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Last filing: 8-K (2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation), 2026-08-06. 14 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.", "auditor": { "changes": [], "nonReliance": [], "restatedSince": null }, "metrics": { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-12-31", "revenue": 29553000000, "revenueGrowth1y": 0.104207143924675, "revenueGrowthPerYear": 0.05938668044376261, "yearsOfData": 5, "operatingMargin": 0.24650627685852536, "operatingMarginPrior": 0.2640860857868779, "netMargin": 0.14688864074713226, "operatingCashFlow": 9802000000, "capitalSpending": 12737000000, "freeCashFlow": -2935000000, "researchAndDevelopment": null, "researchShareOfRevenue": null, "cash": 1639000000, "longTermDebt": 71869000000, "longTermDebtChange": 0.13204486028415707, "revenueHistory": [ { "fiscalYearEnd": "2021-12-31", "revenue": 23463000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2022-12-31", "revenue": 29279000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2023-12-31", "revenue": 25253000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2024-12-31", "revenue": 26764000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-12-31", "revenue": 29553000000 } ], "totalEquity": 36016000000, "totalAssets": 155720000000, "equityRatio": 0.23128692525044953, "returnOnEquity": 0.1205297645490893, "dividendsPaid": 3015000000, "payoutRatio": 0.6945404284727021, "dividendPerShare": 2.94, "dividendYearsRising": 18, "dividendCut": false, "priceBased": "Dividend yield, price/earnings and price/book need a share price. 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Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $25.5B and $35.2B next year (method v4.1: its own 4-year record of growth weighed at 50% against $10B+ filers; on a year the method never saw, 83.4% landed inside). In a shock year the stress range is $22.2B to $40.1B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (40 filers, $50M+ revenue, electric services): operating margin 24.7% against a 20.3% median; growth 10.4% against 9.4%.", "peers": { "sic": 4911, "sicDescription": "Electric Services", "calendarYear": 2025, "minRevenue": 50000000, "depth": 4, "group": "4911", "growth": [ 0.0937, 40 ], "opMargin": [ 0.2032, 40 ], "equityRatio": [ 0.2453, 26 ], "returnOnEquity": [ 0.0943, 21 ], "payoutRatio": [ 0.5107, 22 ] }, "summary": "Southern (SO) grew revenue 10.4% in FY2025 to $29.6 billion, operating margin 24.7% against a 20.3% median for electric services, equity 23.1% of assets, and dividend per share up 18 years running. 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SOUTHERN CO against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 20.3%24.7%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 9.4%10.4%Equity of assetsPeer median 24.5%23.1%Return on equityPeer median 9.4%12.1%Payout of profitPeer median 51.1%69.5%Gold tick: the median of 21–26 peers with $50M+ revenue in electric services
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Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit69.5% paid out30.5% keptHanded back per share$2.94up 18 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund3.7%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed10.4%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

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