NYSE:SO - Southern Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Southern declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, April 16th. Investors 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 5.38%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, May 18th. This is a boost from Southern's previous quarterly dividend of $0.58. View Southern's Dividend History.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 2nd. The utilities provider reported $0.88 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' 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 net margin of 4.88% and a return on equity of 12.97%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 10.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.66 earnings per share. View Southern's Earnings History.

Southern is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August, 1st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Southern.

16 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Southern's stock. Their forecasts range from $42.00 to $56.00. On average, they anticipate Southern's share price to reach $48.3214 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Southern.

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News stories about SO stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Southern earned a daily sentiment score of 0.15 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the utilities provider an impact score of 46.19 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future.

Southern's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.26%), Franklin Resources Inc. (3.85%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.47%), Northern Trust Corp (1.18%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.93%) and Federated Investors Inc. PA (0.92%). Company insiders that own Southern stock include Ann P Daiss, Art P Beattie, Christopher C Womack, James Y Kerr II, Kimberly S Greene, 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 Wells Fargo & Company MN, Prudential Financial Inc., State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of Alberta as represented by Alberta Investment Management Corp, Swiss National Bank, Russell Investments Group Ltd., California Public Employees Retirement System and Nuveen Asset Management LLC. 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 Franklin Resources Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Federated Investors Inc. PA, Natixis, BlackRock Inc., Forsta AP Fonden, LPL Financial LLC and UBS Group AG. 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 $44.57.

Southern has a market capitalization of $44.95 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]