Currently, there are 1.10B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.10B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -6.19% and -1.02% over the past three months. SO shares are trading 3.95% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 9.35% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $76.64 and touched a high of $94.45 over the same period. SO has an average intraday trading volume of 4.89 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -5.60%, -5.10%, and -2.47% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Southern Company (NYSE: SO) shares accounts for 69.73% of the company’s 1.10B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $94.05B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.36. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 20.52, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $4.17. The company has a PEG of 3.15 and a Quick Ratio of 0.64 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 2.07. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.11% over the week and 1.82% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 5.57%, and 6.85% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 6.52% over the next five years, compared to -2.34% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the SO, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. JP Morgan stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on April 08, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $94. Jefferies was of a view on September 20, 2024 that the stock is Hold, while Mizuho gave the stock Neutral rating on September 16, 2024, issuing a price target of $90. Wolfe Research on their part issued Peer Perform rating on August 02, 2024.
