Southern Company (NYSE: SO) open the trading on Thursday, with great promise as it jumped 0.44% to $92.70, before settling in for the price of $92.29 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, SO posted a 52-week range of $64.53-$92.46.
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The Utilities Sector giants’ yearly sales growth during the last 5-year period was 2.46%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 10.78%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 10.57%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $1.10 billion, simultaneously with a float of $1.09 billion. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $101.47 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $88.68, while the 200-day Moving Average is $77.77.
Southern Company (SO) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Utilities – Regulated Electric industry. Southern Company’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.19%, in contrast to 68.94% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Oct 04 ’24, this organization’s Chairman, President & CEO, GAS sold 30,000 shares at the rate of 89.64, making the entire transaction reach 2,689,200 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 145,088.
Southern Company (SO) Earnings and Revenue Records
Southern Company’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 10.57% and is forecasted to reach 4.32 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 6.00% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 10.78% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Southern Company (SO). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.64. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.31. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $22.10, and its Beta score is 0.51. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 3.88.
In the same vein, SO’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 4.19, a figure that is expected to reach 1.37 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 4.32 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Southern Company (SO)
[Southern Company, SO] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was poorer than the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 87.09% While, its Average True Range was 1.32.
Raw Stochastic average of Southern Company (SO) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 99.07%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 96.77% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 13.96% that was lower than 15.85% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
