The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the sale of electricity. The company offers electric service to retail customers and wholesale customers; and energy-related products and services to natural gas choice markets. It also develops, constructs, acquires, owns, operates, and manages power generation assets, as well as battery energy storage projects; sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market; and deploys microgrids for commercial, industrial, governmental, and utility customers. In addition, the company is involved in the distribution of natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee; distributes energy and resilience solutions; and invests in telecommunications. The Southern Company was incorporated in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Research context
Southern Company appears in PyInvesting’s US Stock catalogue. The price history above describes this recorded instrument; it does not by itself identify a company’s business or establish a continuous investment return.
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- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Utilities - Regulated Electric
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The Southern Company is currently in a long term uptrend where the price is trading 0.6% above its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 65.7% cheaper than other stocks from the Utilities sector with a price to sales ratio of 3.3.
The Southern Company's total revenue rose by 4.1% to $5B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has dropped by 12.1% to $391M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow grew by 51.5% to $-600M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, The Southern Company gets an overall score of 4/5.
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