Southern Co. (SO): Price and Financial Metrics

SO POWR Grades

• SO scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 95.07% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SO is in Sentiment, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• SO's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 19.77% of US stocks).

SO Stock Summary

• SO has a higher market value than 97.75% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $77,758,546,558.
• With a one year PEG ratio of 1,543.18, 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 98.5% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of SOUTHERN CO's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; only 0.45% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to SOUTHERN CO, a group of peers worth examining would be DUK, IBN, AEP, BTI, and SRE.
• SO's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit SOUTHERN CO's official web site, go to www.southerncompany.com.

SO Valuation Summary

• SO's price/sales ratio is 3.1; this is 10.71% higher than that of the median Utilities stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SO's price/earnings ratio has gone up 9.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SO.

SO Growth Metrics

Its year over year price growth rate is now at 15.99%.
• The 3 year price growth rate now stands at 43.91%.
• The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 8.87%.

Over the past 15 months, SO's revenue has gone up $4,592,000,000.

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.