On Friday, Southern Company (NYSE: SO) was -0.14% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $88.38. A 52-week range for SO has been $76.96 – $94.45.
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Annual sales at Utilities sector company grew by 4.75% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 5.67%. With a float of $1.10 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $1.10 billion.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 28600 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 45.42%, operating margin of 26.38%, and the pretax margin is 19.69%.
Southern Company (SO) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Southern Company stocks. The insider ownership of Southern Company is 0.14%, while institutional ownership is 68.91%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jun 03 ’25, was worth 100,283. Before that another transaction happened on May 23 ’25, when Company’s EVP sold 12,335 for $89.54, making the entire transaction worth $1,104,476. This insider now owns 22,502 shares in total.
Southern Company (SO) Latest Financial update
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.67% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.59% during the next five years compared to -2.34% drop 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 0.64. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.48.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 4.17, a number that is poised to hit 1.00 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.58 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Southern Company (SO)
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) saw its 5-day average volume 5.25 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 5.12 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 31.47%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.57.
During the past 100 days, Southern Company’s (SO) raw stochastic average was set at 55.96%, which indicates a significant increase from 23.68% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 16.25% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 21.70% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $89.87, while its 200-day Moving Average is $87.97. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $88.72 in the near term. At $89.18, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $89.67. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $87.77, it is likely to go to the next support level at $87.27. The third support level lies at $86.81 if the price breaches the second support level.
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) Key Stats
There are 1,099,055K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 97.00 billion. As of now, sales total 26,724 M while income totals 4,401 M. Its latest quarter income was 7,775 M while its last quarter net income were 1,334 M.
