QualityDipStocks / Utilities · Electric utilities
Southern Company SO
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 5% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, 6% over its Market Value. No fair value estimate for now: its free cash flow is negative.
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- $88.79price +6%
- Off 52-wk high
- −5%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta −0.23
1 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $93.71
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$82.35−12.1%
- Market Valueavg paid since Jul 30$88.79−5.3%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$93.71you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$99.11+5.8%
Fair value estimate
No estimate for SO: negative free cash flow. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much SO moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 1.4× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- -0.23
- Volatility
- 18% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- −0.17
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.30
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 1 of 5
Cash returnsDividend yield of 2.9% ($3.1B paid over 12 months, 67% of earnings).
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationFree cash flow is negative (−$3.5B over the last 12 months), so there’s no cash-flow value under the price.
Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only 2.3× over the last 12 months.
GrowthDiluted EPS fell 1.8% in the last fiscal year, below the 6.0% median for the 54 Utilities companies we cover.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: net debt 5.0× EBITDA (limit 3×).
ValuationTrades 5.5% above its Market Value of $88.79, the average price paid since the Jul 30 filing.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Southern Company in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Electric utilities
All fundamentals
P/E 23.0 · FCF yield -3.1% · Sales +6%
Valuation
- P/E
- 23.0×Utilities median 21.2×
- Price / FCF
- n/anegative free cash flow
- FCF yield
- −3.1%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 3.55×
- Price / book
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Market cap
- $107Blisted
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $30.2B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +6.4%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +0.3%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $4.15
- EPS growth, last FY
- −1.8%
- Net income, 12 months
- $4.7B
- Net income growth
- +9%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/agross profit isn't reported (common for service and financial companies)
- Operating margin
- 24.2%
- Net margin
- 15.4%
- FCF margin
- −10.8%
- Return on equity
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- 2.3×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- −$3.3B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- 2.90%$3.1B paid
- Payout ratio
- 67%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- +3.0%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026. From Southern Company’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
MV $88.79
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 67 · 5 days +0.9%
The business
FCF $-3.3B · Sales 0%
- Free cash flow, 12 months−$3.3B
- Free-cash-flow yield−3.1%
- Free-cash-flow margin−11%
- Gross margin48%
- Operating margin24%
- Return on invested capital5%
- Return on equity13%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)0%
- Net debt / EBITDA5.0×
Next report
Nov 5
- DateThu Nov 5, before the open
- Consensus EPS$1.71
- Year-ago EPS$1.60
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
SO is outside our quality screen
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