SO

The Southern Company ·NYSE·Utilities
92.78 live · 2026-08-13 15:59

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -14.7
13.6%
Brown Bear Score
27.4%
Business Conviction Score
21.6%
Position Health Score
0.0%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -2.1% · range 84.08–99.72

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets -1.9%
OCF / assets 6.3%
FCF / revenue 33.2%
Gross margin 48.3%
ROIC 5.9%
Forward P/E 18.8

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +20.2pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-28 before the open · consensus EPS 1.71

Q2 23 revenue: 5.75bnQ3 23 revenue: 6.98bnQ3 23Q4 23 revenue: 6.04bnQ1 24 revenue: 6.65bnQ1 24Q2 24 revenue: 6.46bnQ2 24 net income: 1.20bnQ2 24 EPS: 1.09Q3 24 revenue: 7.27bnQ3 24 net income: 1.53bnQ3 24 EPS: 1.39Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 6.34bnQ1 25 revenue: 7.78bnQ1 25 net income: 1.33bnQ1 25 EPS: 1.21Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 6.97bnQ2 25 net income: 880.00mQ2 25 EPS: 0.79Q3 25 revenue: 7.82bnQ3 25 net income: 1.71bnQ3 25 EPS: 1.54Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 6.98bnQ4 25 net income: 416.00mQ4 25 EPS: 0.38Q1 26 revenue: 8.40bnQ1 26 net income: 1.36bnQ1 26 EPS: 1.20Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.38–1.54, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-03-31 8.40bn +8.0% 1.36bn 1.20 1.32 +5.9% 2026-04-30
2025-12-31 (derived) 6.98bn +10.1% 416.00m 0.38 0.55 -6.9% 2026-02-19
2025-09-30 7.82bn +7.5% 1.71bn 1.54 1.60 +3.1% 2025-10-30
2025-06-30 6.97bn +7.9% 880.00m 0.79 2025-07-31

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.3%
On an ordinary two days ±1.0% — filings move it 1.3× as much
Direction 8 up, 3 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +34.3% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-27: price +1.1%Q1 23 revenue -2.5% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-27: price +1.3%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue -20.2% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-03: price -4.4%Q3 23 revenue -16.7% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-02: price +2.9%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +2.6% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-02: price +1.8%Q2 24 revenue +12.4% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-01: price +6.1%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +4.2% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-31: price -0.9%Q1 25 revenue +17.0% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-01: price -0.9%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +7.9% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-31: price +0.1%Q3 25 revenue +7.5% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-30: price +0.6%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +8.0% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-30: price +3.4%

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-03-31 2026-04-30 +8.0% +3.4% -12.4%
2025-09-30 2025-10-30 +7.5% +0.6% -4.3%
2025-06-30 2025-07-31 +7.9% +0.1% -5.8%
2025-03-31 2025-05-01 +17.0% -0.9% -5.0%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Growing — shares issued
Diluted shares 1,128.0M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year +2.1%
Change over 3 years +2.7%
Public float $101.00bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyAt Support Zone
Reference band 90.55 — 93.29
Protective stop 87.04 (Atr, 5.3% risk)
Support 91.46 (8 touches, 1.5% away)
Resistance 94.61 (2.0% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 1.5% above 91.46, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 2.0% below 94.61, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 8 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 5.3% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice BELOW the cloud | periods 5/15/30 (58% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud thickness79% percentile
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 93.49 to 95.14. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages agree with that. The band is unusually wide at the moment, so it marks a broad zone rather than a single level.

Trailing returns

21 days -1.9%
63 days -0.4%
126 days +2.1%
252 days -1.2%
Below 252d high6.9%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway The share price is close to the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is going sideways. The gap between the two has been fairly steady. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State Expanded out of a squeeze
Current band width7.6% of price
Recent tightest4.2% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 98.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.82×
Band 90.68 — 97.81

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 8% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 98% of the time. It has started moving again since, swinging about 1.8 times as widely as during that quiet spell. A stock that has been quiet tends to make its next move look big by comparison, simply because the recent bar was low.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 91.34–97.252026-07-032026-08-13
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger RSI recovery above 50 repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Deteriorating rapidly
  2. Trigger 2 EMA20 reclaim +1.0% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Deteriorating
  4. Trigger 4 MACD repair streak continuation 3 improving bars MACD histogram has improved for 3 consecutive sessions · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 MACD histogram above zero 0.27 gap is improving · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

Binary-event risk flagged

SO: binary-event risk suspected -- Term structure inverted (near 25% IV vs far 19% IV, ratio 1.29); Implied move 3.0% is 0.50x the ATR-expected 6.0% over 8d. Options market is pricing a discrete catalyst; technical breakout signals are unreliable until it resolves.

Implied volatility 25% near (8d) · 19% far (99d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.29× near/far
Historical volatility 15%
Implied vs historical 1.65× — Options are priced well above what the stock has actually done
Implied move ±3.0% by 2026-08-21 — Large relative to this stock's normal daily range
Implied move vs ATR 0.50×
Skew Call Skew (0.60×)
Call wall 120.00 (+29.3% away)
Put wall 65.00 (-29.9% away)
Gamma pin 77.50
  • Term structure inverted (near 25% IV vs far 19% IV, ratio 1.29)
  • Implied move 3.0% is 0.50x the ATR-expected 6.0% over 8d

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs more for the next few weeks than for the next few months. Traders usually pay up like that when they know something is coming soon — results, a court ruling, a regulatory decision. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 3.0% in either direction by 2026-08-21. The overall shape suggests they expect a one-off result that lands either well or badly, rather than a gradual drift.

Chain as at 2026-08-13. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Leadership Cooling

Rotation health 36.0/100; Negative Rotation.

Rotation health 36.0
Rotation strength 68.5
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 95.4 105.2
Stock vs SPY Lagging 80.5 95.5
Sector vs SPY Lagging 81.7 94.6

Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 4/9 (+5.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 48.3% (+10.4)
  • ROIC quality: 5.9% (+0.8)
  • FCF margin quality: 33.2% (+20.0)
  • FCF margin improving by -3.5 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.035) (+2.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 17.8 and rising (+2.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 1.6% (+3.7)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 0.5% (+6.6)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.30 (+5.6)
  • Regime convergence: SUPPORT_RESISTANCE_BOUNCE confidence 60.0/100 (EMERGING) (+12.0)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.63x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.05)
  • Track 1: bearish DI spread (-15.3)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.32)
  • Track 1: price below EMA20 by 1.0%
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -1.0%
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-3.0)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 25.2, 5-day change -13.7
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.04)
  • Track 1: price below EMA50 by 1.6%
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -0.8%
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (2.01)
  • Gross margin improving by -1.7 pts (+-3.0)
  • ROIC improving by -0.2 pts (+-5.0)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.