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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.

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

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

93.28 0.16 +0.17%
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
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Southern Company (The) (SO) valuation and DCF model

What the price implies · reverse DCF

At $93.28 the price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 3.6% a year for ten years.

The industry’s median company is priced for 23.2%.

Price implies
3.6%
Industry median implies
23.2%

The headline discounts the last twelve months’ free cash flow after share-based pay at 9.0% for ten years and grows it 2.5% a year after that, the same for every company, so the figure compares across the market (how a reverse DCF works).

The other way round · DCF
The price needs
3.6% a year for ten years
$93.28
today’s price
Its base case
5.0% a year for five years, then 3.0%
$99.49
6.7% above today’s price

Both are growth in free cash flow after share-based pay, discounted at 9.0%, with 2.5% a year after year ten.

Base case on its own ten-year record Southern Company (The)’s own growth, carried forward

Its assumptions

Powerpack lets you start from a scenario and type over any of them.

The base case’s inputs, which Powerpack lets you change
1 · Cash flow to equity
the four quarters to September 2026, from the 10-Q and 10-K filings, before share-based pay

Yearly growth in cash flow. It usually slows as the company matures.

Today’s price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 3.6% a year for ten years.

2 · Rates

Cost of equity is the yearly return shareholders require, typically 8–11%. Terminal growth is growth forever after year 10, usually near long-run inflation, 2–3%.

3 · Per share

Diluted shares outstanding. Net debt, under Advanced inputs, is taken off before dividing.

Advanced inputs
Free cash flow Revenue and margin
negative is net cash
new shares the cash flow does not pay for

Against Southern Company (The)’s own cost of capital: risk-free 4.3% + beta 0.29 × equity premium 4.5% = 5.6% cost of equity; weighted, 5.6%.

Use 5.6%
Equity value $112.87b ▲ above market cap $105.83b
Base case value per share $99.49 equity value ÷ 1.13b shares
Current price $93.28 market price per share
Above today’s price 6.7% upside at the base case’s assumptions

How we got there$82.47b 10 years of cash to equity+$101.77b terminal value−$71.37b net debt=$112.87b equity value÷1.13b shares=$99.49 per share

Valuation against its own history

Today’s multiple against its 5- and 10-year averages and the industry median (Utilities Regulated Electric).

Multiple Current 5Y avg 10Y avg vs 10Y avg Industry median vs industry 10Y range
P/E 21.25× 21.04× 24.66× 14% below 19.45× 9% above
P/FCF — 102.50× 102.50× — 45.34× —
P/B 2.41× 2.36× 2.15× 12% above 1.82× 32% above
EV/EBITDA 12.69× 12.80× 13.02× 2% below 12.40× 2% above
EV/Sales 5.75× 5.39× 5.07× 13% above 4.95× 16% above
P/E P/FCF P/B EV/EBITDA EV/Sales
31.21×109.73×188.24×266.76×10Y avg 102.50×2018201920202024

P/FCF has no reading today; its 10-year average is 102.50×.

Every growth rate on this page is the business’s — its cash flow, FFO or dividend — never its share price’s. A discounted-cash-flow model is only as good as its assumptions. Figures from the 10-K and 10-Q filings. Not investment advice.