NYSE:SO - Southern Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Southern announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 17th. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 18th will be given a dividend of $0.62 per share on Friday, March 6th. This represents a $2.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.60%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 14th. View Southern's Dividend History.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 30th. The utilities provider reported $1.34 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.14 by $0.20. The utilities provider earned $6 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.01 billion. Southern had a net margin of 21.02% and a return on equity of 10.52%. The company's revenue was down 2.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.14 earnings per share. View Southern's Earnings History.

Southern is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 19th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Southern.

12 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for Southern's shares. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $67.00. On average, they anticipate Southern's stock price to reach $60.86 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for Southern.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southern in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Southern.

News headlines about SO stock have trended extremely negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Southern earned a news impact score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect 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), Edison International (EIX), FirstEnergy (FE), PPL (PPL), Entergy (ETR), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR) and Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE).

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

Southern's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.06%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%), Sabal Trust CO (0.04%), Capital Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%), Norris Perne & French LLP MI (0.03%) and 6 Meridian (0.03%). Company insiders that own Southern stock include Ann P Daiss, Anthony F Earley Jr, Anthony L Wilson, Christopher C Womack, Henry A Clark III, James Y Kerr II, Kimberly S Greene, Mark A Crosswhite, Mark Lantrip, Stan W Connally, Stephen E Kuczynski, Thomas A Fanning 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 Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Capital Investment Advisors LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Deane Retirement Strategies Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Rockland Trust Co.. 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, Mark A Crosswhite, Mark Lantrip, Stan W Connally, Stephen E Kuczynski, Thomas A Fanning 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 Norris Perne & French LLP MI, S.E.E.D. Planning Group LLC, AE Wealth Management LLC, DNB Asset Management AS, Bristlecone Advisors LLC, Moseley Investment Management Inc., 6 Meridian and Balasa Dinverno & Foltz LLC. 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 $68.96.

Southern has a market capitalization of $72.32 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]