enel S.p.A. ADS (ENLAY), Dominion Energy (D), American Electric Power (AEP), CLP (CLPHY), DTE Energy (DTE), Eversource Energy (ES), PPL (PPL), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Avangrid (AGR), Korea Electric Power (KEP) and Fortis (FTS).

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), Altria Group (MO), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Pfizer (PFE), Exxon Mobil (XOM), The Coca-Cola (KO) and Procter & Gamble (pg).

Southern's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.21%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.09%), Strs Ohio (0.06%), USS Investment Management Ltd (0.06%), Welch Group LLC (0.06%) and Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc. (0.05%). Company insiders that own Southern stock include Ann P Daiss, Art P Beattie, Christopher C Womack, Henry A Clark III, James Y Kerr II, Kimberly S Greene, 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 Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Edge Wealth Management LLC, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Hayden Royal LLC, DNB Asset Management AS, QUANTRES ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd, Camelot Portfolios LLC and Cahaba Wealth Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Southern company stock in the last year include Christopher C Womack, Kimberly S Greene, Mark Lantrip, Stephen E Kuczynski and William P Bowers. View Insider Buying and Selling for Southern.

SO stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including USS Investment Management Ltd, Pacer Advisors Inc., Steinberg Global Asset Management, CWM LLC, Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV, Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV, Strs Ohio and Exane Derivatives. 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 $52.44.

Southern has a market capitalization of $54.58 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.

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]