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Company snapshot — Southern Company

SO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Southern Company operates regulated electric utilities that sell power to retail and wholesale customers, alongside natural gas distribution across several states. It builds and runs power generation assets, including battery storage projects, and supplies microgrid systems to commercial, industrial and government customers. It also holds telecommunications investments and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Where it sits in the stack
Southern Company carries no Rubin layer or sleeve seat in our index, so it sits outside the AI build-out stack; it belongs to the regulated electric utilities sector of our wider universe, supplying the power that data-centre and fabrication customers draw on rather than sitting inside the compute chain itself.
Who it is priced against
The diary holds no peer group entry for Southern Company; the utility the market most often names alongside it is Duke Energy.
Why Closelook tracks it
It is a constituent of the S&P 500, but carries no Closelook score and no diary quotes cite it.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether demand from data-centre and semiconductor-fabrication customers shifts the utility's load growth and its generation and grid investment plans.

Southern Company (SO) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for SO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 1 analyst action on the wire · latest: price target by Truist, 2026-08-13

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for SO from the Closelook wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Truist — target 97 from 100 Target cut to $97 from $100 (+4.6% to spot) 2026-08-13

1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Who it is priced against Utilities - Regulated Electric · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Utilities - Regulated Electric · US

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against SO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.46%, quarterly · last 0.76 USD on 2026-08-17

Dividends and capital return

What SO pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.00 USD per share · a 3.46% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +2.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.92 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.76 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-17
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.70 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.86 USD · 2025: 2.94 USD · 2026: 2.26 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-17

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Southern Company (SO)?

Southern Company trades as SO on the US exchange (US) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is SO in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Southern Company is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does SO trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -5.5% vs the 50-day and -5.8% vs the 200-day average, 12.9% below the 52-week high and +4.3% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 2 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Southern Company do?

Southern Company operates regulated electric utilities that sell power to retail and wholesale customers, alongside natural gas distribution across several states. It builds and runs power generation assets, including battery storage projects, and supplies microgrid systems to commercial, industrial and government customers. It also holds telecommunications investments and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. The diary holds no peer group entry for Southern Company; the utility the market most often names alongside it is Duke Energy.

Where does Southern Company sit in the AI build-out?

Southern Company carries no Rubin layer or sleeve seat in our index, so it sits outside the AI build-out stack; it belongs to the regulated electric utilities sector of our wider universe, supplying the power that data-centre and fabrication customers draw on rather than sitting inside the compute chain itself. It is a constituent of the S&P 500, but carries no Closelook score and no diary quotes cite it.

Does Southern Company pay a dividend?

Southern Company has paid 3.00 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 3.46% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.76 USD on 2026-08-17. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Southern Company recently?

The most recent analyst action on Southern Company on the Closelook wire is a price target by Truist on 2026-08-13 (target 97 from 100). 1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelook readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for SO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Utilities - Regulated Electric. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.