Southern (SOT) Stock Overview

Through its subsidiaries, engages in the sale of electricity. More details

SOT fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	0/6
Future Growth	2/6
Past Performance	2/6
Financial Health	0/6
Dividends	4/6

Rewards

Earnings are forecast to grow 10.43% per year

Risk Analysis

Interest payments are not well covered by earnings

Shares are highly illiquid

Significant insider selling over the past 3 months

Dividend of 3.23% is not well covered by free cash flows

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Southern
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$73.11
52 Week High	US$0
52 Week Low	US$0
Beta	0.34
1 Month Change	n/a
3 Month Change	n/a
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	0%

Recent News & Updates

No updates

Recent updates

No updates

Shareholder Returns

	SOT	CH Electric Utilities	CH Market
7D	0%	1.4%	2.2%
1Y	n/a	20.4%	10.7%

Return vs Industry: Insufficient data to determine how SOT performed against the Swiss Electric Utilities industry.

Return vs Market: Insufficient data to determine how SOT performed against the Swiss Market.

Price Volatility

Is SOT's price volatile compared to industry and market?
SOT volatility
SOT Average Weekly Movement	n/a
Electric Utilities Industry Average Movement	3.8%
Market Average Movement	4.4%
10% most volatile stocks in CH Market	7.3%
10% least volatile stocks in CH Market	2.4%

Stable Share Price: SOT's share price has been volatile over the past 3 months compared to the Swiss market.

Volatility Over Time: Insufficient data to determine SOT's volatility change over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1945	29,651	Chris Womack	www.southerncompany.com

The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the sale of electricity. The company offers electric service to retail customers and wholesale customers; and energy-related products and services to natural gas choice markets. It also develops, constructs, acquires, owns, operates, and manages power generation assets, as well as battery energy storage projects; sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market; and deploys microgrids for commercial, industrial, governmental, and utility customers.

The Southern Company Fundamentals Summary

How do Southern's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
SOT fundamental statistics
Market cap	CHF 84.11b
Earnings (TTM)	CHF 3.46b
Revenue (TTM)	CHF 23.95b

24.3x

P/E Ratio

3.5x

P/S Ratio

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
SOT income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$30.18b
Cost of Revenue	US$15.69b
Gross Profit	US$14.49b
Other Expenses	US$10.12b
Earnings	US$4.36b

Last Reported Earnings

Mar 31, 2026

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	3.87
Gross Margin	48.00%
Net Profit Margin	14.46%
Debt/Equity Ratio	186.7%

How did SOT perform over the long term?

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Dividends

3.2%

Current Dividend Yield

75%

Payout Ratio

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/06/15 21:22
End of Day Share Price	2026/06/08 00:00
Earnings	2026/03/31
Annual Earnings	2025/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* Example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more.

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Analyst Sources

The Southern Company is covered by 30 analysts. 17 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Jacob Kilstein	Argus Research Company
Daniel Ford	Barclays
Nicholas Campanella	Barclays