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

Southern Company (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 Company (Southern Company) is a gas and electric utility holding company, which serves the Southeast of the US through its subsidiaries. The company generates, distributes, markets and trades electricity. It uses a variety of sources for electricity generation including coal, oil and gas, nuclear and hydro. Southern Company owns electric utilities such as Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power and Mississippi Power, besides Southern Power and Southern Company Gas. The company provides fiber optics and wireless communications services through Southern Telecom and Southern LINC Wireless, respectively. It supplies electricity to retail customers in its operating region and markets generated power in wholesale markets. Southern Company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the US.

Southern Company Key Recent Developments

Feb 24, 2017: Southern Company reschedules Vogtle nuclear power plant's Units 3, 4 commercial operation dates
Feb 22, 2017: Southern Company reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2016 earnings
Feb 02, 2017: Southern Company Becomes a Member of the International Energy Agency Hydrogen Implementing Agreement (IEA HIA)
Dec 14, 2016: Recurrent Energy commissions 200MW Garland solar facility in US
Nov 18, 2016: Southern Company announces new executive leader

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