In today’s recent session, 1.93 million shares of the Southern Company (NYSE:SO) have been traded, and its beta is 0.50. Most recently the company’s share price was $88.14, and it changed around -$0.15 or -0.18% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $96.57B. SO at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $94.45, offering almost -7.16% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $65.80, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 25.35% since then. We note from Southern Company’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 3.98 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 4.38 million.
Southern Company stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.46. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 2 out of 24 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 4 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 11 recommended SO as a Hold, whereas 5 deemed it a Buy, and 2 rated it as Underweight. Southern Company is expected to report earnings per share of 0.54 for the current quarter.
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Southern Company (NYSE:SO) trade information
Instantly SO has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.18% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 88.41 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.31%. The company’s shares are currently up 25.69% year-to-date, but still up 0.70% over the last five days. On the other hand, Southern Company (NYSE:SO) is -5.31% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 18.39 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 4.28 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $80, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -10.18% from its current value. Analyst projections state that SO is forecast to be at a low of $63 and a high of $90.
Southern Company (SO) estimates and forecasts
Southern Company share prices are performing particularly well compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have risen 12.00 percent over the past six months and at a 10.41% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 4.90%. Moreover, analysts have decided to roll up on their fiscal year 2024 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict that it will loss -16.16% in revenue this quarter, and will report an increase of 13.28% in the next quarter. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 5.74%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 4 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 6.25B in revenue for the current quarter. 3 analysts expect Southern Company to make 7.25B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 6.04B and 6.65B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 3.41%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 9.14%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 10.78%. Southern Company earnings are expected to increase by 10.62% in 2024, but the outlook is positive 6.25% per year for the next five years.
SO Dividends
Southern Company’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in December. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 3.25 percent and its annual dividend per share was 2.86. It is important to note, however, that the 3.25% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 3.98 per year.
Southern Company (NYSE:SO)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.16% of Southern Company shares, and 70.69% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 70.80%. Southern Company stock is held by 2403.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.2106% of the shares, which is about 100.76 million shares worth $7.82 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 7.1015% or 77.69 million shares worth $6.03 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Jun 30, 2024. The former held 34.58 shares worth $3.04 billion, making up 3.16% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 28.06 shares worth around $2.47 billion, which represents about 2.56% of the total shares outstanding.
