—
C+
C+ The full Closelooknet — membership. Open the C+ overview

Southern Company (SO) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

The Closelooknet read

Southern Company operates regulated electric utilities that sell power to retail and wholesale customers, alongside natural gas distribution across several states. It builds and runs power generation assets, including battery storage projects, and supplies microgrid systems to commercial, industrial and government customers.

Detail below: the desk's view, the earnings record, peers and the company snapshot; daily prices on the price-history tab. Research diary readings, not advice.

Pick a ticker to load its detail page.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for SO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 47/100 · S&P 500 fund at 48, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-06
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 60th percentile of the window, -22.8% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index -1.91 · down 2.45 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-06
How it trades on rate days beta 0.55 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How SO has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.55 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Southern Company moved 0.55% on average · correlation 0.30 · higher than 47% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.90 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.17% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.69% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Utilities - Regulated Electric · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Utilities - Regulated Electric · US

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against SO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Southern Company

SO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Southern Company operates regulated electric utilities that sell power to retail and wholesale customers, alongside natural gas distribution across several states. It builds and runs power generation assets, including battery storage projects, and supplies microgrid systems to commercial, industrial and government customers. It also holds telecommunications investments and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Where it sits in the stack
Southern Company carries no Rubin layer or sleeve seat in our index, so it sits outside the AI build-out stack; it belongs to the regulated electric utilities sector of our wider universe, supplying the power that data-centre and fabrication customers draw on rather than sitting inside the compute chain itself.
Who it is priced against
The diary holds no peer group entry for Southern Company; the utility the market most often names alongside it is Duke Energy.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It is a constituent of the S&P 500, but carries no Closelooknet score and no diary quotes cite it.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether demand from data-centre and semiconductor-fabrication customers shifts the utility's load growth and its generation and grid investment plans.

Southern Company (SO) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 4 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Morgan Stanley, 2026-10-21

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for SO from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Morgan Stanley — target 84 from 85 Target cut to $84 from $85 (-7.4% to spot) 2026-10-21
  • Price target BMO Capital — target 98 Target set to $98 (+8.3% to spot) 2026-10-21
  • Price target Jefferies — target 95 from 96 Target cut to $95 from $96 (+6.4% to spot) 2026-10-20

4 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 4 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.25%, quarterly · last 0.76 USD on 2026-08-17

Dividends and capital return

What SO pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.00 USD per share · a 3.25% yield on the 2026-11-06 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-11-06
  • Change on the year +2.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.92 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.76 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-17
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.70 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.86 USD · 2025: 2.94 USD · 2026: 2.26 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-17

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-07

Quick answers

What is Southern Company (SO)?

Southern Company trades as SO on the US exchange (US) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-07.

Is SO in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Southern Company is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-11-07.

Where does SO trade against its moving averages?

Southern Company trades 4.7% above its 50-day and 0.1% below its 200-day moving average (0.8% above its 20-day). As of 2026-11-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Southern Company compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Utilities - Regulated Electric · US), Southern Company (SO) sits 7.3% below its 52-week high, 4.7% above its 50-day average; Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELPC) is 26.3% below, Korea Electric Power Corp ADR (KEP) is 52.2% below, Energy of Minas Gerais Co DRC (CIG-C) is 30.2% below, as of 2026-11-06. Put any of them next to SO in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Southern Company trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Southern Company had a beta of 0.55 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 47% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.17% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-06; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Southern Company do?

Southern Company operates regulated electric utilities that sell power to retail and wholesale customers, alongside natural gas distribution across several states. It builds and runs power generation assets, including battery storage projects, and supplies microgrid systems to commercial, industrial and government customers. It also holds telecommunications investments and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. The diary holds no peer group entry for Southern Company; the utility the market most often names alongside it is Duke Energy. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does Southern Company sit in the AI build-out?

Southern Company carries no Rubin layer or sleeve seat in our index, so it sits outside the AI build-out stack; it belongs to the regulated electric utilities sector of our wider universe, supplying the power that data-centre and fabrication customers draw on rather than sitting inside the compute chain itself. It is a constituent of the S&P 500, but carries no Closelooknet score and no diary quotes cite it. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does Southern Company pay a dividend?

Southern Company has paid 3.00 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 3.25% on the 2026-11-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.76 USD on 2026-08-17. As of 2026-11-06; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Southern Company recently?

The most recent analyst action on Southern Company on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Morgan Stanley on 2026-10-21 (target 84 from 85). 4 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 4 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for SO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

How to use this chart

Toolbar

  • Range — 1M to MAX on daily closes. 1D/5D switch a US stock cell to 5-minute intraday bars; index and foreign cells fall back to 1M daily with a note.
  • Grid — 1×1 up to 2×2. Cells are synchronized: pan or zoom one and the others follow the same dates; the crosshair tracks across all of them. 4 INDICES loads Rubin · HALO · AEI · AW40 side by side.
  • Type / Scale — OHLC, line or area; linear or log price axis.

Picking a series

  • Tap the box in a cell's header to browse every Closelooknet series — headline indices, sub-indices, sectors, layers of all six families — plus the constituents.
  • Or type any ticker (NVDA, 7203.T, ASML.AS …) and press Enter — it charts in the cell straight from our data lake.

Studies

  • Overlays / Oscillators rows toggle the standard set (SMA, Bollinger, RSI, MACD …) per cell.
  • Levels (stock cells) draws the structure engine's support lines — regression bands, pivot cluster, SMA-200, the active fib zone.

Drawing

  • Tap a tool (Trend, Ray, H-Line, Fib, Channel, Rect, Note), then tap the chart once per point — the shape follows your finger or cursor between taps. The chart stops panning while a tool is armed; tap the tool again to release.
  • Drawings save per symbol in this browser and travel between the terminal and the asset page.
  • Delete key removes the selected drawing · Escape cancels a half-placed one · Clear wipes the symbol.

Wave counts

  • Wave places an Elliott count: tap the origin, then each wave end. Press Enter to stop early (inside wave 3 is fine) — dotted ghost targets sketch the remaining waves at guideline ratios.
  • On stocks the scanner's machine count appears automatically in grey — it is fully editable: drag any point, double-tap a label to remove it, Delete to dismiss it for good, Adopt to bring the machine's proposal back.
  • The sequence picker switches 1-5 / A-B-C / A-E / W-X-Y-Z; 1 2 3 cycles the degree; Subdiv starts a one-degree-smaller child count inside a wave.

Sharing

  • Card exports the cell as a branded PNG — chart, drawings and levels exactly as shown.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Utilities - Regulated Electric. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.