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.

Revenue
+13.0%
EPS
+14.2%
Free cash flow
+362.1%
Total debt
+1.32%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

92.40 0.94 −1.01%
Market cap
$107.4B
P/E
21.2×
Fwd P/E
21.3×
Dividend yield
3.22%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
0.93
Beneish M
−2.63
Dividend safety
32/100

Southern Company (The) (SO) EV/Sales

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As of 5 November 2026, Southern Company (The) (SO) trades at a EV/Sales of 5.7×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 3.4× (March 2015) to 6.2× (October 2024); the current reading is higher than 84% of that period. That is above the Utilities Regulated Electric industry median of 5.0× and above the Utilities sector median of 4.4×.

EV/Sales, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/Sales Change
FY2025 5.6× (1.41%)
FY2024 5.7× 5.82%
FY2023 5.4× 21.27%
FY2022 4.5× (16.53%)
FY2021 5.3× (3.44%)
FY2020 5.5× 8.07%
FY2019 5.1× 37.46%
FY2018 3.7× (8.33%)
FY2017 4.1× (10.23%)
FY2016 4.5× 15.27%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/Sales Change
Sep 2026 5.4× (9.75%)
Jun 2026 5.9× (0.61%)
Mar 2026 6.0× 6.14%
Dec 2025 5.6× (6.03%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 3.4× High 6.2×
Ten-year median 4.9×
Current reading's percentile 82

EV/Sales against peers

Company EV/Sales
NGG National Grid Transco, PLC compare 1.1×
EXC Exelon Corporation compare 3.8×
AEP American Electric Power Company, Inc. compare 5.2×
DUK Duke Energy Corporation compare 5.7×
SO Southern Company (The) 5.7×
ETR Entergy Corporation compare 5.9×
XEL Xcel Energy Inc. compare 6.0×
D Dominion Energy Inc. compare 6.0×
NEE NextEra Energy, Inc. compare 10.2×
Utilities Regulated Electric industry median 5.0×
Utilities sector median 4.4×
Market median 2.1×

What EV/Sales is

EV/Sales tells an investor how the value of a whole company, counting its debt and cash, compares with the sales it brings in.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ Revenue (TTM)

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