The Southern Company (SO)
NYSE · Common stock · Electric Services
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SO at a glance
Key statistics
$104.35B
Market capitalization
- Previous close
- $90.71
- Open
- $90.06
- Day range
- $90.06 – $90.99
- Volume
- 2.09M
- Average volume (30 sessions)
- 6.34M
- Shares outstanding
- 1.15B
- Price / earnings
- 22.4
- Earnings per share
- $4.05
- Price / book
- 2.5
- Price / sales
- 3.5
- Dividend yield
- 2.97%
- Beta (1 year, vs SPY)
- -0.21
Where the price sits in its year
52-week range
49% of the range
- Below the 52-week high
- -9.1%
- Above the 52-week low
- +10.8%
Completed sessions through Oct 20, 2026
Technical snapshot
Above its 50-day average, below its 200-day
- 20-day average
- $85.85+5.7%
- 50-day average
- $87.73+3.4%
- 200-day average
- $92.22-1.6%
Between the conventional 30 and 70 bands.
+3.0%
1 week
+6.1%
1 month
-5.3%
3 months
+4.0%
Year to date
-7.2%
1 year
Price change over each window, from completed sessions. Past performance does not indicate future results.
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From the public news wire
SO headlines
No headlines on the wire for SO in recent weeks.
SEC Form 4, most recent first
Insider filings
MEADOR DAVID E
+913.502
Director · Grant or award
$76.25K · Oct 1, 2026
Thomas Lizanne
+539.116
Director · Grant or award
$45.00K · Oct 1, 2026
Turner John M JR
+913.502
Director · Grant or award
$76.25K · Oct 1, 2026
Etheredge James O
+539.116
Director · Grant or award
$45.00K · Oct 1, 2026
Svinicki Kristine L
+539.116
Director · Grant or award
$45.00K · Oct 1, 2026
JOHNS JOHN D
+539.116
Director · Grant or award
$45.00K · Oct 1, 2026
EARLEY ANTHONY F JR
+262.07
Director · Grant or award
$21.87K · Oct 1, 2026
GRAIN DAVID J
+973.404
Director · Grant or award
$81.25K · Oct 1, 2026
About The Southern Company
Southern is one of the largest utilities in the US. The company serves 9 million customers with vertically integrated electric utilities in three states and natural gas distribution utilities in four states. It owns 46 gigawatts of rate-regulated generating capacity, primarily for serving customers in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Subsidiary Southern Power owns 13 gigawatts of natural gas generation and renewable energy across the US and sells the electricity primarily under long-term contracts.
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Security
- Common stock
- Industry
- Electric Services
- Headquarters
- Atlanta, GA
- Employees
- 29,800
- Listed since
- Oct 4, 1949
- Website
- southerncompany.com
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