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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Utilities · CIK 0000092122
$93.82
+3.79% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$102.90B market value
From SOUTHERN CO's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026 · read the filing
SOUTHERN supplies electricity, gas or water. It took in $29.55B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 15 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability and growth needing attention and debt weaker.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
A published bankruptcy-risk model places it in its distress range. This is a statistical reading, not a forecast.
Altman Z-Score 0.70
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From SOUTHERN CO's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
$833.0M → -$2.94B
Cash
$1.07B → $1.64B
Capital spending
$8.96B → $12.74B
Revenue
$26.72B → $29.55B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 19, 2026
Deteriorated: turned negative
$833.0M to -$2.94BCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
SO rose 3.79% on the latest quote. The average Utilities company tracked here moved +1.67%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 2.1 points above its sector and 4.8 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 32 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 32 analysts publishing on this company, 5 say strong buy, 9 say buy, 16 say hold and 2 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 15 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $4.34B last year. Note that after $12.74B of spending on property and equipment, it consumed $2.94B more cash than it generated.
Slowly. Sales grew 10.6% last year.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 69 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 31% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $4.34B and generated $9.80B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 19, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 19, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 19, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 15, 2024Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 16, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $29.55B | $26.72B | $25.25B | $29.28B | $23.11B | +10.6% |
| Operating income | $7.29B | $7.07B | $5.83B | $5.37B | $3.70B | +3.1% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 24.7% | 26.4% | 23.1% | 18.3% | 16.0% | −1.8 pts |
| Interest expense | $3.24B | $2.74B | $2.45B | $2.02B | $1.84B | +18.0% |
| Income before tax | $5.00B | $5.23B | $4.34B | $4.22B | $2.58B | −4.4% |
| Net income | $4.34B | $4.40B | $3.98B | $3.43B | $2.31B | −1.4% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 14.7% | 16.5% | 15.7% | 11.7% | 10.0% | −1.8 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $3.96 | $4.03 | $3.65 | $3.23 | $2.19 | −1.9% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOSOUTHERN CO · this page | 4.7/10 | 5/8 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 100 shares ($8.3K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Stock Vest.
Filed notice to sell 1,400 shares ($124.4K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Stock Vest.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Amended its charter or changed its financial year · Reported another event
Read the filingTook on a direct financial obligation · Sold shares outside a public offering
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 117 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 5 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from SO's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 19, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 4.7 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 6.0 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 20, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 3.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 15, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 6.0 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 16, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 4.7 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 3.3 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
0.70
In the distress zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +53.2%
$1.07B to $1.64BCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Changed: +42.2%
$8.96B to $12.74BCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +10.6%
$26.72B to $29.55BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: −1.8 pts
26.4% to 24.7%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −1.8 pts
16.5% to 14.7%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: +11.7%
$58.77B to $65.65BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Q1 FY2026 against Q1 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Apr 30, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: $531.0M wider
-$1.19B to -$1.72BCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -57.8%
$2.33B to $981.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Changed: +20.8%
$2.44B to $2.94BSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +8.0%
$7.78B to $8.40BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: −1.8 pts
25.9% to 24.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −1.0 pts
17.2% to 16.1%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: +6.7%
$62.94B to $67.15BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: +2.6%
1.10B to 1.13BNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Changed: +5.4%
$736.0M to $776.0MNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
5 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 2.7% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 6.6 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.33 in assets. A bankruptcy-risk model also places it in its distress range.
The trailing P/E is 19.5x — investors pay $19.5 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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| Median of peers | 4.7/10 | — | 9.1% | 13.8% | 24.38x | 2.78x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Filed notice to sell 4,266 shares ($377.9K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT VEST.
Filed notice to sell 100 shares ($8.8K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via PERFORMANCE STOCK VEST.
Filed notice to sell 3,333 shares ($313.4K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via PERFORMANCE STOCK VEST.
Filed notice to sell 100 shares ($9.4K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Performance Stock Vest.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
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Revenue +8.0% · Operating margin −1.8 pts · Free cash flow $531.0M wider — against Q1 FY2025
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Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +10.6% · Operating margin −1.8 pts · Free cash flow turned negative — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
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Read the filingThe first 40 of 117. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-19. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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