The Southern Company (SO)

Last Closing Price: 73.91 (2024-04-24)

Company Description

Atlanta, GA-based Southern Company is one of the largest utilities in the United States. The company deals with the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. Southern Company serves approximately nine million customers in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and other states, through several wholesale and retail electric and natural gas distribution units, with aggregate generating capacity of 46,000 megawatts, approximately 200,000 miles of electric transmission and distribution lines, with more than 80,000 miles of natural gas pipelines. The company owns Southern Power and Southern Company Gas along with other direct and indirect subsidiaries. Southern Power engages in developing, owning and managing power generation assets, including nuclear energy, renewable energy projects and selling electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market.

Financials, Fundamental Metrics & Ratios
Revenue (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $25.25B
Net Income (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $3.98B
PE Ratio (Current Year Earnings Estimate) 18.32
PE Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) 20.12
PEG Ratio (Long Term Growth Estimate) 4.58
Price to Sales Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) 3.18
Price to Book Ratio (Most Recent Quarterly Book Value per Share) 2.27
Price to Cash Ratio (Most Recent Annual Cash Flow per Share) 8.91
Pre-Tax Margin (Trailing 12 Months) 17.21%
Net Margin (Trailing 12 Months) 15.79%
Return on Equity (Trailing 12 Months) 11.40%
Return on Assets (Trailing 12 Months) 2.90%
Current Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 0.77
Quick Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 0.56
Debt to Common Equity (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 1.62
Inventory Turnover (Trailing 12 Months) 4.95
Book Value per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) $32.30
Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) $0.64
Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $3.65
Diluted Earnings per Share (Trailing 12 Months) $3.63
Stock
Exchange NYSE
Sector Utilities
Industry Utilities - Regulated Electric
Common Shares Outstanding 1.09B
Free Float 1.09B
Market Capitalization $80.18B
Average Volume (Last 20 Days) 4.69M
Beta (Past 60 Months) 0.49
Percentage Held By Insiders (Latest Annual Proxy Report) 0.18%
Percentage Held By Institutions (Latest 13F Reports) 64.10%
Annual Dividend (Based on Last Quarter) $2.80
Dividend Yield (Based on Last Quarter) 3.82%