Southern Co (SO) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

April 2021 | 56 pages | ID: S170F107F5FEN
GlobalData

Abstracts

Southern Co (SO) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review provides you an in-depth strategic SWOT analysis of the company’s businesses and operations. The profile has been compiled by GlobalData to bring to you a clear and an unbiased view of the company’s key strengths and weaknesses and the potential opportunities and threats. The profile helps you formulate strategies that augment your business by enabling you to understand your partners, customers and competitors better.

The profile contains critical company information including:

• Business description – A detailed description of the company’s operations and business divisions.
• Corporate strategy – Analyst’s summarization of the company’s business strategy.
• SWOT Analysis – A detailed analysis of the company’s strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.
• Company history – Progression of key events associated with the company.
• Major products and services – A list of major products, services and brands of the company.
• Key competitors – A list of key competitors to the company.
• Key employees – A list of the key executives of the company.
• Executive biographies – A brief summary of the executives’ employment history.
• Key operational heads – A list of personnel heading key departments/functions.
• Important locations and subsidiaries – A list and contact details of key locations and subsidiaries of the company.
• Detailed financial ratios for the past five years – The latest financial ratios derived from the annual financial statements published by the company with 5 years history.
• Interim ratios for the last five interim periods – The latest financial ratios derived from the quarterly/semi-annual financial statements published by the company for 5 interims history.

Highlights

Southern Co (Southern) is an energy holding company. It generates, distributes, markets and trades electricity, and distributes gas. The company produces power using coal, oil and gas, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind and biomass sources. Through power purchase agreements, Southern also sources electricity from various utilities. Southern provides energy technologies and services to electric utilities and large industrial, commercial, institutional and municipal customers; and has investments in telecommunications and leveraged lease projects. It retails energy to customers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. The company has ownership interests in natural gas supply pipelines that connect hydrocarbon basins in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Southern is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the US.

Southern Co Key Recent Developments

Apr 12,2021: Eversource partners with major utilities to increase electric vehicle charging stations across the country
Apr 05,2021: Southern Company expects to achieve interim greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction goal significantly ahead of schedule
Mar 29,2021: Southern Power acquires Deuel Harvest Wind Farm
Mar 02,2021: Duke Energy partners with five other utilities to push for more electric vehicle charging for customers
Mar 02,2021: Southern Company joins other utilities in plans for electric vehicle charging network

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Note: Some sections may be missing if data is unavailable for the company

Contents

SECTION 1 - ABOUT THE COMPANY

Southern Co - Key Facts
Southern Co - Key Employees
Southern Co - Key Employee Biographies
Southern Co - Major Products and Services
Southern Co - History
Southern Co - Company Statement
Southern Co - Locations And Subsidiaries
Head Office
Other Locations & Subsidiaries

SECTION 2 – COMPANY ANALYSIS

Company Overview
Southern Co - Business Description
Business Segment: All Other
Overview
Performance
Key Stats
Business Segment: Southern Company Gas
Overview
Performance
Key Stats
Business Segment: Southern Power
Overview
Performance
Key Stats
Business Segment: Traditional Electric Operating Companies
Overview
Performance
Key Stats
Southern Co - Corporate Strategy
Southern Co - SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis - Overview
Southern Co - Strengths
Southern Co - Weaknesses
Southern Co - Opportunities
Southern Co - Threats
Southern Co - Key Competitors

SECTION 3 – COMPANY FINANCIAL RATIOS

Financial Ratios - Capital Market Ratios
Financial Ratios - Annual Ratios
Performance Chart
Financial Performance
Financial Ratios - Interim Ratios
Financial Ratios - Ratio Charts

SECTION 4 – COMPANY’S POWER, OIL & GAS FINANCIAL DEALS AND ALLIANCES

Southern Co, Power, Deals By Year, 2015 to YTD 2021
Southern Co, Power, Deals By Type, 2015 to YTD 2021
Southern Co, Recent Deals Summary

SECTION 5 – COMPANY’S RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

Apr 12, 2021: Eversource partners with major utilities to increase electric vehicle charging stations across the country
Apr 05, 2021: Southern Company expects to achieve interim greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction goal significantly ahead of schedule
Mar 02, 2021: Duke Energy partners with five other utilities to push for more electric vehicle charging for customers
Mar 02, 2021: Southern Company joins other utilities in plans for electric vehicle charging network
Mar 02, 2021: Georgia Power set to enable electric vehicle fast charging access across major travel corridor
Mar 02, 2021: AEP, Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, Entergy, Southern Company and TVA plan to add electric vehicle fast chargers to connect Gulf Coast, Midwest and Atlantic State Destinations
Feb 18, 2021: Southern Company reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 earnings
Feb 11, 2021: Southern Company takes foundational leadership role in hydrogen R&D effort to achieve net-zero goals
Feb 02, 2021: Southern Company gets high marks for environmental transparency
Jan 28, 2021: Southern Company earns perfect score in Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2021 Corporate Equality Index

SECTION 6 – APPENDIX

Methodology
Ratio Definitions
About GlobalData
Contact Us
Disclaimer

List Of Tables

LIST OF TABLES

Southern Co, Key Facts
Southern Co, Key Employees
Southern Co, Key Employee Biographies
Southern Co, Major Products and Services
Southern Co, History
Southern Co, Subsidiaries
Southern Co, Key Competitors
Southern Co, Ratios based on current share price
Southern Co, Annual Ratios
Southern Co, Annual Ratios (Cont...1)
Southern Co, Interim Ratios
Southern Co, Power, Deals By Year, 2015 to YTD 2021
Southern Co, Power, Deals By Type, 2015 to YTD 2021
Southern Co, Recent Deals Summary
Currency Codes
Capital Market Ratios
Equity Ratios
Profitability Ratios
Cost Ratios
Liquidity Ratios
Leverage Ratios
Efficiency Ratios

List Of Figures

LIST OF FIGURES

Southern Co, Performance Chart (2016 - 2020)
Southern Co, Ratio Charts
Southern Co, Power, Deals By Year, 2015 to YTD 2021
Southern Co, Power, Deals by Type, 2015 to YTD 2021