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The Southern Company (SO)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$88.54 USD

88.54
6,817,395

-2.49 (-2.74%)

Updated Nov 1, 2024 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $88.57 +0.03 (0.03%) 7:58 PM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy24.10%
2Buy17.80%
3Hold9.50%
4Sell2.70%
5Strong Sell2.70%
S&P50011.20%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

Value Score A
Growth Score A
Momentum Score A
VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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C Value C Growth A Momentum C VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 38% (95 out of 250)

Industry: Utility - Electric Power

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Stock Market News For Sep 27, 2018

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      The dark cloud of uncertainty hovering over Southern Company's (SO) Vogtle plant will only dissolve once Oglethorpe gives its final decision.

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          Southern Co. (SO) Down 2.2% Since Last Earnings Report: Can It Rebound?

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            Southern Co.'s Vogtle in Doldrums, Decision Due on Sep 30

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                  Top Analyst Reports for Southern Company, Constellation Brands & Vale

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                          Southern Company (SO) Q2 Earnings Beat on Retail Strength

                          Southern Company's (SO) total retail sales rose 2%, with residential, commercial and industrial sales all improving.

                            Southern Co. (SO) Tops Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

                            Southern Co. (SO) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 15.94% and 7.52%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2018. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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                              Is a Beat Likely for Southern Company (SO) in Q2 Earnings?

                              Southern Company (SO) has gone past the Zacks Consensus Estimate in each of the last four reports.

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