Southern Co. (SO): Price and Financial Metrics

SO POWR Grades

• SO scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 94.88% of US stocks.
• SO's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• SO's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 20.22% of US stocks).

SO Stock Summary

• SO has a higher market value than 97.69% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $82,680,242,670.
• With a one year PEG ratio of 1,640.85, SOUTHERN CO is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 98.44% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of SOUTHERN CO's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; only 0.49% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to SOUTHERN CO are DUK, IBN, AEP, BTI, and SRE.
• 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 3.2; this is 52.38% higher than that of the median Utilities stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SO's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 11.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SO.

SO Growth Metrics

Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 43.91%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 8.87%.
• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 41.07%.

SO's revenue has moved up $4,017,000,000 over the prior 33 months.

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
2022-06-30	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
2021-06-30	21,845	6,753	3,145
2021-03-31	21,267	7,044	3,385

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.