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 6.15% and 5.03% over the past three months. SO shares are trading 10.34% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 14.42% 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 5.02 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 0.98%, 0.97%, and 3.40% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Southern Company (NYSE: SO) shares accounts for 69.05% of the company’s 1.10B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $99.83B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.35. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 21.78, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $4.17. The company has a PEG of 3.34 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 2.12% over the week and 1.83% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 5.57%, and 6.91% 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. KeyBanc Capital Markets stated their Underweight rating for the stock in a research note on May 14, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $78. JP Morgan coverage for the Southern Company (SO) stock in a research note released on April 08, 2025 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $94. Guggenheim was of a view on January 23, 2025 that the stock is Neutral, while Jefferies gave the stock Hold rating on September 20, 2024, issuing a price target of $94. Mizuho on their part issued Neutral rating on September 16, 2024.
