Southern Co. (SO): Price and Financial Metrics

SO POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where SO ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 88.94% of US stocks.
• SO's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• SO's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 18.7% of US stocks).

SO Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $73,507,189,347, SOUTHERN CO has a greater market value than 97.12% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of SOUTHERN CO's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 0.48% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For SO, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 94.04% of US equities we're observing.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to SO, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are DUK, SRE, IBN, SCCO, and D.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Utilities stock, SO's price/sales ratio is 35% higher, now standing at 2.7.
• Over the past 243 months, SO's price/earnings ratio has gone up 6.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SO.

SO Growth Metrics

Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 14.68%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 5.49%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -32.35%.

SO's revenue has moved up $4,213,000,000 over the prior 49 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
2022-09-30	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
2021-06-30	21,845	6,753	3,145

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.