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SOUTHERN CO

FY2025Mkt cap 99.6BDual-class

89.97

-0.13 -0.14%

close 2026-08-25

Assumptions

FCF growth rate

18.0%

Market-implied growth can't be solved here (base FCF is not positive).

No trailing FCF growth rate — the series crosses zero or is too short, and a CAGR through a negative is not a number worth printing.

Projection years

10 yrs

Terminal growth

3.00%

Discount rate (WACC)

6.05%

6.0% derived for this company beta 0.30 (1254d vs the S&P 500) · cost of equity 6.0% = 4.7% risk-free + 0.30 × 4.5% premium · treated as all-equity beta 0.23 clamped to 0.30; cost of debt not derivable; risk-free + 1.5pts assumed; no market cap; capital structure assumed all-equity

Fair value DCF model

$-306.98

-441.2%

Overvalued

Current price $89.97Enterprise value -343.6B

Bear $-454.82 (13.0% growth)Bull $-204.84 (23.0%)

market $89.97

Today's market price is above even the bull case · band = your growth ±5pts, same model

Y10

Present value of each projected year, Y1–Y10

16% the 10 forecast years84% terminal value

Over three quarters of this valuation sits beyond the forecast horizon, in a single assumption about growth forever. Lengthening the projection or lowering terminal growth moves that share.

Same industry · SIC 4911 · trailing P/E for context

NEEP/E 26174.4B CEGP/E 38100.8Bthis P/E: 23

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Assumptions

Fair valuei DCF model

Same industryi · SIC 4911 · trailing P/E for context

Assumptions

Fair valuei DCF model

Same industryi · SIC 4911 · trailing P/E for context

Fair value DCF model

Same industry · SIC 4911 · trailing P/E for context

Fair value DCF model

Same industry · SIC 4911 · trailing P/E for context