Southern Company (SO)
Utilities · electric and gas utilities · NYSE
A diversified energy holding company providing regulated electric and natural gas service, as well as competitive wholesale power and energy solutions.
What Southern Company does
Southern Company is a large-scale energy provider that operates through traditional electric operating companies (Alabama Power, Georgia Power, and Mississippi Power), Southern Power, and natural gas distribution utilities. The company generates, transmits, and distributes electricity, and also provides natural gas distribution and related services across several U.S. states. The Southern Company system includes nuclear, natural gas, and renewable energy generating assets.
Themes: electric utilities, natural gas distribution, nuclear energy, renewable energy infrastructure, energy infrastructure regulation
Fundamentals
- Price$90.10 as of 2026-08-24 close
- Market cap$101.6B as of 2026-08-24
- 1-year return-4.6% 2025-08-22 close $94.48 → 2026-08-24 close $90.10
- P/E22.87 as of 2026-08-25
- Net margin+16.1% as of 2026-08-25
- Gross margin+40.0% as of 2026-08-25
- ROE+12.6% as of 2026-08-25
- Debt / equity1.91 as of 2026-08-25
- Revenue growth (YoY)+6.8% as of 2026-08-25
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+0.3% SEC XBRL
- Beta0.30 as of 2026-08-25
- Last reported earnings2026-07-30 SEC EDGAR Form 8-K (Item 2.02)
Dividend: yield +4.0%; at least 5 years of non-decreasing per-share dividends (SEC XBRL) — we do not hold the year before it, so the real streak may be longer.
How SO compares in its sector
- price-to-earnings ratiomiddle range 67 covered Utilities peers, as of 2026-08-25
- net profit marginmiddle range 71 covered Utilities peers, as of 2026-08-25
- operating marginmiddle range 71 covered Utilities peers, as of 2026-08-25
- gross marginmiddle range 53 covered Utilities peers, as of 2026-08-25
- return on equitytop 25% 72 covered Utilities peers, as of 2026-08-25
- 3-year revenue CAGRmiddle range 70 covered Utilities peers
- indicated dividend yieldmiddle range 67 covered Utilities peers, as of 2026-08-25
- free cash flow (absolute dollars, latest fiscal year)bottom 10% 57 covered Utilities peers, as of FY2025
Position among covered Utilities companies that report each metric (minimum 5 peers). A relative position within our covered catalog — not a valuation, quality, or investment judgment. A higher percentile is simply a higher value (for P/E, more expensive on earnings — never "better"). Informational only.
Top 10 scores & list membership
SO is not currently in any published Top 10 list. Its scores are below.
Long-term score
45.1 #1089 of 1,605 scored · #38 of 57 in Utilities
Capital return 80th (consecutive years of dividend increases 5 years) and profitability 64th (operating margin 25.3%, return on equity 12.6%); weakest is financial health (17th, debt to equity 1.9).
Short-term score
44.9 #981 of 1,698 scored · #22 of 58 in Utilities
Volume and participation 98th: trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average; catalysts 44th: open-market insider buys in 90 days 14, the analyst consensus rating is unchanged since the prior reading; weakest is momentum 27th: its RSI momentum gauge is in neutral territory.
Scores as of 24 Aug 2026. Each bar is a percentile: how this company ranked against every company the score ranked, 0–100. A list is a published formula and its output, not a recommendation. Method version 3.
Dividend coverage (FY2025)
Covered by reported results. In FY2025, SO's dividend was covered by reported results (earnings payout 69%). This describes past coverage, not a forecast.
- Earnings payout69% dividends / net income
- Free-cash-flow payoutnot assessable free cash flow was not positive that year
Coverage derived from reported SEC EDGAR XBRL figures for FY2025 (dividends paid vs. net income and free cash flow, same fiscal year). This describes PAST coverage for one fiscal year — it does not predict whether a dividend will be maintained, raised, or cut, and a one-year payout ratio can be distorted by non-recurring items. Informational only — not financial advice.
How Southern Company looks technically
Southern Company (SO) is trading 2.6% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend. Its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 108 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal. There is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 14, below the 25 that marks a real trend), though sellers have been pushing harder than buyers lately — pressure, not a trend. Momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 36, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30). It made a new 20-day low about 2 trading days ago.
Trend
8
| Distance from the 200-day | it is trading 2.6% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend | -2.6% |
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| 50-day moving average | its average price over the last 50 trading days — a short-term trend line — is $94.36 | $94.36 |
| 200-day moving average | its average price over the last 200 trading days — the long-term trend line — is $92.51 | $92.51 |
| Swing structure | each recent peak has been lower than the one before it and each dip deeper — the pattern chart-watchers call a downtrend, which describes where price has already been and not where it goes next | lower highs and lower lows |
| Last swing turn | its last significant turn was a swing low 13 calendar days ago — the swings before that are what the structure reading is measured on | 13 sessions |
| Wave structure | its recent swings can be read as a five-part downward sequence — what Elliott-wave chartists call an impulse — now in the fourth leg, a pullback against that downward direction; the labelling fails if price closes above 93.21. It is the only labelling that fits, though not with textbook proportions, and it describes the swings already printed, not what comes next. | possible downward five-wave sequence, in wave 4 (atypical proportions) |
| Since the 50/200 cross | its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 108 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal | 108 sessions |
| Trend strength (14-day ADX) | there is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 14, below the 25 that marks a real trend), though sellers have been pushing harder than buyers lately — pressure, not a trend | 13.6 |
Momentum
3
| 14-day RSI | momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 36, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30) | 36.4 |
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| Position in its 14-day range | it is trading in the lower half of its 14-day range ($88.91 to $94.44) — its "stochastic" reading is 22 out of 100, where 0 would mean closing exactly at the 14-session low and 100 exactly at the high. This measures WHERE the price sits inside its recent range, which is a different question from the RSI beside it: RSI is a momentum gauge, measuring how FAST the price has been moving, so a stock can drift quietly to the bottom of its range with an ordinary RSI, or fall sharply and still sit in the middle. It has been climbing within that range over the last few sessions. | 21.5 |
| Since the MACD crossed zero | MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, is in negative territory (momentum leaning bearish) | 18 sessions |
Range
12
| 52-week high | its highest closing price over the past year (about 252 trading days) was $100.84 | $100.84 |
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| From the 52-week high | it is 10.7% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year) | -10.7% |
| Above the 52-week low | it is 7.5% above its 52-week low (its lowest price of the past year) | +7.5% |
| Below the 52-week high | it is 10.7% below its highest point of the past year | 10.7% |
| Since a 20-day breakout | it made a new 20-day low about 2 trading days ago | 2 sessions |
| Since a 55-day breakout | it made a new 55-day low about 2 trading days ago | 2 sessions |
| All-time high | its highest closing price on record is $100.84 (set on 2025-10-16) | $100.84 |
| Given back of the 52-week move | over the past year its closes ranged ($84.08 to $99.72), and it has recovered roughly a third of its fall from last year’s high — 38% of it. Chart-watchers call 61.8%-65% given back the "golden pocket" — for this company that is $93.75 to $94.25. It is watched widely enough that orders cluster there, which is the honest reason it matters; it is not a forecast. | 38.5% |
| From the all-time high | it is 10.7% below its all-time high | -10.7% |
| Nearest price level | it is trading 0.6% below a resistance level at $90.64 — a price it turned at 15 times since 2024-09-05, most recently on 2026-08-11. Since 2024-08-26 it has 2 such levels below the current price and 4 above. Levels like these describe where the price has reversed or paused before; they are not a forecast of where it will go. | +0.6% |
| All-time low | its lowest closing price on record is $12.14 (set on 1997-04-24) | $12.14 |
| Above the all-time low | it is 642.1% above its all-time low | +642.1% |
Volatility
5
| Band width vs its own 6 months | day-to-day price swings are wider than usual versus its own recent 6-month history (wider than about 72% of it) | 72nd percentile |
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| Typical daily range | in a typical session it travels about $1.68 between its high and its low — about 1.9% of its price. That is its "average true range" over the last 14 sessions, which also counts the distance from the previous close, so a day that opens well away from yesterday counts as the large move it was | $1.68 |
| Bollinger bands (20-day, ±2σ) | most of its recent trading has stayed between about $89.28 and $96.22 — the "Bollinger bands", a range drawn two standard deviations either side of its 20-day average price, which widens when the stock gets more volatile and narrows when it settles | $89.28 – $92.75 – $96.22 |
| Typical daily range (% of price) | its price moves about 1.9% in a typical session — among the calmest in the catalog. This is the average gap between a session's high and low over the last 14 sessions, counting overnight moves, expressed against the current price so it can be compared with companies trading at any price | 1.9% |
| Stretch from the 200-day average | it is trading 1.4 daily ranges below its 200-day average price (2.6% below it in plain percentage terms) — a way of asking how far it has stretched from its own average in units of how far it normally moves in a day, so a calm company and a jumpy one can be compared on the same scale | 1.4 daily ranges below its 200-day average |
Volume
1
| Volume vs its 30-day average | trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average | 1.77× |
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Analyst
2
| Change in the average price target | analysts have cut their average price target by 0.3% since the prior reading | -0.3% |
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| Change in the consensus rating | the analyst consensus rating is unchanged since the prior reading | unchanged |
Candlestick patterns
1
| Since a doji | 7 sessions ago it opened and closed at almost the same price after trading through a wider range — a "doji", the classic picture of buyers and sellers finishing the session level | 7 sessions ago |
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Price gaps
2
| Gap at the open | it opened on 2026-08-24 0.1% above the previous session's close — an overnight gap, the part of the move that happened while the market was shut, and had not traded back through that level by the close | +0.1% |
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| Gap filled | a 3.6% gap up opened on 2026-06-11 has been "filled" 14 sessions ago — price traded back through the level the gap left behind, and it took 35 sessions to close | 14 sessions ago |
Price streaks
1
| Closing streak | it closed higher in its latest session, after a session that did not close higher — a single up day rather than a run | 1 session up |
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Relative strength
4
| vs market, 1 month | over the past 1 month this stock lagged the market by 10.7 percentage points (the stock lost 7.4% while the market gained 3.3%) | -10.7% |
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| vs market, 3 months | over the past 3 months this stock lagged the market by 7.1 percentage points (the stock lost 4.7% while the market gained 2.4%) | -7.1% |
| vs market, 6 months | over the past 6 months this stock lagged the market by 17.0 percentage points (the stock lost 6.0% while the market gained 11.1%) | -17.0% |
| vs market, 12 months | over the past 12 months this stock lagged the market by 22.9 percentage points (the stock lost 4.6% while the market gained 18.3%) | -22.9% |
Signal agreement
2
| Bullish technical signals | 1 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it is currently in a bullish state: a "golden cross" — its 50-day average is above its 200-day — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 1 of 9 |
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| Bearish technical signals | 5 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bearish state: trading below its 200-day average, a fresh 20-day low, MACD momentum is negative, lagging the market over 6 months, trading below the Ichimoku cloud — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 5 of 9 |
Trend (Ichimoku cloud)
1
| Vs the Ichimoku cloud | trading 4.3% below the Ichimoku cloud — a band drawn from where its own highs and lows sat up to 2026-07-17 and projected forward over today's price, the side traders read as an established downtrend, with the band above acting as the level that would have to be cleared. The band itself is moderate, spanning 2.0% of the share price. | -4.3% |
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Volume-weighted price
2
| Vs this year’s average price paid | the price is 4% below the average price paid so far this year, so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $93.46 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 158 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -3.6% |
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| Vs the average paid since it last reported | the price is 2% below the average price paid since it last reported on 2026-07-30 (its 10-Q), so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $92.31 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 18 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -2.4% |
Price levels it has turned at before
SO last closed at $90.10 on 2026-08-24. Since 2024-08-26 it has turned at 2 prices below its last close and 4 above; the 2 nearest below and the 3 nearest above are listed, nearest first.
| Level | Side | Distance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| $90.64 | Resistance | 0.6% above the last close | turned there 15 times · 2024-09-05 to 2026-08-11 |
| $92.92 | Resistance | 3.1% above the last close | turned there 11 times · 2025-03-10 to 2026-07-21 |
| $87.23 | Support | 3.2% below the last close | turned there 16 times · 2024-09-11 to 2026-01-23 |
| $95.57 | Resistance | 6.1% above the last close | turned there six times · 2024-10-24 to 2026-05-19 |
| $83.68 | Support | 7.1% below the last close | turned there four times · 2024-12-27 to 2025-12-10 |
A level is a price this company reversed or paused at more than once — they describe past behaviour, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Wave structure
Its recent swings can be read as a five-part downward sequence — what Elliott-wave chartists call an impulse — now in leg 4 of five, a pullback against that direction.
This labelling fails — stops being a possible reading at all — if it closes above $93.21.
It is the only labelling that fits these swings, though its proportions are not the textbook ones.
On past moves of this shape the leg has usually ended somewhere between $92.87 and $93.21 — that is where it has tended to end if the count holds, not a forecast of where the price goes.
This reading has stood for 5 trading days, since 2026-08-18.
Read from daily closes as of 2026-08-24.
An Elliott-wave count describes the swings already printed and the level that would disprove it. It is not a forecast, a target, or advice.
Screens: Trading below the 200-day moving average · Broke down to a new 20-day low · trendless / choppy (low ADX) · lagging the market · Least volatile (2% or less typical daily range) · Under water since its last earnings report (below the anchored VWAP) | Learn: moving average · golden cross · adx · rsi · breakout
Based on daily closing prices as of 2026-08-24. Describes past price behavior only — informational, not financial advice.
Analyst consensus
- Consensus ratingHold (2.65 mean, 1=Strong Buy…5=Strong Sell) — 19 analysts
- Mean price target$100.29 range $79.00 – $114.00; median $101.00
Analyst estimates, as of 2026-08-24. These are third-party analyst opinions and price targets, aggregated — not a recommendation, prediction, or advice from stocks-llm. Informational only.
Analyst EPS estimate for SO
- Consensus EPS estimate$1.65 next reporting period, as of 2026-08-24
Change over time is not available yet: it needs two readings of the same reporting period at least 30 days apart, and we have been recording these estimates since 2026-08-04. An estimate for a DIFFERENT quarter is not a revision, so a reading from before the last report is never compared with one after it.
The consensus estimate for the next reporting period, and how it has moved between readings of that SAME period. A change is measured only between readings estimating one period — when a company reports, the consensus moves to the next quarter and the two numbers are not comparable. Informational only, not a forecast and not advice.
Key risks (from latest filing)
["exposure to regulatory oversight by public service commissions (PSCs) and FERC","environmental compliance costs and potential for stricter regulations (e.g., CCR, ELG rules)","operating risks associated with nuclear power plant operations and nuclear regulatory requirements"]
What changed in the latest 10-Q
AI-assisted comparison of SO's 10-Q filed 2026-04-30 against the prior one filed 2025-10-30.
Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
- Added:
- Alabama Power: In December 2025, Alabama PSC issued consent order to keep retail rates stable through 2027 (newer filing, 2026-04-30)
- Alabama Power: On April 2, 2026, State of Alabama enacted legislation prohibiting retail base rate increases before January 1, 2029 for utilities regulated by Alabama PSC (newer filing, 2026-04-30)
- Southern Power: During three months ended March 31, 2026, committed to development projects to upgrade turbines at Franklin and Wansley natural gas facilities, projected to add up to 400 MWs of incremental capacity with commercial operations between Q2 2029 and Q1 2031 (newer filing, 2026-04-30)
- Southern Power: In first quarter 2026 and subsequent to March 31, 2026, placed in service 51 MWs of 200-MW repowering project at Kay wind facility (newer filing, 2026-04-30)
- Southern Power: At March 31, 2026, average investment coverage ratio for generating assets was 97% through 2030 and 88% through 2035, with average remaining contract duration of approximately 12 years (newer filing, 2026-04-30)
- First quarter 2026 net income and EPS comparison data showing $1.36 billion ($1.21 per share) versus $1.33 billion ($1.21 per share) in Q1 2025 (newer filing, 2026-04-30)
- First quarter 2026 retail electric revenues of $4.64 billion versus $4.60 billion in Q1 2025 (newer filing, 2026-04-30)
- Detailed breakdown of retail electric revenue changes including rates/pricing, sales growth, weather, and fuel cost recovery (newer filing, 2026-04-30)
- References to data centers at Georgia Power driving commercial KWH sales increases of 4.6% (newer filing, 2026-04-30)
- Removed:
- Alabama Power: June 5, 2025 Alabama PSC order on Jurisdictional Separation Study and Rate RSE allocations (older filing, 2025-10-30)
- Alabama Power: August 13, 2025 Alabama PSC approval for acquisition of Tenaska Alabama Partners, L.P., which closed September 30, 2025 (older filing, 2025-10-30)
- Alabama Power: October 7, 2025 Alabama PSC order on nuclear PTCs under Internal Revenue Code §45U with base credit amount of $36 million and total claimed credit of $180 million (older filing, 2025-10-30)
- Georgia Power: July 1, 2025 Georgia PSC approval of settlement agreement to extend 2022 ARP through December 31, 2028 with base rates not adjusted in 2026, 2027, or 2028 (older filing, 2025-10-30)
- Georgia Power: 2022 ARP Extension details including retail ROE set point of 10.50%, equity ratio of 56%, and ROE range of 9.50% to 11.90% (older filing, 2025-10-30)
- Georgia Power: September 4, 2025 Georgia PSC approval of 200-MW battery energy storage facility with projected COD in 2027 (older filing, 2025-10-30)
- Georgia Power: July 30, 2025 certification requests for various resources including 7,999 MWs from RFP, extended 50 MWs affiliate PPA with Mississippi Power, 20-year non-affiliate PPA for 930 MWs, five 25-year non-affiliate PPAs totaling 646 MWs, and 260-MW battery energy storage facility (older filing, 2025-10-30)
- Reworded:
- Southern Company Gas segment description changed from 'sale of natural gas' (older) to 'distribution of natural gas' (newer) in Overview section
- Southern Company Gas operating metrics changed from 'Heating Degree Days, customer count, and volumes of natural gas sold' (older) to 'customer count and volumes of natural gas sold' (newer), removing Heating Degree Days
- Notes:
- The newer filing covers Q1 2026 (three months ended March 31, 2026) while the older filing covers Q3 2025 (three months ended September 30, 2025); these are different interim periods with different subject matter in Recent Developments sections
- Page numbering differs significantly between filings (83-84 in newer vs. 97-98 in older), indicating different document lengths or formatting
- The older filing's Recent Developments section was truncated in the provided text, limiting full assessment of all changes in that section
Risk Factors
- Added:
- Added definition: IRA - Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (filed 2026-04-30)
- Added definition: OBBB - One Big Beautiful Bill Act (filed 2026-04-30)
- Added definition: EPS - Earnings per share (filed 2026-04-30)
- Added definition: N/M - Not meaningful (filed 2026-04-30)
- Removed:
- Removed definition: 2024 ELG Rule - Final rule published by the EPA in May 2024 revising the steam effluent guidelines (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: 2024 GHG Rules - Final rules published by the EPA in May 2024 for existing fossil fuel-fired steam electric generating units (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: 2024 Legacy Rule - Final rule published by the EPA in May 2024 related to legacy surface impoundments (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: CCR Rule - Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities final rule published by the EPA in 2015 (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: Clean Air Act - Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: ECCR - Georgia Power's Environmental Compliance Cost Recovery tariff (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: ELG - Effluent limitations guidelines (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: FP&L - Florida Power and Light Company (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: GHG - Greenhouse gas (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: IGCC - Integrated coal gasification combined cycle technology (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: IRS - Internal Revenue Service (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: NCCR - Georgia Power's Nuclear Construction Cost Recovery tariff (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: SAVE - Steps to Advance Virginia's Energy infrastructure replacement program (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed definition: Virginia Commission - Virginia State Corporation Commission (filed 2025-10-30)
- Removed partial text: Virginia Natural Gas definition truncated in older filing
- Reworded:
- 2022 ARP definition changed from 'Alternate Rate Plan approved by the Georgia PSC in 2022 for Georgia Power for the years 2023 through 2025' to 'Georgia Power's Alternate Rate Plan approved by the Georgia PSC in 2022 for the years 2023 through 2025' (filed 2026-04-30)
- 2023 IRP Update definition changed from 'approved by the Georgia PSC in April 2024' to 'approved by the Georgia PSC in 2024' (filed 2026-04-30)
- Form 10-K definition changed from 'for the year ended December 31, 2024' to 'for the year ended December 31, 2025' (filed 2026-04-30)
- SP Wind definition changed from 'in which Southern Power is the controlling partner in a tax equity arrangement' to 'wholly owned by Southern Power as of December 31, 2025, was previously in a tax equity arrangement where Southern Power was the controlling partner through December 31, 2025' (filed 2026-04-30)
- Notes:
- Comparison is limited to the Definitions section; the older filing's Risk Factors section text was not fully provided for comparison
- Page numbers changed from 151 (Item 1A, Item 5, Item 6) and 155 (Signatures) in older filing to 123 and 126 in newer filing
- The newer filing's Risk Factors text appears truncated in the source provided
AI-assisted comparison of two SEC filing sections. It describes wording and theme changes only, makes no materiality, legal, or investment judgement, and is not financial advice. Informational only — not financial advice.
Insider activity (SEC Form 4)
0 open-market purchases and 4 open-market sales by insiders in the last 90 days.
- Last 30 days0 buys · 2 sells ($322797) — 2 selling insiders
- Last 90 days0 buys · 4 sells ($341490) — 2 selling insiders
- Last 180 days0 buys · 6 sells ($3M) — 3 selling insiders
Activity heuristic: net selling (a transparent product heuristic from the counts above, not a prediction or advice)
Most recent open-market transaction: 2026-08-06. As of 2026-08-25.
View full insider trading history → View SEC Form 3/4/5 filingsAsk about SO's insider activity →
Only open-market purchases (SEC code P) and sales (code S) are counted here. Option exercises, vesting/awards, gifts, and shares withheld for taxes are excluded — they are compensation or mechanical, not open-market conviction. Sales may be planned and non-discretionary (e.g. a Rule 10b5-1 plan) and are not necessarily bearish; open-market buying is not a recommendation to buy. Informational only — not financial advice.
Congressional trading disclosures
U.S. House members publicly disclose their own, their spouse's, and dependent children's stock transactions under the STOCK Act. We hold 6 matched disclosures for SO from U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Report filings.
Congressional trading disclosures →Institutional ownership (13F)
6 institutional 13F filers reported holding SO as of 2026-03-31 (quarter-end position, filed within 45 days).
- Distinct 13F filers 6
- Reported shares held 178,676,993
- Reported value $17,245,903,363
reported quarterly holdings change (2025-12-31 → 2026-03-31): 0 new, 3 increased, 3 decreased, 0 exited. Change counts cover only managers that filed 13F reports in BOTH quarters, derived between two quarter-end snapshots — not same-day trades; a single manager is never said to have "bought" or "sold".
Institutional holdings are quarter-end long positions reported on SEC Form 13F-HR, filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends — they are delayed, are not real-time trades, exclude short positions and most non-US securities, and are not investment advice. Any increase/decrease is a reported change between two quarterly snapshots, not a same-day purchase or sale. These are quarter-end snapshots from the 13F filings on SEC EDGAR, filed within 45 days — not real-time, and any change is a difference between two quarterly reports, not a same-day trade. Informational only — not financial advice.
Short interest (FINRA)
SO had 36,366,279 shares of reported short interest as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (delayed, bi-monthly; not real-time).
SO had 3.23% of its shares outstanding sold short as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (percent of FLOAT would be higher — float is not disclosed in the source). FINRA reported 7.35 days to cover at the same settlement.
- Reported short interest (shares) 36,366,279
- Short interest (% of shares outstanding) 3.23%
- Prior settlement (shares) 36,593,870
- Reported change -0.62%
- Days to cover (reported) 7.35
Reported to FINRA as of the 2026-07-31 settlement date. Short interest is reported to FINRA and published on a delayed, bi-monthly schedule (as of a settlement date, disseminated roughly eight business days later) — it is NOT real-time, does not cover every venue or all US trading, and is not a short-squeeze prediction or investment advice. Days-to-cover is the value FINRA reports; percent of float is not shown because the source file carries no share-count denominator — where a percent appears it is of shares OUTSTANDING, the larger base, and is therefore a floor on percent of float. Informational only — not financial advice.
Competitors & peers
- Duke Energy (DUK)
- NextEra Energy (NEE)
- Dominion Energy (D)
- American Electric Power (AEP)
- Entergy (ETR)
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Frequently asked questions
What does Southern Company (SO) do?
Southern Company is a large-scale energy provider that operates through traditional electric operating companies (Alabama Power, Georgia Power, and Mississippi Power), Southern Power, and natural gas distribution utilities. The company generates, transmits, and distributes electricity, and also provides natural gas distribution and related services across several U.S. states. The Southern Company system includes nuclear, natural gas, and renewable energy generating assets.
What sector is Southern Company (SO) in?
Southern Company (SO) is classified in the Utilities sector. Its industry is electric and gas utilities. It trades on NYSE.
Does SO pay a dividend?
Yes — Southern Company (SO) pays a dividend, with an indicated yield of about 4.02% and at least 5 years of non-decreasing per-share dividends (SEC EDGAR XBRL) — we do not hold the year before it, so the real streak may be longer (market data, as of 2026-08-25). Informational only — not financial advice.
Who are Southern Company's (SO) competitors?
Notable peers of Southern Company (SO) include Duke Energy, NextEra Energy, Dominion Energy, American Electric Power and Entergy. This peer set is informational only — not financial advice.
Has there been recent Congressional stock trading in SO?
Yes — we hold 6 matched STOCK Act disclosures for SO from U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Report filings. These are legally-required disclosures (often filed 30–45 days after the trade), may belong to a U.S. House member, their spouse, or a dependent child, and are not an indicator of company performance or investment advice.
Is Southern Company (SO) overbought or oversold right now?
Southern Company (SO) is currently neither overbought nor oversold — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 36, in the neutral middle (as of 2026-08-24). RSI describes recent price momentum, not a forecast — informational only, not financial advice.
Where does stocks-llm's data on SO come from?
Fundamentals and prices come from market data, as of 2026-08-25; company filings and profile facts come from SEC EDGAR. All figures are delayed daily-close data shown with their as-of date — informational only, not financial advice.
Fundamentals: market data, as of 2026-08-25. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-08-24.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & market data, shown with their as-of date.