Energy provider serving millions of customers through electric utilities and natural gas distribution companies.
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Company and Market Context
Company Profile & Ownership
The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the sale of electricity. The company offers electric service to retail customers and wholesale customers; and energy-related products and services to natural gas choice markets. It also develops, constructs, acquires, owns, operates, and manages power generation assets, as well as battery energy storage projects; sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market; and deploys microgrids for commercial, industrial, governmental, and utility customers. In addition, the company is involved in the distribution of natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee; distributes energy and resilience solutions; and invests in telecommunications. The Southern Company was incorporated in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Company profile record
Southern Company
Common Stock · Utilities · Utilities - Regulated Electric
Company
- Company / asset
- Southern Company
- Security type
- Common Stock
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Utilities - Regulated Electric
- HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Head office
- 30 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard, NW, Atlanta, GA, United States, 30308
Leadership & scale
- Chief executive
- Mr. Christopher C. Womack
- CEO year born
- 1958
- Full-time employees
- 29.5K
- Fiscal year end
- December
- IPO date
- 1981-12-31
Fundamentals snapshot
- Market Cap
- USD 106.6B
- P/E
- 24.4x
- Revenue (Q1 26)
- USD 8.4B
- Profit (Q1 26)
- USD 1.4B
- Dividend Yield
- 2.2%
- Revenue (FY 25)
- USD 29.6B
- Shares in public float
- 1.1B
- Insider ownership
- 0.1%
Reporting & identifiers
- Symbol
- SO.NYSE
- Listing
- 🇺🇸 United States | Dividend Tax: 30%
- Ticker Currency
- USD
- Income Statement Currency
- USD
- Balance Sheet Currency
- USD
- Cash Flow Currency
- USD
- EPS Currency
- USD
- Contract Type
- SPOT
- ISIN
- US8425871071
- Asset ID
- equity_2d93e113-d967-5620-9994-fd0f1f510899
Ownership
Shares Outstanding
Latest: 1.1B | Max: 1.1B | Min: 765.7M
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