The Southern
$83.47Change from previous close: +0.70%Absolute change: +$0.58
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $96.02B
- Enterprise value
- $172.9B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 20.1
- Forward P/E
- 17.0
- PEG
- 1.96
- Price/book
- 2.43
- Price/sales
- 3.18
- EV/EBITDA
- 12.1
- EV/revenue
- 5.73
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 48.3%
- Operating margin
- 29.6%
- Net margin
- 15.4%
- ROE
- 11.5%
- ROA
- 3.3%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 0.1%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 30.4%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $2.98B
- Total debt
- $77.09B
- Debt/equity
- 1.82
- Current ratio
- 0.79
- Quick ratio
- 0.44
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $3.04
- Dividend yield
- 3.6%
- Payout ratio
- 71.8%
- Ex-dividend date
- August 17, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $98.13
- Median price target
- $101.00
- High price target
- $112.00
- Low price target
- $79.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 19
- Consensus
- Hold
- Forward EPS
- $4.92
- EPS estimate, current year
- $4.59
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.32
- Average volume
- 5.6M
- Shares outstanding
- 1.15B
- Float
- 1.15B
- Institutional ownership
- 74.2%
- Insider ownership
- 0.1%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 2.5%
- Short ratio (days)
- 5.11