Southern Co. (SO): Price and Financial Metrics

SO POWR Grades

• SO scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 67.77% of US stocks.
• SO's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 26 weeks.
• SO's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 6.99% of US stocks).

SO Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $78,786,341,772, SOUTHERN CO has a greater market value than 97% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of SOUTHERN CO's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; only 0.17% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, SO is more volatile than merely 1.02% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to SO, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are CSX, DUK, PCG, D, and IBN.
• Visit SO's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.southerncompany.com.

SO Valuation Summary

• SO's price/sales ratio is 2.9; this is 61.11% higher than that of the median Utilities stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SO's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 10.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SO.

SO Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 20.4%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 14.68%.
• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 34.4%.

Over the past 52 months, SO's revenue has gone up $5.493e+09.

The table below shows SO's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	29,279	6,302	3,524
2022-09-30	27,999	6,105	3,396
2022-06-30	25,859	6,844	3,025
2022-03-31	23,851	6,519	2,290
2021-12-31	23,113	6,169	2,393
2021-09-30	22,463	6,557	2,995

SO's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• SO has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 47.28% of graded US stocks.
• SO's asset turnover comes in at 0.176 -- ranking 73rd of 105 Utilities stocks.
• ATO, ED, and AEP are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SO.

The table below shows SO's key quality metrics over time.