SO

NYSE Southern Company
Sep 29, 2026 · 6:07 PM ET LAST TRADE Market Closed

$83.73 ↑ +0.28 (+0.33%) Trading Up from the previous close of $83.45, and at the day’s high of $83.65

YTD change
-3.98%
vs 20-day SMA
-3.05%
vs 200-day SMA
-9.18%

Price ranges

Previous day
$81.91 $83.07
open $82.96 close $82.35
-$0.61 (-0.74%)
Today
$81.69 $83.65
open $81.90 now $83.73
+$1.83 (+2.23%)
Past week
$81.91 $85.94
from $85.46 now $83.73
-$1.73 (-2.03%)
Past month
$81.91 $89.34
from $88.25 now $83.73
-$4.52 (-5.12%)
This year
$81.69 $99.58
from $87.20 now $83.73
-$3.47 (-3.98%)

Price & Performance

-14.58 (-15.04%) / 6M

$81.10$87.14$93.19$99.23Mar 30Jun 29Sep 28

Signals & Sentiment

Momentum, market sentiment, and recent alerts

Not So Good
  • The stock is 17.0% away from all-time highs of $100.84
  • SO is down 4% since the beginning of the year
  • SO is down 11% over the past 12 months
  • SO is down 5% over the past 1 month
  • 3% of all SO investors are betting against SO
  • Number of investors short SO has gone down 22% versus last month

SO reads not so good: price sits below both the 20- and 200-day averages, short interest is falling month over month, the 12-month move is -12.3%.

Financial Strength

Earnings, valuation, and balance sheet

Earnings

Profitable Yes
EPS $1.13
Earnings momentum +30.6% Quarterly EPS growth
Quarterly change +30.6%

Valuation

P/E ratio 19.97
Enterprise value $170.8B
Beta 0.02

Balance sheet & scale

Income$4.7M
Revenue$30.2B
Cash$3.0B
Debt$77.1M
Income / Debt 0.06×

Company & Peers

Company profile and competitor comparison

Company profile

ExchangeNYSE
Sector Utilities
Industry Group Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution
Market cap $96.3B

The Southern Co is a holding company, which engages in the generation and sale of electricity. It operates through the following segments: Traditional Electric Operating Companies, Southern Power, and Southern Company Gas. The Traditional Electric Operating Companies segment refers to vertically integrated utilities that own generation, transmission and distribution facilities, and supplies electric services in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. The Southern Power segment constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets such as renewable energy projects and sells electricity in the wholesale market. The Southern Company Gas segment distributes natural gas through natural gas distribution facilities in the states of Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey, Florida, Tennessee, and Maryland. The company was founded on November 9, 1945, and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Competitor comparison

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