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

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

Southern announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 17th. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 19th will be paid a dividend of $0.60 per share on Wednesday, March 6th. This represents a $2.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.65%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 15th. View Southern's Dividend History.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 20th. The utilities provider reported $0.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.23 by $0.02. The utilities provider had revenue of $5.34 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.88 billion. Southern had a return on equity of 11.39% and a net margin of 9.54%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 5.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.51 EPS. 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.

14 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Southern's shares. Their forecasts range from $44.00 to $52.00. On average, they anticipate Southern's share price to reach $46.6154 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for Southern.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southern in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings and 10 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Southern.

News coverage about SO stock has been trending negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring 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 news impact score of -2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.

Southern saw a drop in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 15,853,332 shares, a drop of 20.7% from the February 15th total of 19,990,082 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 6,597,602 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Southern's Current Options Chain.

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), DTE Energy (DTE), Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Edison International (EIX), Korea Electric Power (KEP), Entergy (ETR), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY) 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), Altria Group (MO), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Duke Energy (DUK), The Coca-Cola (KO), Pfizer (PFE), Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Procter & Gamble (PG).

Southern's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.61%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.78%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.23%), Northern Trust Corp (1.17%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.03%) and FMR LLC (1.01%). 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 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 Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Millennium Management LLC, Squarepoint Ops LLC, Toronto Dominion Bank, Epoch Investment Partners Inc., Alps Advisors Inc., Nomura Holdings Inc. and Hennessy Advisors Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Southern company stock in the last year include Christopher C Womack, Kimberly S Greene, Mark Lantrip 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 Norges Bank, Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, BlackRock Inc., FMR LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, Geode Capital Management LLC, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc. and Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc.. 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 $51.57.

Southern has a market capitalization of $53.35 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]