On Monday, Southern Company (NYSE: SO) was 1.15% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $72.15. A 52-week range for SO has been $61.56 – $75.80.
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Utilities Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 2.46% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 9.91%. With a float of $1.09 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $1.10 billion.
The firm has a total of 28100 workers. Let’s measure their productivity.
Southern Company (SO) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Southern Company stocks. The insider ownership of Southern Company is 0.22%, while institutional ownership is 64.94%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 11 ’24, was worth 344,600. In this transaction CEO, Southern Nuclear of this company sold 5,000 shares at a rate of $68.92, taking the stock ownership to the 126,528 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 16 ’24, when Company’s EVP & CCCS Officer sold 902 for $65.99, making the entire transaction worth $59,523. This insider now owns 22,502 shares in total.
Southern Company (SO) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 9.91% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.30% during the next five years compared to 10.78% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Southern Company (SO) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.53. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.15.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.63, a number that is poised to hit 0.90 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.32 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Southern Company (SO)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Southern Company, SO], we can find that recorded value of 5.53 million was better than the volume posted last year of 4.67 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 97.52%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.26.
During the past 100 days, Southern Company’s (SO) raw stochastic average was set at 94.23%, which indicates a significant decrease from 96.99% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 20.07% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 17.82% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $69.06, while its 200-day Moving Average is $69.10. Now, the first resistance to watch is $73.53. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $74.09. The third major resistance level sits at $75.02. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $72.04, it is likely to go to the next support level at $71.11. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $70.55.
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) Key Stats
There are 1,094,633K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 79.62 billion. As of now, sales total 25,253 M while income totals 3,976 M. Its latest quarter income was 6,045 M while its last quarter net income were 854,000 K.
