Southern Company (NYSE: SO) on Friday, plunged -0.68% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $89.74. Within the past 52 weeks, SO’s price has moved between $65.80 and $94.45.
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Utilities Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 2.46% over the last five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 10.63%. 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. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 40.92%, operating margin of 27.12%, and the pretax margin is 20.75%.
Southern Company (SO) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Utilities – Regulated Electric industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Southern Company is 0.19%, while institutional ownership is 68.47%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 04 ’24, was worth 70,212. In this transaction EVP, Chief Legal Officer & CCO of this company sold 793 shares at a rate of $88.54, taking the stock ownership to the 11,707 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 04 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 793 for $88.54, making the entire transaction worth $70,212.
Southern Company (SO) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 10.63% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.25% during the next five years compared to 10.78% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) Trading Performance Indicators
Southern Company (SO) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.63 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.67. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 1328.69.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.29, a number that is poised to hit 0.53 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 3.73 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 4.43 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 79.89%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.26.
During the past 100 days, Southern Company’s (SO) raw stochastic average was set at 66.41%, which indicates a significant decrease from 69.52% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 10.67% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 16.77% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $89.72, while its 200-day Moving Average is $80.79. Now, the first resistance to watch is $89.84. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $90.55. The third major resistance level sits at $91.02. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $88.67, it is likely to go to the next support level at $88.20. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $87.49.
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 96.99 billion based on 1,095,684K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 25,253 M and income totals 3,976 M. The company made 7,274 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 1,535 M in sales during its previous quarter.
