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We are reaffirming our outlook for Southern Company after the company announced that longtime Southern executive Chris Womack will succeed CEO and president Tom Fanning in March. We’ve been anticipating this announcement since Bloomberg published a report in August suggesting Fanning planned to retire soon. We are reaffirming our narrow moat and stable moat trend ratings.
Southern is one of the largest utilities in the U.S. The company serves 9 million customers with vertically integrated electric utilities in three states and natural gas distribution utilities in four states. It owns 50 gigawatts of rate-regulated generating capacity, primarily for serving customers in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Subsidiary Southern Power owns 12 gigawatts of mostly non-rate-regulated renewable energy capacity across the U.S. and sells the electricity primarily under long-term contracts.
Yes. SO has a forward dividend yield of 4.09%.
See
SO’s full dividends and stock split history
on the Dividend tab.
Dividend yield allows investors, particularly those interested in dividend-paying stocks,
to compare the relationship between a stock’s price and how it rewards stockholders through dividends.
The formula for calculating dividend yield is to divide the annual dividend paid per share by the stock price.
Learn more about dividend yield.
SO’s market cap is 74.03 Bil.
Market capitalization is calculated by taking a company’s share price and multiplying it by the total number of shares.
It’s often used to measure a company’s size. In the Morningstar Style Box, large-cap names account for the
largest 70% of U.S. stocks, mid-cap names account for the largest 70–90%, and small-cap names are the remaining 10% of companies.
Learn more about market capitalization.
SO’s stock style is Large Core.
Style is an investment factor that has a meaningful impact on investment risk and returns.
Style is calculated by combining value and growth scores, which are first individually calculated.
High-growth stocks tend to represent the technology, healthcare, and communications sectors. They rarely distribute dividends to shareholders, opting for reinvestment in their businesses. More value-oriented stocks tend to represent financial services, utilities, and energy stocks. These are established companies that reliably pay dividends.
Learn more about style.
SO’s price/sales is 2.61.
Price/sales represents the amount an investor is willing to pay for a dollar generated from
a particular company’s sales or revenues.
SO’s price/forward earnings is 17.95.
Forward P/E gives some indication of how cheap or expensive a stock is compared with consensus earnings estimates.
The lower the Forward P/E, the cheaper the stock.
SO’s price/book is 2.37.
Price/book ratio can tell investors approximately how much they’re paying for a company’s assets,
based on historical, rather than current, valuations. Historical valuations generally do not reflect
a company’s current market value. Value investors frequently look for companies that have low price/book ratios.
See SO’s valuation ratios compared to the Market Index.
SO’s beta can be found in Trading Information at the top of this page.
A stock’s beta measures how closely tied its price movements have been to the performance of the overall market.
Compare SO’s historical performance against its industry peers and the overall market.
