Buy This Gold Stock Before the New Year
America is about to see a massive shift in how regular people buy and store gold. Next year, the world's largest gold buyer is expected to launch a new way for everyday Americans to invest in gold with a simple tap on their phone - and it could go live in 2026. When it does, a tiny gold stock trading around $1.60 could explode.
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 1,101,100,000 |
| Shares Float | 1,099,680,000 |
| Shares Short | 38,280,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 9% |
| Institution Holdings | 74.18% |
About Southern Company
The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. The company develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects and sells electricity in the wholesale market; distributes natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee; operates, constructs, and maintains approximately 78,500 miles of natural gas pipelines and 14 storage facilities; and provides gas marketing services, as well as electric services to retail customers. It also offers distributed energy and resilience solutions, and digital wireless communications and fiber optics services, as well as deploys microgrids for commercial, industrial, governmental, utility customers. The Southern Company was incorporated in 1946 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
General
| Name | Southern Company |
| Ticker | SO |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Utilities |
| Industry | Utilities - Regulated Electric |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 28,314 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 100.50 |
| Market Cap | 98,356,200,000 |
| PE Ratio | 22.20 |
| PEG Ratio | 4.07 |
| EBITDA | 13,813,000,192 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 4.28 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 0.63 |
| Profit Margin | 15.42% |
| Operating Margin | 25.22 |
| Return on Assets | 0.03 |
| Return on Equity | 0.11 |
| Revenue | 28.9B |
| Earnings Per Share | 4.02 |
| Revenue Per Share | 26.29 |
| Gross Profit | 14,174,000,128 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.08 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 22.17 |
| Forward PE | 19.53 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 3.39 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 2.81 |
Dividend
Southern Company pays out a dividend of $2.95 per share, with a dividend yield of 3.30%.
SO's next dividend payment will be made to shareholders on December 8, 2025.
They pay out 71.61% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Dec 8, 2025 | $0.74 |
| Sep 8, 2025 | $0.74 |
| Jun 6, 2025 | $0.74 |
| Mar 6, 2025 | $0.72 |
| Dec 6, 2024 | $0.72 |
| Sep 6, 2024 | $0.72 |
| Jun 6, 2024 | $0.72 |
| Mar 6, 2024 | $0.70 |
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