SOSouthern Company
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though at the top of its own P/E range.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 22.0 vs a 18.2 median over 40 quarters (+21% vs median).
Sector median 22.4× across 56 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What SO's price assumes
Southern Company trades at 22.0× earnings against 19.7× for the median Utilities - Regulated Electric name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Utilities - Regulated Electric median 19.7 · 1.12× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 3.48
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- Price / book
- 2.63
Price / book · today's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- EV / sales
- 5.92
EV / sales
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 2.63
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 24.5
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 5.92
- Utilities median P/E86 names
- 19.8
- Utilities - Regulated Electric median P/E42 names
- 19.7
- Market capitalisation
- $104.9B
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $54.14 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $71.12 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $86.26 |
| 52-week range | $82.34 – $98.30 |
| Today | $86.15 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Utilities, Regulated Electric
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