Southern Company has grown revenue 1.2% a year over three years and 7.2% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 8.4%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: +1.2% (Utilities - Regulated Electric median +8.1%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +7.2%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +8.4%, earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders. Years of annual history on file: 19, FY2007 to FY2025, as filed.

SOSouthern Company

Utilities

$86.15-3.5% 1Y

$86.15

$82.3552 weeks$98.30

Is it growing?

Watch

Growth is fading: earnings down −6% year on year and operating margin narrowing (−2.4 points).

2 to watch, 1 neutral

Revenue trend+8% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +7% a year.

Earnings trend−6% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing slower than revenue, so the growth is costing something.

Margin direction−2.4 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 23.9% now against 26.3% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Mar 31, 2026.

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is SO growing?

Southern Company has grown revenue 1.2% a year over three years and 7.2% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 8.4%.

+1.2%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Utilities - Regulated Electric median +8.1% · growing slowly · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +7.2%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · +1.2% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +8.4%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue +1.2% · earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders
Years of annual history on file: 19
Years of annual history on file · FY2007 to FY2025, as filed