Southern Company (NYSE:SO) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 0.99% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $92.87.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $91.96, falling within a range of $91.45 and $93.01. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.367 whereas the PE ratio is 22.27 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $94.45, and the low was $77.79. On the whole, SO has fluctuated by 4.94% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Southern Company currently standing at about $102.07 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-01. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.90, with its dividend yield at 3.12%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that SO’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 3.40, with the price of SO currently trading nearly 2.43% and 3.28% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 63.47, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.33% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.40%. Furthermore, Southern Company (SO)’s beta value is 0.36.
A comparison of Southern Company (SO) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. SO showed an intraday change of 0.99% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 12.81%%.
Data on historical trading for Southern Company (NYSE:SO) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 5.03 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 5.03 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 1.10 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.14% of Southern Company’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 68.93% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 21.24 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 3.68. According to the data, the short interest in Southern Company (SO) stood at 193.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 21.53 million. The stock has risen by 19.37% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the SO stock heading into the next quarter.
