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Latest report (10-Q, filed 2026-04-30). Three months to 2026-03-31 against 2025-03-31: Revenue $8.40B, up 8.0% from $7.78B; Net income $1.36B, up 1.6% from $1.33B; Operating cash flow $1.23B, down 1.9% from $1.25B. Read it line by line, each linked to its source → · Every report →
SOUTHERN CO (SOJC) is a electric services company. Piotroski F-Score 4/6. 17 insider Form 4 filings in the last 90 days. Next earnings projected around 2027-02-18 from SOJC's year-over-year reporting pattern (not yet company-confirmed). Fundamentals from SEC filings; prices are end-of-day.
Every filed figure on this page is free to read, dated and sourced; no column is held back for a paid plan. Each section with figures says what date they are true as of and where they come from.
What’s behind SOJC’s latest move — the size, how unusual the volume is, and the catalyst on the tape, explained and cited to the source.
End-of-day bars · delayed, not real-time · data: Databento · studies computed in your browser from these barsCharting by TradingView Lightweight Charts™
XBRL company facts, SEC EDGAR. TTM = last four reported quarters. Valuation ratios arrive with a price source — we don't fake quotes.
Has SOJC been issuing shares? Offering history →
Volume against its own history: 40% of its last 252 sessions were lighter than the last one, the 2026-11-06 session. End-of-day bars (Databento). Volume detail
FY ending 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31. original 1968 formula; calibrated on manufacturers, read financials/REITs with care
| Free cash flow per share | That year | Year before, same report | Change | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fiscal 2025 | -2.65 USD | 0.76 USD | not a growth rate (a year at or below zero) | 10-K filed 2026-02-19 |
| fiscal 2024 | 0.76 USD | -1.40 USD | not a growth rate (a year at or below zero) | 10-K filed 2025-02-20 |
| fiscal 2023 | -1.40 USD | -1.50 USD | not a growth rate (a year at or below zero) | 10-K filed 2024-02-15 |
| fiscal 2022 | -1.50 USD | -1.33 USD | not a growth rate (a year at or below zero) | 10-K filed 2023-02-16 |
| fiscal 2021 | -1.00 USD | -0.70 USD | not a growth rate (a year at or below zero) | 10-K filed 2022-02-17 |
| fiscal 2020 | -0.70 USD | -1.68 USD | not a growth rate (a year at or below zero) | 10-K filed 2021-02-18 |
| fiscal 2019 | -1.68 USD | -1.03 USD | not a growth rate (a year at or below zero) | 10-K filed 2020-02-20 |
| fiscal 2018 | -1.03 USD | -1.02 USD | not a growth rate (a year at or below zero) | 10-K filed 2019-02-20 |
| fiscal 2017 | -1.02 USD | -2.52 USD | not a growth rate (a year at or below zero) | 10-K filed 2018-02-21 |
| fiscal 2016 | -2.52 USD | 0.66 USD | not a growth rate (a year at or below zero) | 10-K filed 2017-02-22 |
Concepts read: (us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities - us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment) / us-gaap:WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding
| Diluted EPS | That year | Year before, same report | Change | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fiscal 2025 | 3.92 USD | 3.99 USD | -1.8% | 10-K filed 2026-02-19 |
| fiscal 2024 | 3.99 USD | 3.62 USD | +10.2% | 10-K filed 2025-02-20 |
| fiscal 2023 | 3.62 USD | 3.26 USD | +11.0% | 10-K filed 2024-02-15 |
| fiscal 2022 | 3.26 USD | 2.24 USD | +45.5% | 10-K filed 2023-02-16 |
| fiscal 2021 | 2.24 USD | 2.93 USD | -23.5% | 10-K filed 2022-02-17 |
| fiscal 2020 | 2.93 USD | 4.50 USD | -34.9% | 10-K filed 2021-02-18 |
| fiscal 2019 | 4.50 USD | 2.17 USD | +107.4% | 10-K filed 2020-02-20 |
| fiscal 2018 | 2.17 USD | 0.84 USD | +158.3% | 10-K filed 2019-02-20 |
| fiscal 2017 | 0.84 USD | 2.55 USD | -67.1% | 10-K filed 2018-02-21 |
| fiscal 2016 | 2.55 USD | 2.59 USD | -1.5% | 10-K filed 2017-02-22 |
Concepts read: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted
Per filed share, as each report states it. Free cash flow per share is operating cash flow less capital expenditure, over the diluted weighted average share count (or net income over diluted EPS where the count is tagged per share class).
Each year’s change comes from one annual report, which states that year and the year before on the same share basis, and the rate compounds those changes; so a split or a restatement between reports cannot bend it. A rate needs a positive figure at both ends of its window. The DCF above grows total free cash flow and divides by today’s share count, so a per-share rate also carries the buybacks or new shares of those years. These are past figures, not a forecast.
Not shown yet: the P/E range SOJC has traded at, which would set the discount rate and terminal assumptions against its own history. It needs a long daily price history we are not yet licensed to display.
No sensitivity grid: free cash flow is not positive, so the DCF gives no value at any growth or discount rate.
Estimates, not targets. The DCF treats free cash flow as cash flow to equity and divides by shares (the common retail shortcut — it skips net debt and a full WACC), so it’s a sanity-check, not a valuation opinion. All inputs are from SOJC’s SEC filings; change any assumption above and the numbers update live. Educational only — not investment advice.
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As filed. We do not recategorize line items. Each chart plots one XBRL concept exactly as SOJC tagged it: revenue us-gaap:Revenues, net income us-gaap:ProfitLoss, EPS us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted, period by period; a period the company did not tag on its own is left out, not estimated. A figure that disagrees with the filing is a bug in our extraction, not a policy, and we fix it: report a mismatch.
A plain-English read on SOJC plus an auto-SWOT, built from SOJC's SEC filings and market data, every point cited, nothing invented. Educational, not investment advice.
Four AI analysts, a bull, a bear, a risk manager, and a PM, debate SOJC using only the SEC-filing and market facts below. Every point cites its evidence; nothing is invented. This is educational research, not investment advice.
Ask about SOJC’s revenue, earnings, valuation, filings, insiders or Congress trades. Answers come only from the numbered evidence the research brief uses, each citing the items it rests on. A question about one figure is answered by code, free. One that puts figures together is 1 generation (Pro). A question about whether to buy, sell or hold, how much, or where the price goes gets a refusal.
Educational only — not financial advice. Data from SEC EDGAR public filings; no live market data is shown. Figures reflect the company's own reported XBRL facts and may lag.
Closes only, split-adjusted. An average needs that many sessions on file to print. These are measurements, not support, resistance or targets. Chart with studies
Daily closes from 2024-07-01 through 2026-11-06, 592 sessions, split-adjusted. No direction, pattern, entry, target or overbought label: these are measurements. Filings dated on the move days are in SOJC’s filings; the chart with studies draws every figure.
Written by code from 592 end-of-day bars through 2026-11-06. Written by code from the data on file, not by a model. Information, not investment advice: it describes the security and recommends nothing to anyone.
Projected from SOJC's own SEC 8-K filing history — the year-over-year reporting pattern (about 47% land the exact day, about 91% within a week, measured across 4,713 past reports). No analyst estimates and nothing invented, and every confirmed date links to the source it came from, so you can check it yourself. It upgrades the momentSOJC files or announces.
SOJC has rallied after 5 of its last 8 earnings reports.
Each figure is one earnings reaction — how much SOJC moved from the closing price the day before a report to the close the day after. Based on its last 8 reports.
Earnings reactions have been mild.
SOJC has traded higher after most recent earnings releases.
The average is inflated by its most volatile prints (+1.6% and -1.3%).
A more typical earnings reaction has been approximately ±0.5%.
Realized close-to-close history only — no options-implied move, no analyst estimates.
| Reported | Close-to-close |
|---|---|
| 2026-11-05 | -0.6% |
| 2026-07-30 | +0.8% |
| 2026-04-30 | +0.4% |
| 2026-02-19 | +0.1% |
| 2025-10-30 | -1.3% |
| 2025-07-31 | +1.6% |
| 2025-05-01 | -0.0% |
| 2025-02-20 | +0.1% |
Earnings dates are the company's 8-K Item 2.02 filings (SEC). Reactions from Databento EOD.
Nothing on file for SOJC from Nov 9, 2026 to Nov 22, 2026 in these sources: earnings date and filing deadline.
| Event | Result |
|---|---|
| Earnings date | nothing in the window. Nothing in the window. The next report is projected around Feb 18, 2027, after it. |
| Filing deadline | nothing in the window. Nothing in the window: the 10-K for the fiscal year ending Dec 31, 2026, due 60 days after it for a large accelerated filer, falls due Mar 1, 2027, after it. Newest periodic report on file: the 10-Q for the period ending Sep 30, 2026, filed Nov 5, 2026. filing list on EDGAR |
| Ex-dividend date | not covered. Not checked. This attestation does not cover ex-dividend dates. |
This records what these sources returned when they were read. It is not a forecast: a company can announce an event at any time, and ex-dividend dates are not covered. Window 2026-11-09 to 2026-11-22, Eastern dates. Deadlines follow SEC Rules 13a-1 and 13a-13 and Form 20-F, moved past weekends and federal holidays by Rule 0-3.
2 of the 2 checks that ran found nothing new for SOJC. 2 could not run.
Each event check looks back 30 days from the date its own source was stored, read or generated, never from the date this page was built. A check that finds nothing is a measurement of that window, not a forecast, and a check that cannot be dated does not make the claim at all.
The band is the interquartile range of every estimator that could run on SOJC’s filings: the median P/E, P/S, P/B and P/FCF this stock has actually traded at over 9 years of history applied to today’s fundamentals, a two-stage discounted-cash-flow estimate. With four or more estimators we take the interquartile range, so a single wild reading cannot define the band; with two or three we show the full spread, because trimming the tails off three points does not remove noise, it manufactures confidence. We publish a range rather than one number because the estimators genuinely disagree, and averaging that disagreement away would hide the most useful part.
Valuation labels describe only where the price sits against that band:
These labels are positional, not predictive. Premium means the current share price sits above the band computed from SOJC’s own filings and trading history. It does not mean the stock cannot keep rising, that a fall is expected, or that the market has it wrong. Equally, Discount means the price sits below that band — it does not imply the stock is cheap in any meaningful sense, that it is worth buying, or that the market has mispriced it. A company can trade above or below its own historical range for years, and often does, for reasons the range knows nothing about.
The labels describe where today’s price falls against a calculated band. Nothing more than that.
Measured disagreement is our answer to a locked “uncertainty rating”: it is simply how far the estimators spread as a share of the midpoint, tiered Low / Moderate / High / Extreme, with the raw spread shown beside it. A wide band earns a high tier because the answer then depends heavily on which yardstick you pick — that is a finding, not a defect.
Filing health is computed separately and never looks at price. It reads the Piotroski F-Score, the Altman Z-Score and the Beneish M-Score straight from the filings: Sound means none of them flagged, Mixed means one moderate flag, Weak means a distress or manipulation flag, or several softer ones. For banks and insurers it reads Not assessed: all three scores were built on non-financial companies and their authors excluded financials, so for a balance-sheet business they measure the shape of the business rather than its health. Keeping the two axes apart is deliberate — a cheap company with weak filings is a very different object from a cheap company with sound ones, and a single blended verdict would hide which you are looking at.
Why some estimators are skipped. A multiple can be arithmetically computable and still meaningless. GAAP depreciation crushes REIT earnings, so we do not price a REIT off P/E; revenue and free cash flow are not comparable measures for a bank or an insurer, so those are dropped too. We would rather show you the estimators we trust and name every one we withheld, with the reason, than quietly fold in a number we do not believe.
Every number above is arithmetic you can redo. The inputs are SOJC’s own SEC filings and our price history; the formulas are stated on this page. There is no proprietary black box, and there is nothing here you have to take on trust. How often the band rates a stock, and what we have not measured.
This is a computed description of a security against a published formula — not investment advice, not a recommendation, and not a price target. Labels describe SOJC against the band above; they say nothing about whether it suits your circumstances. Historical multiples are not a forecast, and a company can stay outside its own historical range for years. Educational information only.
The fair-value line is SOJC’s own median P/E, P/S, P/B and P/FCF applied to each year’s fundamentals — the price its typical valuation would have implied. Where the solid line sits above the dashed one, the stock traded at a premium to its own history that year; below, a discount. This is a description of past valuation, computed from SOJC’s filings and price history — not a forecast and not investment advice. A stock can trade above or below its own median for years.
Total return including reinvested dividends, from SOJC’s adjusted closing prices. Past return is not a forecast and not investment advice.
Shareholder returns exceeded free cash flow this period — the difference was funded from cash on hand, debt, or asset sales rather than the business itself. Common and sustainable for a period; worth watching if it persists.
Every figure is from SOJC’s SEC cash-flow statement. This describes how management deployed cash last period — it is not a grade of that deployment, not a forecast, and not investment advice. Whether reinvesting, paying down debt, or returning cash was the right call depends on the return each earns, which the filings do not settle. Educational information only.
Free cash flow does not currently cover the dividend. That is the single most important test here, and it failing outweighs the tests that passed.
That said, 19 consecutive years without a cut sits awkwardly against a single weak year of coverage. These tests read one fiscal year, and a one-off item — a legal settlement, a tax payment, an acquisition — can sink coverage without telling you anything about the dividend. Check what happened in this specific year before reading the label as a trend.
2007 $1.59 · 2008 $1.66 · 2009 $1.73 · 2010 $1.80 · 2011 $1.87 · 2012 $1.94 · 2013 $2.01 · 2014 $2.08 · 2015 $2.15 · 2016 $2.22 · 2017 $2.30 · 2018 $2.38 · 2019 $2.46 · 2020 $2.54 · 2021 $2.62 · 2022 $2.70 · 2023 $2.78 · 2024 $2.86 · 2025 $2.94
The score is passed over computable, not passed out of five. If only three tests could be run on SOJC’s filings, the score is out of three and the other two are listed with the reason they were skipped. Scoring a skipped test as a failure would punish a company for how its industry reports, and scoring it as a pass would flatter one.
Labels come from that ratio:
Below three computable tests we publish no label at all and show the individual results instead. A summary drawn from one or two tests is not a summary.
Free cash flow coverage carries the most weight in practice, because dividends are paid in cash and free cash flow is the cash actually available to pay them. The earnings payout ratio is the better-known test but the weaker one — earnings are an accounting figure, dividends are not. Where the two disagree, believe the cash.
Why tests get skipped. A REIT gets no earnings payout ratio: GAAP depreciation on appreciating property understates a REIT’s distributable earnings, which is exactly why the industry reports FFO and why REITs are required to distribute most of their taxable income. Banks and insurers get no leverage test, because deposits are debt and structurally high leverage is what a balance-sheet business is, not a warning sign.
The biggest limitation, stated plainly. The coverage tests read a single fiscal year, and one year of cash flow is far more volatile than a dividend record. A legal settlement, a tax payment or an acquisition can sink coverage in a year that says nothing about the dividend. Where a weak year contradicts a long unbroken record, we say so above rather than letting the harsher number stand alone — but you should still check what happened in that specific year.
The streak is the weakest test here, and it is deliberately listed last. Every dividend that was ever cut had an unbroken streak right up until the year it was cut. A freeze does not break the run — a company that holds its dividend flat through a bad year has not cut it — so raises are counted separately, and a long flat run cannot pass itself off as dividend growth.
Every figure above is from SOJC’s own SEC filings and the arithmetic is stated on this page. This describes what the filings show about the dividend’s coverage — it is not a prediction that the dividend will or will not be cut, not a recommendation, and not investment advice. A covered dividend can still be cut, and a strained one can still be maintained for years. Educational information only.
From SEC Form 4 and 13F filings. Both are backward-looking disclosures on different reporting clocks, and neither predicts price. Educational information only — not investment advice.
Group: Electric Services, the SEC industry code SOJC files under. 11 companies in our stored table file under it.
| Metric | SOJC | Group median | 25th to 75th percentile | Where SOJC sits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net marginnet income divided by revenue, same fiscal year | 15.0%⊙INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceNet margin: net income divided by revenue, same fiscal year Fieldus-gaap:NetIncomeLoss (or ProfitLoss) over us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax (or Revenues, SalesRevenueNet) As offiscal year ended 2025-12-31; stored 2026-10-17 How15.0%, arithmetic on two figures from the company's newest annual report as our valuation history stored it. The stored table does not carry that report's accession, so the company's XBRL payload is linked instead. Open the source document → | 12.6%⊙INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceNet margin across the 11 companies filing under SEC SIC "Electric Services" in our stored table As offiscal year ended 2025-12-31 HowEach company's net income divided by revenue, same fiscal year, from its newest annual report as stored. The median is the middle value; the 25th to 75th percentile is the middle half, linear between ranks. A group prints from 6 companies with the figure. | 8.5% to 16.0% | higher than 7 of the 10 otherspercentile 70 |
| Free cash flow marginoperating cash flow less capital expenditure, divided by revenue, same fiscal year | -10.1%⊙INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceFree cash flow margin: operating cash flow less capital expenditure, divided by revenue, same fiscal year Fieldus-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities less us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment (or PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets), over revenue As offiscal year ended 2025-12-31; stored 2026-10-17 How-10.1%, arithmetic on two figures from the company's newest annual report as our valuation history stored it. The stored table does not carry that report's accession, so the company's XBRL payload is linked instead. Open the source document → | -0.3%⊙INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceFree cash flow margin across the 9 companies filing under SEC SIC "Electric Services" in our stored table As offiscal year ended 2025-12-31 HowEach company's operating cash flow less capital expenditure, divided by revenue, same fiscal year, from its newest annual report as stored. The median is the middle value; the 25th to 75th percentile is the middle half, linear between ranks. 2 of the 11 companies in the group lack the figure and are not counted. A group prints from 6 companies with the figure. | -10.1% to 5.7% | higher than 2 of the 8 otherspercentile 25 |
| Return on equitynet income divided by stockholders’ equity at the fiscal year end | 12.1%⊙INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceReturn on equity: net income divided by stockholders’ equity at the fiscal year end Fieldus-gaap:NetIncomeLoss (or ProfitLoss) over us-gaap:StockholdersEquity As offiscal year ended 2025-12-31; stored 2026-10-17 How12.1%, arithmetic on two figures from the company's newest annual report as our valuation history stored it. The stored table does not carry that report's accession, so the company's XBRL payload is linked instead. Open the source document → | 11.9%⊙INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceReturn on equity across the 11 companies filing under SEC SIC "Electric Services" in our stored table As offiscal year ended 2025-12-31 HowEach company's net income divided by stockholders’ equity at the fiscal year end, from its newest annual report as stored. The median is the middle value; the 25th to 75th percentile is the middle half, linear between ranks. A group prints from 6 companies with the figure. | 9.9% to 14.2% | higher than 6 of the 10 otherspercentile 60 |
One filed metric per row, each a ratio of two figures from the same annual report; no composite and no grade. Percentile is the share of the group’s other companies with a lower figure. A group prints from 6 companies with the figure. The group is drawn from our stored table (the S&P 500 issuers and the companies we cover, each with its newest annual report read), not from every filer in the class. Industry pages show the same medians by group.
Head office: Atlanta, Georgia, United States · the company’s charter and its head office are in different states.
This report is filed jointly with Alabama Power Company, incorporated in Alabama, United States and Georgia Power Company, incorporated in Georgia, United States and Mississippi Power Company, incorporated in Mississippi, United States and Southern Power Company, incorporated in Delaware, United States and Southern Company Gas, incorporated in Georgia, United States. The jurisdiction above is SOUTHERN CO’s own.
Source: the cover page of SOUTHERN CO’s 10-Q filed 2026-11-05, on EDGAR. Filings checked 2026-11-09. Incorporation is where the company’s charter was filed. It is not where the business operates or earns, which no filing cover states. How this works
No tracked institution reported a position in SOJC in the latest 13F round.
Of 9 sales in the last ~6 months, 8 were filed with the Rule 10b5-1 box checked, set up in advance under a written trading plan; 1 was filed without it.
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| Sena Peter P IIIChairman,President & CEO, SNC | SELLplan | $378K | view → |
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| Spainhour Sterling A Jr.EVP & CLO | SELLplan | $313K | view → |
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