Southern Company (SO) concluded trading on Thursday ata closing price of $87.01, with 2.81 million shares of worth about $244.54 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 28.31% during that period and on August 15, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -0.21%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 1.10B shares, out of which, 1.09B shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 0.64% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 6.59%. Year-to-date (YTD), SO shares are showing a performance of 24.09% which increased to 28.37% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $61.56 but also hit the highest price of $89.68 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Southern Company shares is 3.97 million. The stock is currently trading 2.75% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 7.28% for SMA50 and it goes to 18.38% higher than SMA200.
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Southern Company (NYSE: SO) currently have 1.10B outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 70.10% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $95.24B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.50. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 20.74, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.19 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.84 and has Quick Ratio of 0.64 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.02. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for SO, volatility over the week remained 1.18% while standing at 1.72% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 10.59% while it is estimated to increase by 7.14% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 7.30% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 10.78% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
On January 11, 2024, BMO Capital Markets Upgrade their recommendations, while on December 08, 2023, Citigroup Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $82. Stock get a Sector perform rating from Scotiabank on November 03, 2023.
