Southern Company (SO) went up 0.19% yesterday: Is this the Most Sought-After Stock Today?

Southern Company (NYSE: SO) started the day on Thursday, with a price increase of 0.19% at $88.14, before settling in for the price of $87.97 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, SO posted a 52-week range of $65.80-$94.45.

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The Utilities sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 2.46% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 10.78%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 10.62%. 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 $96.57 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $89.77, while the 200-day Moving Average is $80.25.

Southern Company (SO) Ownership Facts and Figures

Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Utilities – Regulated Electric Industry. Southern Company’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.19%, in contrast to 68.48% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Nov 04 ’24, this organization’s EVP, Chief Legal Officer & CCO sold 793 shares at the rate of 88.54, making the entire transaction reach 70,212 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 11,707.

Southern Company (SO) Earnings and Revenue Records

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.17 per share during the current fiscal year.

Southern Company’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 10.62% 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 6.25% 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 0.63. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.34. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $20.53, and its Beta score is 0.50. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 3.65. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 1322.93.

In the same vein, SO’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 4.29, a figure that is expected to reach 0.53 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)

If we take a close look at the recent performances of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), its last 5-days Average volume was 4.58 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 4.45 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 61.42% While, its Average True Range was 1.28.

Raw Stochastic average of Southern Company (SO) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 62.84%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 62.32% 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 13.58% that was lower than 16.60% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.