The Southern Company (SO)

18 members of Congress have disclosed trading SO — 25 purchases and 10 sales worth an estimated $624,002. Most recent disclosure: Dec 2, 2025.

The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the sale of electricity. The company offers electric service to retail customers and wholesale customers; and energy-related products and services to natural gas choice markets. It also develops, constructs, acquires, owns, operates, and manages power generation assets, as well as battery energy storage projects; sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market; and deploys microgrids for commercial, industrial, governmental, and utility customers. In addition, the company is involved in the distribution of natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee; distributes energy and resilience solutions; and invests in telecommunications. The Southern Company was incorporated in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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• P/E ratio (24.8) — how many dollars you pay for each $1 of SO's yearly profit. That's a fairly normal range.
• ROE (10.99%) — how efficiently the company turns shareholders' money into profit. This is a middling level.
• Profit margin (14.46%) — of every $1 in sales, this is what's left as profit after all costs.
• Dividend yield (3.13%) — the cash payout you'd earn per year as a % of the share price, on top of any price gains.