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  • Last Close 67.11
  • Sector Utilities
  • Industry Utilities - Regulated Electric
  • Investment Style Large Value
  • Day Range 66.88  –  67.44
  • Year Range 58.85  –  75.80
  • Market Cap 73.0775 Bil
  • Volume / Avg 990,623.0 /  3.7 Mil
  • Price / Sales 2.66
  • Price / Book 2.39
  • Forward Div Yield 4.01%
  • Trailing Div Yield 4.12%

Morningstar‘s Stock Analysis SO

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Southern Company: Solar Project Acquisitions a Small but Important Growth Opportunity

Travis Miller Strategist

Analyst Note

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We are reaffirming our $68 fair value estimate for Southern Company after it announced two large solar energy project acquisitions in Texas and Wyoming this month.

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Company Profile SO

Business Description

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 13 gigawatts of natural gas generation and renewable energy across the U.S. and sells the electricity primarily under long-term contracts.

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30 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard, Northwest
Atlanta, GA, 30308
Industry Utilities - Regulated Electric
Employees 27,700

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Price
66.9375.9545.4190.61
Currency
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Change
−$0.18 (0.27%) −$0.40 (0.52%) −$0.65 (1.41%) −$0.51 (0.56%)
Market Cap
73.08 Bil39.17 Bil38.06 Bil69.85 Bil
Industry
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FAQs for Southern Co Stock

Yes. SO has a forward dividend yield of 4.11%. 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.

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SO’s market cap is 73.08 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.

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SO’s stock style is Large Value.
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.

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SO’s price/sales is 2.66.
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 23.97.
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 2.39.
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.

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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.