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The Southern Company (SO)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$94.69 USD

94.69
4,137,712

-0.66 (-0.69%)

Updated Aug 8, 2025 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $94.70 +0.01 (0.01%) 5:34 PM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy23.75%
2Buy17.82%
3Hold9.58%
4Sell5.28%
5Strong Sell2.61%
S&P50011.30%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

  • Value Score A
  • Growth Score A
  • Momentum Score A
  • VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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D Value D Growth B Momentum D VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 35% (85 out of 244)

Industry: Utility - Electric Power

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Utility earnings in the second quarter are expected to have benefited from higher demand from commercial and industrial customers, new rates as well as cost management.

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    Southern Company (SO) Q2 Earnings & Revenues Top Estimates

    Southern Company's (SO) total electricity sales during the second quarter were up 5.7% from the same period last year.

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    Southern Co. (SO) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Surpass Estimates

    Southern Co. (SO) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 6.33% and 4.05%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2021. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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    Utility Stock Q2 Earnings Due on Jul 29: XEL, SO, ES & More

    Utility earnings in the second quarter are expected to have benefited from higher demand from commercial and industrial customers, new rates as well as cost management.

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    Southern Company (SO) Queued for Q2 Earnings: Things to Note

    The Southern Company (SO) beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in three of the last four quarters and missed in the others, delivering an earnings surprise of 10.29%, on average.

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    Southern Co. (SO) Reports Next Week: Wall Street Expects Earnings Growth

    Southern Co. (SO) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.

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    Zacks Industry Outlook Highlights: NextEra Energy, The Southern Co, Xcel Energy, WEC Energy Group and Entergy Corp

    Zacks Industry Outlook Highlights: NextEra Energy, The Southern Co, Xcel Energy, WEC Energy Group and Entergy Corp

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    5 Electric Power Stocks to Watch on Improving Demand

    Electric power utilities like NEE, SO, XEL, WEC and ETR are poised to benefit from the increasing demand for utility services as the fear of the pandemic subsidies with the rollout of vaccines.

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    Why the Earnings Surprise Streak Could Continue for Southern Co. (SO)

    Southern Co. (SO) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.

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    Williams (WMB), Crowheart Ink Upstream JV in Wamsutter Field

    The strategic initiatives of Williams (WMB) to integrate the Wamsutter Field deposits will increase the worth of its midstream and downstream natural gas and NGL infrastructure.

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    Dominion (D) and Berkshire End $1.3B Questar Pipelines Deal

    Dominion Energy (D) decides to terminate the Questar Pipelines deal with Berkshire Hathaway. This deal cancellation is not likely to impact Dominion's operations.

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    4 Utilities to Watch as Tropical Storm Elsa Approaches Georgia

    Florida governor Ron DeSantis declares that 26,000 customers witnessed power outage across Florida due to Elsa. So, the spotlight is on stocks like DUK, NEE, D, and SO.

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    Williams (WMB) Concludes Sequent Energy Acquisition Deal

    Williams' (WMB) natural gas-centric approach is driven by Sequent's operating presence in the United States and Canada, which gives the company a better North American view of the natural gas markets.

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    Southern Company (SO) Plant Vogtle to Undergo Major Inspection

    The special inspection at Southern Company's (SO) Plant Vogtle will determine the cause of the additional remediation work for the electrical cable raceway system at Vogtle Unit 3.

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    Southern Company (SO) Hits Major Milestone for Vogtle Unit 4

    Southern Company's (SO) plant equipment for Vogtle Unit 4 is permanently powered or energized at present, which is required to execute all upcoming testing for the two units.

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    Southern Company (SO) to Miss Revised Deadline for Vogtle Unit 3

    Southern Company's (SO) nuclear expansion of Vogtle Unit 3 could cost an additional $2 billion as it faces an unexpected array of quality issues, which might affect the overall project delivery time.

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    Southern Company (SO) to Miss In-Service Date for Vogtle Unit 3

    Southern Company's (SO) wholly-owned subsidiary Georgia Power delays the start-up of Vogtle Unit 3 nuclear reactor due to problems found during testing.

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    The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Nike, CVS Health, American Tower Corp, The Southern Co, American International Group and Parker-Hannifin Corp

    The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Nike, CVS Health, American Tower Corp, The Southern Co, American International Group and Parker-Hannifin Corp

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    Top Stock Reports for Nike, CVS Health & American Tower

    Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including NIKE, Inc. (NKE), CVS Health Corporation (CVS), and American Tower Corporation (AMT).

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    Alliant (LNT) Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates, Revenues Down Y/Y

    Alliant Energy's (LNT) first-quarter earnings surpass estimates. The company also registers a year-over-year increase in electric and natural gas customer volumes.

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    ALLETE's (ALE) Q1 Earnings Miss Estimates, Revenues Beat

    ALLETE's (ALE) first-quarter earnings miss estimates. However, it registers strong electricity sales volume backed by Other Power supplies load.

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    NRG Energy (NRG) Q1 Earnings Miss Estimates, Revenues Up Y/Y

    NRG Energy's (NRG) first-quarter earnings miss estimates. Its operation are adversely impacted by Winter Storm Uri.

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    Evergy (EVRG) Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates, Revenues Up Y/Y

    Evergy's (EVRG) first-quarter earnings surpass estimates. The company targets to achieve net-zero emissions by 2045.