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Southern Company (The)

SO Utilities Utilities Regulated Electric

Southern Company (The)’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $29.6 billion, up 10.6% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue was flat, EPS grew 28.8%, free cash flow grew 23.5% and total debt rose 7.46%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years, operating cash flow growth for three.

91.18 2.00 +2.24%
Market cap
$102.6B
P/E
21.9×
Fwd P/E
20.8×
Dividend yield
3.29%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
0.93
Beneish M
−2.63
Dividend safety
32/100
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Southern Company (The) (SO) Debt to equity

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Southern Company (The)'s debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 June 2026 was 1.7×, down 0.1× from fiscal 2025 (1.8×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.2× (fiscal 2015) to 1.9× (fiscal 2017); the current reading is higher than 91% of that period. That is above the Utilities Regulated Electric industry median of 1.5× and above the Utilities sector median of 1.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 1.8× 6.82%
FY2024 1.7× 2.17%
FY2023 1.7× 6.50%
FY2022 1.6× (0.88%)
FY2021 1.6× 7.47%
FY2020 1.5× 6.88%
FY2019 1.4× (6.71%)
FY2018 1.5× (19.92%)
FY2017 1.9× 10.57%
FY2016 1.7× 36.63%

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Jun 2026 1.7× (4.96%)
Mar 2026 1.8× (1.29%)
Dec 2025 1.8× (1.93%)
Sep 2025 1.9× 3.01%
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 1.2× High 1.9×
Ten-year median 1.6×
Current reading's percentile 91

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
NGG National Grid Transco, PLC compare 1.2×
DUK Duke Energy Corporation compare 1.6×
AEP American Electric Power Company, Inc. compare 1.6×
D Dominion Energy Inc. compare 1.6×
NEE NextEra Energy, Inc. compare 1.6×
XEL Xcel Energy Inc. compare 1.6×
EXC Exelon Corporation compare 1.7×
SO Southern Company (The) 1.7×
ETR Entergy Corporation compare 1.8×
Utilities Regulated Electric industry median 1.5×
Utilities sector median 1.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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