Southern (1SO) Stock Overview

Through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. More details

1SO fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	2/6
Future Growth	1/6
Past Performance	3/6
Financial Health	0/6
Dividends	4/6

Rewards

Trading at 23.8% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings are forecast to grow 6.86% per year

Earnings grew by 8.6% over the past year

Risk Analysis

Interest payments are not well covered by earnings

Significant insider selling over the past 3 months

Dividend of 3.31% 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$78.05
52 Week High	US$85.42
52 Week Low	US$74.73
Beta	0.37
1 Month Change	-1.96%
3 Month Change	-5.42%
1 Year Change	5.89%
3 Year Change	18.28%
5 Year Change	73.25%
Change since IPO	39.82%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	1SO	IT Electric Utilities	IT Market
7D	-0.4%	0.5%	-0.4%
1Y	5.9%	18.4%	16.6%

Return vs Industry: 1SO underperformed the Italian Electric Utilities industry which returned 17.8% over the past year.

Return vs Market: 1SO underperformed the Italian Market which returned 14.6% over the past year.

Price Volatility

Is 1SO's price volatile compared to industry and market?
1SO volatility
1SO Average Weekly Movement	2.9%
Electric Utilities Industry Average Movement	4.2%
Market Average Movement	5.1%
10% most volatile stocks in IT Market	8.3%
10% least volatile stocks in IT Market	3.4%

Stable Share Price: 1SO has not had significant price volatility in the past 3 months compared to the Italian market.

Volatility Over Time: 1SO's weekly volatility (3%) has been stable over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1946	28,457	Chris Womack	www.southerncompany.com

The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. The company develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects and sells electricity in the wholesale market; distributes natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee; operates, constructs, and maintains approximately 78,500 miles of natural gas pipelines and 14 storage facilities; and provides gas marketing services, as well as electric services to retail customers. It also offers distributed energy and resilience solutions, and digital wireless communications and fiber optics services, as well as deploys microgrids for commercial, industrial, governmental, utility customers.

The Southern Company Fundamentals Summary

How do Southern's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
1SO fundamental statistics
Market cap	€84.56b
Earnings (TTM)	€4.00b
Revenue (TTM)	€24.18b

21.3x

P/E Ratio

3.5x

P/S Ratio

Is 1SO overvalued?

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
1SO income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$27.85b
Cost of Revenue	US$14.01b
Gross Profit	US$13.84b
Other Expenses	US$9.23b
Earnings	US$4.61b

Last Reported Earnings

Mar 31, 2025

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	4.19
Gross Margin	49.69%
Net Profit Margin	16.54%
Debt/Equity Ratio	184.4%

How did 1SO perform over the long term?

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Dividends

3.3%

Current Dividend Yield

69%

Payout Ratio

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/06/20 21:21
End of Day Share Price	2025/06/20 00:00
Earnings	2025/03/31
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

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 40 analysts. 15 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
Nathan Judge	Atlantic Equities LLP
Daniel Ford	Barclays

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