The Southern Company

SO stock score: 59/100

$90.39 · -0.35% · Scored Oct 21, 2026

Technical
58
Fundamental
60
News
36

The reading

The Southern Company (SO) scores 59 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 62% of Utilities stocks and 69% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 58, fundamentals 60.

Among the fundamentals, Earnings Growth (Quarterly) at 99 and EBITDA Margins at 98 score highest, while Free Cash Flow Yield at 2 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 63 and contrarian oscillators 27 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is negative at 36; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 24, 2026 the composite has ranged from 52 to 62, and it is up 1 point over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward SO’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

60

Pulling it up

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)99

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

  • EBITDA Margins98

    EBITDA margins measure operating profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

  • Operating Margins97

    Operating margins measure profitability after operating expenses.

Holding it back

  • Free Cash Flow Yield2

    Free cash flow yield is free cash flow divided by market value: the cash a business generates for each dollar of its price.

  • Price to Sales Ratio22

    Price-to-Sales ratio compares market capitalization to annual revenue.

  • Price to Book Ratio24

    Price-to-Book ratio compares market value to book value.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

54

Pulling it up

  • Know Sure Thing (KST)100

    Know Sure Thing (KST) combines multiple rate-of-change calculations to identify long-term trend reversals.

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

Holding it back

  • Candlestick Patterns0

    Candlestick patterns recognize specific price formations that historically suggest continuation or reversal.

  • Money Flow Index (14)0

    Money Flow Index (14-period) is a volume-weighted RSI that identifies overbought and oversold conditions.

  • Williams %R (28)6

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Social Sentiment (1D)
51
Social Sentiment (3D)
48
Social Sentiment (1W)
48
Global News
17

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly501
Daily543
Weekly522
Monthly622
Quarterly672

Composite score, last 90 days

05010059Jul 24, 2026Oct 21, 2026Jul 24, 2026: 58Jul 25, 2026: 59Jul 26, 2026: 59Jul 27, 2026: 61Jul 28, 2026: 61Jul 29, 2026: 59Jul 30, 2026: 56Jul 31, 2026: 62Aug 2, 2026: 56Aug 3, 2026: 55Aug 4, 2026: 56Aug 5, 2026: 56Aug 6, 2026: 55Aug 7, 2026: 56Aug 8, 2026: 56Aug 9, 2026: 56Aug 10, 2026: 55Aug 11, 2026: 56Aug 12, 2026: 57Aug 13, 2026: 57Aug 14, 2026: 57Aug 15, 2026: 57Aug 16, 2026: 59Aug 17, 2026: 56Aug 18, 2026: 56Aug 19, 2026: 58Aug 20, 2026: 57Aug 22, 2026: 54Aug 23, 2026: 54Aug 24, 2026: 55Aug 25, 2026: 55Aug 26, 2026: 55Aug 27, 2026: 55Aug 28, 2026: 54Aug 29, 2026: 57Aug 30, 2026: 57Aug 31, 2026: 54Sep 1, 2026: 56Sep 2, 2026: 56Sep 3, 2026: 55Sep 4, 2026: 55Sep 5, 2026: 55Sep 6, 2026: 55Sep 7, 2026: 55Sep 8, 2026: 57Sep 9, 2026: 55Sep 10, 2026: 54Sep 11, 2026: 54Sep 12, 2026: 54Sep 13, 2026: 54Sep 14, 2026: 54Sep 15, 2026: 53Sep 16, 2026: 54Sep 17, 2026: 55Sep 18, 2026: 54Sep 19, 2026: 54Sep 20, 2026: 54Sep 21, 2026: 54Sep 22, 2026: 54Sep 23, 2026: 54Sep 24, 2026: 54Sep 25, 2026: 53Sep 26, 2026: 53Sep 27, 2026: 53Sep 28, 2026: 52Sep 29, 2026: 54Sep 30, 2026: 54Oct 1, 2026: 53Oct 2, 2026: 54Oct 3, 2026: 55Oct 4, 2026: 55Oct 5, 2026: 54Oct 6, 2026: 56Oct 7, 2026: 56Oct 8, 2026: 56Oct 9, 2026: 56Oct 10, 2026: 56Oct 11, 2026: 56Oct 12, 2026: 57Oct 13, 2026: 58Oct 14, 2026: 58Oct 15, 2026: 59Oct 16, 2026: 60Oct 17, 2026: 59Oct 18, 2026: 59Oct 19, 2026: 58Oct 20, 2026: 59Oct 21, 2026: 59
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Key facts

Market cap
$104.0B
Sector
Utilities
Industry
Utilities - Regulated Electric
Beta
0.30
Risk grade (1–10)
1
Next earnings
Nov 5, 2026

Utilities - Regulated Electric peers

CompanyMarket capScore
NEE NextEra Energy$163.3B56
DUK Duke Energy$94.1B61
NGG National Grid$81.2B59
AEP American Electric Power Company$69.4B64
D Dominion Energy$54.8B56
ETR Entergy$50.7B62

Questions

What is SO's stock score today?

SO scores 59/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 21, 2026: technical 58, fundamental 60, and news sentiment 36, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is SO a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 59 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the SO score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Utilities ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.