Southern Co (SO)

Data as of 2026-09-03.

Key facts

Price
88.47 USD
Market capitalisation
$101.3B
P/E ratio
22.6
Dividend yield
3.40%
52-week range
83.80 - 100.84
Beta
0.30
Sector
Utilities
Industry
Utilities
Country
US
Exchange
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC.
Employees
29 651
IPO date
1949-09-30
Next earnings
2026-10-28
Analyst price target
102.11 USD
Analyst consensus
14 buy / 17 hold / 2 sell
Stoxly score
25.9 / 100
Universe percentile
better than 17% of the analysed universe

About Southern Co

The Southern Co is a holding company, which engages in the generation and sale of electricity. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and currently employs 29,800 full-time employees. The firm owns three traditional electric operating companies, Southern Power Company and Southern Company Gas. The traditional electric operating companies-Alabama Power, Georgia Power and Mississippi Power-are operating public utility companies providing electric service to retail customers in three Southeastern states in addition to wholesale customers in the Southeast. The Southern Power Company develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including battery energy storage projects, and sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market. The Southern Company Gas is an energy services holding company whose primary business is the distribution of natural gas in four states - Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, through the natural gas distribution utilities. Southern Company Gas is also involved in several other businesses that are complementary to the distribution of natural gas.

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