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, July 16th. Stockholders of record on Monday, August 20th will be given a dividend of $0.60 per share on Thursday, September 6th. This represents a $2.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.11%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 17th. View Southern's Dividend History.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, August, 8th. The utilities provider reported $0.80 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.11. The utilities provider earned $5.63 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.28 billion. Southern had a return on equity of 13.06% and a net margin of 9.96%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 3.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.73 earnings per share. View Southern's Earnings History.

Southern is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November, 7th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Southern.

18 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Southern's stock. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $56.00. On average, they expect Southern's share price to reach $47.3667 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Southern.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southern in the last year. There are currently 7 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Southern.

Southern saw a increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 13th, there was short interest totalling 35,411,270 shares, an increase of 8.8% from the June 29th total of 32,545,693 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,823,586 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 7.3 days. Currently, 3.5% of the company's shares are sold short. View Southern's Current Options Chain.

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News articles about SO stock have trended somewhat positive on Sunday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative 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 nearest to one being the most favorable. Southern earned a coverage optimism score of 0.12 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the utilities provider an impact score of 44.64 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View Recent Headlines for Southern.

Southern's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.38%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.71%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.03%), Federated Investors Inc. PA (0.90%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.86%) and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (0.82%). 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 Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Hexavest Inc., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Advisors Asset Management Inc., State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Rockland Trust Co. and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock Inc., Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Integrated Investment Consultants LLC, Integrated Investment Consultants LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System and FMR LLC. 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 $46.97.

Southern has a market capitalization of $46.78 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]