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, October 15th. Stockholders of record on Monday, November 19th will be given a dividend of $0.60 per share on Thursday, December 6th. This represents a $2.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.12%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 16th. View Southern's Dividend History.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 7th. The utilities provider reported $1.14 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.07 by $0.07. The utilities provider had revenue of $6.70 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.68 billion. Southern had a net margin of 10.35% and a return on equity of 12.88%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 8.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.12 earnings per share. View Southern's Earnings History.

Southern is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 20th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Southern.

16 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Southern's shares. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $48.00. On average, they expect Southern's stock price to reach $45.7308 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.5%. View Analyst Price Targets for Southern.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southern in the last year. There are currently 6 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Southern.

Media headlines about SO stock have been trending neutral recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog 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 0.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.

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), PPL (PPL), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), DTE Energy (DTE), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Entergy (ETR), Avangrid (AGR) and SSE PLC/S (SSEZY).

Southern's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.45%), Franklin Resources Inc. (3.85%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.80%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.05%), FMR LLC (0.85%) and Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.84%). Company insiders that own Southern stock include Ann P Daiss, Art P Beattie, Christopher C Womack, James Y Kerr II, 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 Capital Research Global Investors, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Crawford Investment Counsel Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, SG Americas Securities LLC, Franklin Resources Inc., Eaton Vance Management and Nordea Investment Management AB. View Insider Buying and Selling for Southern.

SO stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, FMR LLC, Zimmer Partners LP, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, BlackRock Inc., Luminus Management LLC, Deutsche Bank AG and Seven Eight Capital LP. 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 $46.89.

Southern has a market capitalization of $48.64 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.

The official website for Southern is http://www.southernco.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]