This Is How the AI Bull Market Ends
They say this AI bull market can't go on for much longer...The truth is -- they're half right. The AI bull market as we know it right now will end...But it will then quickly evolve into a new type of market where a new type of AI stock will dominate. You want to be positioning yourself for this new AI bull market...
About Southern Company
The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. The company develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects and sells electricity in the wholesale market; distributes natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee; operates, constructs, and maintains approximately 78,500 miles of natural gas pipelines and 14 storage facilities; and provides gas marketing services, as well as electric services to retail customers. It also offers distributed energy and resilience solutions, and digital wireless communications and fiber optics services, as well as deploys microgrids for commercial, industrial, governmental, utility customers. The Southern Company was incorporated in 1946 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
General
| Name | Southern Company |
| Ticker | SO |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Utilities |
| Industry | Utilities - Regulated Electric |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 28,314 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 91.86 |
| Market Cap | 98,821,900,000 |
| PE Ratio | 22.58 |
| PEG Ratio | 3.13 |
| EBITDA | 12,944,000,000 |
Share Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 1,097,000,000 |
| Shares Float | 1,094,510,000 |
| Shares Short | 18,600,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 17% |
| Institution Holdings | 70.84% |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 91.86 |
| Market Cap | 98,821,900,000 |
| PE Ratio | 22.58 |
| PEG Ratio | 3.13 |
| EBITDA | 12,944,000,000 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 22.58 |
| Forward PE | 21.60 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 3.70 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 3.07 |
Dividend
Southern Company pays out a dividend of $2.95 per share, with a dividend yield of 3.27%.
SO's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on March 6, 2025.
They pay out 71.61% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Mar 6, 2025 | $0.72 |
| Dec 6, 2024 | $0.72 |
| Sep 6, 2024 | $0.72 |
| Jun 6, 2024 | $0.72 |
| Mar 6, 2024 | $0.70 |
| Dec 6, 2023 | $0.70 |
| Sep 6, 2023 | $0.70 |
| Jun 6, 2023 | $0.70 |
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