Strong financial results for the first quarter of 2025 from Southern Company

May 28, 2025

Profit growth is due to more people using energy and smart investments.

Earnings were better than expected: Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) for Q1 2025 from Southern Company were $1.23, which was higher than what experts had predicted and up from $1.03 in the same quarter last year.

Growth in sales: Sales went up 17 percent; year-over-year to $7.8 billion, which was also better than expected.

Data centre demand goes through the roof: compared to the previous year, sales of electricity to data centres went up by 11 percent;, showing that the sector's growing energy needs.

Plan for strategic investments: The business wants to put $63 billion into investments between 2025 and 2029, with 95 percent; of that going to regulated gas and electric providers.

Dividend increase: Southern Company's board agreed to raise the dividend by $0.08 per share each year, bringing it to $2.96 per share. This is the 24th year in a row that the dividend has grown. This news previously appeared on Investing.com.

For this year the company, located in Atlanta revenue will be around 27.63 billion USD. This is according to the average of the analysts' estimates. This is slightly more than 2025's revenue of 26.72 billion USD.

Historical revenues and results Southwest Airlines plus estimates 2025

The analysts expect for 2025 a net profit of 4.72 billion USD. The majority of the analysts expects for this year a profit per share of 4.28 USD. So the price/earnings-ratio equals 21.01.

Huge dividend Southwest Airlines

Per share the analysts expect a dividend of 2.95 USD per share. Southwest Airlines 's dividend yield thus equals 3.28 percent. The average dividend yield of the electronics companies equals an attractive3.17 percent.

Based on the current number of shares Southwest Airlines 's market capitalization equals 98.82 billion USD.

Historical stock prices Southwest Airlines

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