Last updated 31 Jul 2026, 19:51 UTC · updated through the trading day
Southern Company Fear and Greed Index Today
The Southern Company Fear and Greed Index today is 37/100, showing Fear. CFGI measures current Southern Company market sentiment using live market data and proprietary behavioural models. It has been Fear for 2 days. Get the next update by email, free
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The Southern Company Fear and Greed Index today is 37/100 (Fear), up from 36/100 (Fear) yesterday and down 36 points from last week's reading of 73 (Greed).
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Live Southern Company Price and Sentiment Chart
Southern Company price colored by CFGI fear and greed sentiment over the selected daily range.
This daily chart compares Southern Company price movement with live fear, greed, neutral and extreme sentiment readings for the wider market trend.
During the last 894 days, Southern Company sentiment ranged from 10 (Extreme Fear) to 88 (Extreme Greed), with the current reading sitting at 37.
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What Is the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index Today?
The Southern Company Fear and Greed Index today shows whether the current Southern Company market is being driven by fear, neutrality or greed. It gives a live sentiment reading so traders can understand whether conditions are cautious, balanced or risk-on.
Current Southern Company Fear and Greed Index Value
The current Southern Company Fear and Greed Index value is measured from 0 to 100. Lower scores suggest fear, uncertainty or weak confidence in the Southern Company market, while higher scores suggest greed, confidence or stronger risk appetite.
- Daily Southern Company Fear and Greed Index: 37/100, showing Fear for the wider market trend.
- 4-hour Southern Company Fear and Greed Index: 50/100, showing Neutral for the medium-term market trend.
- 1-hour Southern Company Fear and Greed Index: 50/100, showing Neutral for the short-term market trend.
- 15-minute Southern Company Fear and Greed Index: 59/100, showing Neutral for the intraday and day trading.
These multi-timeframe readings help compare long-term, medium-term, short-term and intraday Southern Company sentiment in one place.
What Does the Current Southern Company Fear and Greed Score Mean?
Fear on the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index means the market is leaning cautious. Confidence is weak and participants are more risk-averse, which can signal hesitation or early-stage weakness.
Is the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index a Buy or Sell Signal?
The Southern Company Fear and Greed Index is a market sentiment indicator, not a standalone buy or sell signal. Traders use it to understand whether fear, greed, neutral or extreme sentiment is present, then compare that reading with price action, liquidity and risk management.
Which Southern Company Fear and Greed Timeframe Should I Use?
Use the daily reading for the wider Southern Company market trend, the 4-hour reading for medium-term conditions, the 1-hour reading for short-term sentiment and the 15-minute reading for intraday moves. The best timeframe depends on how long you plan to hold or monitor the market.
How Often Is the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index Updated?
The Southern Company Fear and Greed Index updates through the US trading day across four timeframes (15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily) while the market is open, recalculated from SO's price action and nine other signals.
How to Read the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index Chart
The Southern Company Fear and Greed Index chart shows how Southern Company sentiment has moved through different conditions over time. Use it to compare the current reading with previous periods of fear, greed, neutrality and extreme market conditions.
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How CFGI Calculates the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index
CFGI combines live Southern Company market signals into one fear and greed reading. The modules below show whether the current Southern Company score is being driven by price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity or order book pressure.
Ten signals, one number. Every signal is scored against this asset's own history, so a reading of greed means greedier than usual for this asset, never a raw comparison between one market and another.
Southern Company Fear and Greed Components
- Price Score: 49 (Neutral)
- Volatility Score: 22 (Fear)
- Volume Score: 21 (Fear)
- Impulse Score: 19 (Extreme Fear)
- Technical Score: 50 (Neutral)
- Social Score: 64 (Greed)
- Dominance Score: 41 (Neutral)
- Search Score: 46 (Neutral)
- Whale Score: 50 (Neutral)
- Order Book Score: 26 (Fear)
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Southern Company Market Sentiment Today
Southern Company market sentiment today is shaped by price action, volatility, trading volume, technical indicators, social activity and wider market behaviour. CFGI combines these signals to show how Southern Company sentiment is changing throughout the day.
Compare Southern Company with the whole-market reading on the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index, or every company on the stock fear and greed directory.
What Is Southern Company?
A utility with nerves.
Southern Company is one of the largest power utilities in the United States, serving Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi through regulated electric and gas businesses, and the owner of Plant Vogtle, whose two new reactors made it the biggest nuclear station in the country. Regulated utilities are the textbook defensive holding: rates are set, demand is steady, the dividend is the point. Then the data centres arrived in Georgia, and the calmest business on the board acquired a growth story.
On the CFGI Southern Company fear and greed index the crowd has stopped behaving defensively. It has closed 93 of 273 days in Greed or better and 75 in Fear or worse, including 6 sessions in outright Extreme Fear.
The CFGI read: Southern's low was entirely its own. On 10 December 2025 the score bottomed at 17 out of 100, in Extreme Fear, and the shares bottomed on exactly the same day at $84.08, the lowest price of the window. The board around it was calm: only 72 of the 246 stocks we scored that session sat in Fear or worse. Mood and price agreeing to the day while the wider market shrugs is the signature of a company-specific problem, not a market one.
Southern Company Fear and Greed Index History
Q3 2026 breakdown. The table below updates daily.
That December episode was the deepest of four Extreme Fear sessions running from 5 to 10 December 2025, and it inverted fast. By 13 February 2026 the score had reached 82 out of 100, in Extreme Greed, with the shares at $94.95, and a 12-day run in Greed or better followed from 20 February to 9 March. Only 3 days of the whole window closed in Extreme Greed, so that February reading is as warm as this crowd gets.
The swings are larger than a utility's reputation allows. The score fell 28 points on 6 May 2026, from 56 to 28, then rose 28 points on 4 June, from 25 to 53, and it had already spent 12 consecutive sessions in Fear or worse from 25 August to 10 September 2025. For a business whose revenues are set by regulators, that is a great deal of emotion.
Across the thirteen months the price rose 7.3%, from $90.67 to $97.32, having touched $99.72 on 15 October 2025, and the average score settled at 50 out of 100, the exact middle of the dial. The window closes at 73, in Greed, on 24 July 2026. That is the honest summary of this crowd: a defensive sector reading like a growth one, one of the more interesting things the overall market Fear and Greed Index has picked up this year.
Days by zone, the last 365 days (250 readings)
| Extreme Fear | Fear | Neutral | Greed | Extreme Greed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extreme Fear: 6 | Fear: 71 | Neutral: 100 | Greed: 70 | Extreme Greed: 3 |
Source: CFGI dataset, 250 daily readings across the 365 days to 31 Jul 2026. Updates daily.
For the market Southern Company trades in, see the stock fear and greed index, which scores the whole US market on the same 0 to 100 scale.
The Southern Company (SO) Stock Fundamentals, Analyst Ratings & Financials
Beyond the sentiment score: the fundamentals, analyst views and financials for The Southern Company (SO), for context alongside the live Fear and Greed reading above. Company data via Financial Modeling Prep.
About The Southern Company
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Regulated Electric
- CEO
- Christopher C. Womack
- Employees
- 29,800
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Headquarters
- Atlanta, GA, US
- Listed
- Dec 31, 1981
- Website
- www.southerncompany.com
Key Stats & Valuation
- Market cap
- $106.6B
- P/E (TTM)
- 22.7
- P/B
- 2.54
- Net margin
- 15.43%
- Beta
- 0.33
- Dividend yield
- 3.15%
- 52-week range
- $84 – $101
- 63% of range
Analyst Ratings & Price Target
What Wall Street thinks: the consensus rating and average price target from 34 independent equity analysts covering SO.
Ratings and price targets are aggregated from independent Wall Street analysts (data via Financial Modeling Prep). They are not investment advice or a recommendation from CFGI.
Earnings
Next earnings: Oct 29, 2026 · EPS estimate $1.66 per share.
| Reported | EPS actual | Estimate | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2026 | $1.13 | $1.01 | +12% |
| Apr 30, 2026 | $1.32 | $1.21 | +9% |
| Feb 19, 2026 | $0.55 | $0.56 | -1% |
| Oct 30, 2025 | $1.60 | $1.51 | +6% |
EPS figures are earnings per share (USD), not total company profit.
Financials
Annual revenue, net income and earnings per share. “Growth” is year-over-year revenue.
| Year | Revenue | Growth | Net income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $29.55B | +11% | $4.34B | $3.94 |
| 2024 | $26.72B | +6% | $4.40B | $4.02 |
| 2023 | $25.25B | -14% | $3.98B | $3.64 |
| 2022 | $29.28B | +27% | $3.54B | $3.28 |
| 2021 | $23.11B | +13% | $2.41B | $2.26 |
| 2020 | $20.38B | -5% | $3.13B | $2.95 |
| 2019 | $21.42B | -9% | $4.75B | $4.50 |
| 2018 | $23.50B | +2% | $2.24B | $2.15 |
| 2017 | $23.03B | +16% | $880.0M | $0.84 |
| 2016 | $19.90B | +14% | $2.49B | $2.47 |
| 2015 | $17.49B | -5% | $2.42B | $2.60 |
| 2014 | $18.47B | +8% | $2.03B | $2.18 |
| 2013 | $17.09B | +3% | $1.71B | $1.85 |
| 2012 | $16.54B | -6% | $2.42B | $2.71 |
| 2011 | $17.66B | +1% | $2.27B | $2.57 |
| 2010 | $17.46B | +11% | $2.04B | $2.37 |
| 2009 | $15.74B | -8% | $1.71B | $2.07 |
| 2008 | $17.13B | +12% | $1.81B | $2.26 |
| 2007 | $15.35B | +7% | $1.73B | $2.29 |
| 2006 | $14.36B | +6% | $1.57B | $2.12 |
| 2005 | $13.55B | +16% | $1.59B | $2.14 |
| 2004 | $11.73B | +5% | $1.53B | $2.07 |
| 2003 | $11.19B | +6% | $1.47B | $2.03 |
| 2002 | $10.51B | +4% | $1.32B | $1.86 |
| 2001 | $10.15B | +1% | $1.26B | $1.83 |
| 2000 | $10.07B | +8% | $1.31B | $2.01 |
| 1999 | $9.32B | -2% | $1.28B | $1.86 |
| 1998 | $9.50B | -25% | $977.0M | $1.40 |
| 1997 | $12.61B | +22% | $972.0M | $1.42 |
| 1996 | $10.36B | +13% | $1.13B | $1.68 |
| 1995 | $9.18B | +11% | $1.10B | $1.66 |
| 1994 | $8.30B | -2% | $989.0M | $1.52 |
| 1993 | $8.49B | +5% | $1.00B | $1.57 |
| 1992 | $8.07B | +0% | $953.0M | $1.51 |
| 1991 | $8.05B | +1% | $876.0M | $1.39 |
| 1990 | $7.97B | +6% | $603.5M | $0.96 |
| 1989 | $7.49B | +4% | $846.0M | $1.34 |
| 1988 | $7.24B | +3% | $846.0M | $1.36 |
| 1987 | $7.01B | +2% | $554.4M | $0.96 |
| 1986 | $6.85B | — | $883.0M | $1.59 |
Bar = revenue; green grew, red fell vs the prior year.
Dividends
- Dividend yield
- 3.15%
- Last dividend
- $0.76
- Ex-date
- Aug 17, 2026
Southern Company Fear and Greed Index FAQ
What is the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index today?
The Southern Company Fear and Greed Index today is 37/100 on the daily view, showing Fear. It summarizes live Southern Company market sentiment on a 0 to 100 scale.
How is the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index calculated?
CFGI combines price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity and order book pressure into one Southern Company fear and greed reading.
What is a good Southern Company Fear and Greed Index reading?
There is no single good reading, because the index measures mood rather than value. Extreme Fear below 25 marks the points where sentiment is most washed out, and Extreme Greed above 75 the points carrying the most risk, so what counts as good depends on whether you are buying or selling.
How accurate is the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index?
It reads sentiment accurately and predicts price poorly, and those are two different things. The score reflects what the Southern Company market feels right now across ten live inputs, so treat it as a risk gauge rather than a forecast: it tells you how one-sided the crowd has become, not what happens next.
What does the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index measure?
It measures the emotional state of the Southern Company market on a 0 to 100 scale, from extreme fear at 0 to extreme greed at 100. CFGI builds that number from ten indicators including price action, volatility, volume, momentum, technicals and social sentiment, rather than from price alone.
How do I use the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index?
Most people use it to size risk rather than to time entries. The extreme readings are the useful ones: they flag when the crowd has become one-sided, which is when caution costs least and greed costs most. Read it alongside price and volume, never on its own.
How often is the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index updated?
The Southern Company Fear and Greed Index is updated every 15 minutes, so the live reading can change as Southern Company market conditions shift.
What does a low Southern Company Fear and Greed score mean?
A low score (0 to 39) signals fear or extreme fear, where traders are cautious, risk-averse or pessimistic about the Southern Company market.
What does a high Southern Company Fear and Greed score mean?
A high score (60 to 100) signals greed or extreme greed, where confidence, risk appetite and bullish sentiment dominate the Southern Company market.
Can I get alerts when the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index changes?
Yes. CFGI alerts let you track Southern Company sentiment across daily, 4-hour, 1-hour and 15-minute timeframes. Create alerts for fear, greed, extreme readings or specific Southern Company Fear and Greed Index score changes.
Can I add the Southern Company Fear and Greed Index to my website?
Yes. The CFGI widget lets you embed a live Southern Company Fear and Greed Index on your website, so visitors can see current Southern Company sentiment, live scores and market conditions without you building the data system yourself.
Can I use Southern Company Fear and Greed data in my own app or trading bot?
Yes. The CFGI API gives developers access to Southern Company sentiment data, multi-timeframe fear and greed scores and market signals for dashboards, trading bots, apps and research tools.
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About CFGI
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Every CFGI score is built from 10 indicators: price, volatility, volume, impulse, technical analysis, social media, dominance, search interest, whale movements and order book pressure. The same data powers our API, alerts and embeddable widgets.