Southern Company (SO) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $92.11, with 5.01 million shares of worth about $461.59 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 4.03% during that period and on May 07, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.98%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 1.10B shares, out of which, 1.10B shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 0.24% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 5.61%. Year-to-date (YTD), SO shares are showing a performance of 11.89% which increased to 21.44% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $75.20 but also hit the highest price of $94.45 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Southern Company shares is 4.89 million. The stock is currently trading 1.40% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 2.07% for SMA50 and it goes to 5.14% higher than SMA200.
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) currently have 1.10B outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 68.95% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $101.23B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.38. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 22.09, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.17 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.39 and has Quick Ratio of 0.64 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.07. 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 1.58% while standing at 2.07% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 5.57% while it is estimated to increase by 6.85% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 6.52% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -2.34% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by JP Morgan on April 08, 2025 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $94 to it. On September 20, 2024, Jefferies Initiated their recommendations, while on September 16, 2024, Mizuho Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $90. Stock get a Peer perform rating from Wolfe Research on August 02, 2024.
