Southern Company (NYSE: SO) on Tuesday, plunged -1.68% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $96.0. Within the past 52 weeks, SO’s price has moved between $80.46 and $96.44.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales drop of Utilities Sector giant was -2.34%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 5.48%. With a float of $1.10 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $1.10 billion.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 28600 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 55.34%, operating margin of 25.39%, and the pretax margin is 18.15%.
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 0.12%, while institutional ownership is 68.97%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 21 ’25, was worth 1,250,010. In this transaction Chairman, President & CEO, GPC of this company sold 13,158 shares at a rate of $95.00, taking the stock ownership to the 93,661 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 21 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 13,158 for $95.00, making the entire transaction worth $1,250,010.
Southern Company (SO) Recent Fiscal highlights
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.62 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.48% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.68% during the next five years compared to -2.34% drop 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 0.53 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 3.66.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.87, a number that is poised to hit 1.52 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.58 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Southern Company (SO)
Looking closely at Southern Company (NYSE: SO), its last 5-days average volume was 7.77 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 5.21 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 65.00%.
During the past 100 days, Southern Company’s (SO) raw stochastic average was set at 84.64%, which indicates a significant increase from 43.99% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 1.36 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 1.54 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $91.63, while its 200-day Moving Average is $88.66.
