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 1.55% and 0.38% over the past three months. SO shares are trading 18.27% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 12.12% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $76.96 and touched a high of $94.45 over the same period. SO has an average intraday trading volume of 5.24 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 2.83%, 2.76%, and 4.69% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Southern Company (NYSE: SO) shares accounts for 68.92% of the company’s 1.10B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $101.44B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.37. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 22.13, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $4.17. The company has a PEG of 3.38 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 1.39% over the week and 1.41% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Southern Company (SO) will achieve an EPS of 0.99 for the current quarter, 1.52 for the next quarter and 4.57 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.86 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.86. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 1.1 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 5.62%, and 6.98% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 6.55% 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. Raymond James stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on June 13, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $98. Jefferies coverage for the Southern Company (SO) stock in a research note released on June 05, 2025 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $100. KeyBanc Capital Markets was of a view on May 14, 2025 that the stock is Underweight, while JP Morgan gave the stock Neutral rating on April 08, 2025, issuing a price target of $94. Guggenheim on their part issued Neutral rating on January 23, 2025.
