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. Shareholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.61%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 15th. View Southern's Dividend History.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 20th. The utilities provider reported $0.25 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.23 by $0.02. The utilities provider earned $5.34 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.88 billion. Southern had a net margin of 9.54% and a return on equity of 11.39%. Southern's revenue was down 5.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior 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 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Southern's stock. Their predictions range from $44.00 to $52.00. On average, they expect Southern's share price to reach $46.6154 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 10.4%. 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.

Media headlines about SO stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Southern earned a daily sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the utilities provider a news buzz of 7.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Southern saw a decrease in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 15,853,332 shares, a decrease 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 short-interest ratio is presently 2.4 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the company are short sold. 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), Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNABY), Entergy (ETR), 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 many different 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 bought 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 $52.03.

Southern has a market capitalization of $53.83 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]