13FPulse
SO

SO SOUTHERN CO/THE

2026Q2 · CUSIP 842587107 · Sector: Utilities

Exiting + falling

Funds leaving and price falling — historically weak for the next six months

Funds that own it
2,319
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net decrease in holders
38
Last quarter 2,357 → now 2,319
How unusual is that
Bottom 20%
Stronger than only 3% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

2,319 funds held SO at the end of 2026Q2, down 38 from the quarter before. Buying is stronger than only 3.2% of US stocks, and the price fell over the same quarter — funds leaving and price weakness at the same time. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $30.2B(YoY +8.3%), the P/E is 22.6x, return on equity is 10.9%. SO has had 28 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +4.4% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Utilities sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=853 2013Q4: holders=880 2014Q1: holders=905 2014Q2: holders=942 2014Q3: holders=918 2014Q4: holders=1034 2015Q1: holders=1031 2015Q2: holders=991 2015Q3: holders=1007 2015Q4: holders=1059 2016Q1: holders=1120 2016Q2: holders=1147 2016Q3: holders=1131 2016Q4: holders=1175 2017Q1: holders=1194 2017Q2: holders=1170 2017Q3: holders=1158 2017Q4: holders=1231 2018Q1: holders=1191 2018Q2: holders=1181 2018Q3: holders=1181 2018Q4: holders=1208 2019Q1: holders=1263 2019Q2: holders=1269 2019Q3: holders=1322 2019Q4: holders=1441 2020Q1: holders=1363 2020Q2: holders=1367 2020Q3: holders=1359 2020Q4: holders=1495 2021Q1: holders=1486 2021Q2: holders=1500 2021Q3: holders=1486 2021Q4: holders=1653 2022Q1: holders=1699 2022Q2: holders=1680 2022Q3: holders=1659 2022Q4: holders=1732 2023Q1: holders=1704 2023Q2: holders=1721 2023Q3: holders=1709 2023Q4: holders=1834 2024Q1: holders=1820 2024Q2: holders=1887 2024Q3: holders=2003 2024Q4: holders=2124 2025Q1: holders=2201 2025Q2: holders=2178 2025Q3: holders=2215 2025Q4: holders=2270 2026Q1: holders=2357 2026Q2: holders=2319 -167 -83.5 +0 +83.5 +167 76716212475 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 28 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q1 Top 5% +4.6%
2025Q4 Top 10% +2.0% -0.7%
2025Q3 Top 10% -3.8% +5.8%
2025Q1 Top 1% in the market +2.3% +6.1%
2024Q4 Top 5% +8.2% +4.5%
2024Q3 Top 1% in the market -6.5% +1.3%
2024Q2 Top 5% +4.9% +0.2%
2023Q4 Top 5% +6.8% +20.7%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
334
Change in large funds
+18
Total value they hold
$79.6B
Funds buying for the first time
144
Funds that sold out entirely
182
Price change that quarter
-5.8%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
25
Funds holding calls (bullish)
23

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
22.6
EPS (TTM)
$3.91
EPS YoY
-6.2%
Revenue (TTM)
$30.2B
Revenue YoY
+8.3%
Net margin
14.5%
ROE
10.9%
Debt ratio
74.6%
FCF (TTM)
-$3.5B
Dividend (TTM)
$2.96
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2022-06-30: EPS 1.03 2022-09-30: EPS 1.35 2022-12-31: EPS -0.09 2023-03-31: EPS 0.79 2023-06-30: EPS 0.76 2023-09-30: EPS 1.29 2023-12-31: EPS 0.78 2024-03-31: EPS 1.03 2024-06-30: EPS 1.09 2024-09-30: EPS 1.39 2024-12-31: EPS 0.48 2025-03-31: EPS 1.21 2025-06-30: EPS 0.79 2025-09-30: EPS 1.54 2025-12-31: EPS 0.38 2026-03-31: EPS 1.20 0B 4.2B 8.4B $B -0.10 0.80 1.69 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 21 15 20 25 2023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-1.7B-207M1.3B 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $-1.7B (2026-03-31)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-03-31 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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