SO: The Southern Company Company Profile & Statistics

The Southern Company Profile

About

Atlanta, GA-based Southern Company is one of the largest utilities in the United States. The company deals with the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. Southern Company serves approximately nine million customers in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and other states, through several wholesale and retail electric and natural gas distribution units, with aggregate generating capacity of 46,000 megawatts, approximately 200,000 miles of electric transmission and distribution lines, with more than 80,000 miles of natural gas pipelines. The company owns Southern Power and Southern Company Gas along with other direct and indirect subsidiaries. Southern Power engages in developing, owning and managing power generation assets, including nuclear energy, renewable energy projects and selling electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market.

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CEO

Christopher C. Womack

Headquarters

30 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30308, UNITED STATES

Auditor

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Share holders

91,209

Employees

28,600

The Southern Company Statistics

Valuation Measures

Market Capitalization²

102.49B

Enterprise Value

171.45B

Enterprise Value/EBITDA(ttm)

12.99

Price to Earnings Ratio(ttm)

22.18

Price to Sales(ttm)

3.58

Price to Book(mrq)

2.71

Price to Cash(ytd)

10.61

Profitability

Gross Margin(ttm)

73.15%

Operating Margin(ttm)

16.19%

Profit Margin(ttm)

15.02%

Return on Equity(ttm)

12.52%

Return on Invested Capital(ttm)

4.27%

Return on Assets(ttm)

3.14%

Income Statement

Revenue(ttm)

28.91B

Revenue Per Share(ttm)

26.26

Gross Profit(ttm)

21.14B

EBITDA(ttm)³

13.20B

Net Income Available to Common(ttm)

4.46B

Diluted EPS(ttm)

4.04

Share Statistics

Beta (5Y Monthly)

0.45

52-Week Change

5.15%

S&P 500 52-Week Change

19.94%

S&P 500 Member

Yes

Stock Optionable

Yes

Total Shares Outstanding¹

1.10B

Dividend Yield

3.15%

Float⁴

1.10B

% Held by Insiders

0.16%

% Held by Institutions

64.10%

Balance Sheet

Total Cash(mrq)

3.34B

Total Cash Per Share(mrq)

3.03

Total Debt(mrq)

72.31B

Total Debt/Equity(mrq)

188.92%

Current Ratio(mrq)

0.75%

Quick Ratio(mrq)

0.59%

Book Value Per Share(mrq)

34.76

Cash Flow

Operating Cash Flow Per Share(ytd)

6.49

Free Cash Flow(ytd)

-1.25B

Table Key

mrq = Most Recent Quarter

ttm = Trailing Twelve Months

ytd = Year To Date

Footnotes

Data provided by Zacks Investment Research or calculated by FXEmpire. All numbers are rounded to the closest decimal.

1 Total Shares outstanding is taken from the most recently filed quarterly or annual report.
2 Market Cap is calculated using total shares outstanding and the most recent share price.
3 EBITDA is calculated using methodology that may differ from that used by a company in its reporting.
4 The float is a measure of the number of shares available for trading by the public. It's calculated by taking the number of issued and outstanding shares minus any restricted stock, which might not be publicly traded.

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