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, April 16th. Shareholders of record on Monday, May 21st will be given a dividend of $0.60 per share on Wednesday, June 6th. This represents a $2.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.00%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 18th. This is an increase from Southern's previous quarterly dividend of $0.58. View Southern's Dividend History.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The utilities provider reported $0.88 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.84 by $0.04. The utilities provider earned $6.37 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.98 billion. Southern had a return on equity of 12.97% and a net margin of 4.88%. Southern's revenue was up 10.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.66 EPS. 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 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Southern's stock. Their predictions range from $42.00 to $56.00. On average, they anticipate Southern's stock price to reach $47.8077 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.3%. 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), SSE PLC/S (SSEZY), Eversource Energy (ES), Korea Electric Power (KEP), FirstEnergy (FE), Avangrid (AGR) and Entergy (ETR).

Media stories about SO stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Southern earned a coverage optimism score of 0.13 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the utilities provider an impact score of 46.76 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Southern's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.22%), Hexavest Inc. (0.09%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%), Capital Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%), Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.03%) and TNB Financial (0.03%). 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., Park National Corp OH, Atria Investments LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Cullinan Associates Inc., Union Bankshares Corp and CENTRAL TRUST Co. 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 State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Capital Investment Advisors LLC, Confluence Investment Management LLC, Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, IFM Investors Pty Ltd, DnB Asset Management AS, TNB Financial and First PREMIER Bank. 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 $47.96.

Southern has a market capitalization of $48.52 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]