Share count +0.6% in a year
Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
New Nov 10, 2026: Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed (S-3ASR) Email me when SO files the next one
Shares offered
Since Nov 13, 2023: 4 shelf registrations.
- Nov 10, 2026 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
- Jun 5, 2026 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
- Feb 16, 2024 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
- Feb 16, 2024 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
Every offering filing →“Under the shelf process, The Southern Company (the “Company”) may sell, in one or more transactions, l common stock (the “Common Stock”), l preferred stock (the “Preferred Stock”), l senior notes (the “Senior Notes”), l junior subordinated notes (the “Junior Subordinated Notes”), l stock purchase contracts (the “Stock Purchase Contracts”), or l stock purchase units (the “Stock Purchase Units”).”
S-3ASR, Jun 5, 2026 ↗
Paid in stock
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no stock-based pay line in the 10-K XBRL, year to Dec 31, 2025; shares sold for $1.6B in cash
Bought back
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no buyback line in the 10-K XBRL, year to Dec 31, 2025
Diluted shares: 1.11B in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 +0.6%2024 +0.4%2023 +1.6%2022 +1.2%
Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How
Where the cash came from and where it went
FY2023 to FY2025, from the cash flow statements in the 10-Ks, added up.
Came from
| Operating cash flow | $27.1B |
| Shares sold | $1.8B |
| Cash on hand used | $397.0M |
| Other, net investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates |
$11.1B |
Went to
| Capital spending | $30.8B |
| Acquisitions | $635.0M |
| Dividends | $9.0B |
Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.
What the 10-Ks show for each CEO's years
The CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table, and what the 10-Ks show for those years.
Christopher C. Womack
- Operating cash flow
- $27.1B
- Capital spending
- $30.8B
- Acquisitions
- $635.0M
- Dividends
- $9.0B
- Diluted shares since FY2022
- +2.6%
- Revenue since FY2022
- +1%
- Debt since FY2022
- +$15.0B
- CEO pay (reported)
- $109.1M
Thomas A. Fanning
- Operating cash flow
- $12.5B
- Capital spending
- $15.5B
- Acquisitions
- $345.0M
- Dividends
- $5.7B
- Diluted shares since FY2020
- +1.5%
- Revenue since FY2020
- +44%
- Debt since FY2020
- +$8.4B
- CEO pay (reported)
- $45.3M
Buybacks, dividends and share count
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | - | $3.0B | - | $1.6B | 1.11B |
| 2024-12-31 | - | $3.0B | - | $143.0M | 1.10B |
| 2023-12-31 | - | $3.0B | - | $36.0M | 1.10B |
| 2022-12-31 | - | $2.9B | - | $1.8B | 1.08B |
| 2021-12-31 | - | $2.8B | - | $73.0M | 1.07B |
From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: dividends = PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock; issuance = ProceedsFromIssuanceOfCommonStock; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.