Southern Company (NYSE:SO) currently has a daily average trading volume of 5.08M but it saw 9104794 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 98.54B USD, the company’s current market price of $89.66 came falling about -1.29 while comparing to the previous closing price of $90.83. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $94.45 and as low as $76.64.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the KeyBanc Capital Markets which downgraded the stock as “Underweight” in its note to investors issued on May 14, 2025, recommending a price target of $78 for it. JP Morgan upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Underweight” on April 08, 2025 while assigning a price target of $94.
Over the week, SO’s stock price is moving 5.59% up while it is -2.39% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 8.92% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 12.72%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in June, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.01 while estimate for next year EPS is 4.27. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $7.84B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $27.98B and seeing the company making $29.2B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $6.79B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Southern Company’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.10B with 0.10% of that held by the insiders while 71.12% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 4.70% and return on equity (ROE) at 14.01%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 21.50 while having a 19.62 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.37. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.91 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.54. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.20% on average.
