Southern Company - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review

Southern Company - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review

Summary

Southern Company (Southern) is a US based energy utility company engaged in generation, distribution, retail, marketing, and sale and trading of electricity. The company owns and operates more than 42,000 megawatts (MW) of power generating capacity and has 27,000 miles of transmission and distribution network. The company also provides retail services of electricity in its operating region and also sells its generated power in to wholesale market as well as transmits wholesale power for other providers. It serves more than 4.4 million retail customers in a 120,000 square-mile territory in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi.

Global Markets Direct's Southern Company - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review is an in-depth business, strategic and financial analysis of Southern Company. The report provides a comprehensive insight into the company, including business structure and operations, executive biographies and key competitors. The hallmark of the report is the detailed strategic analysis of the company. This highlights its strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities and threats it faces going forward.

Scope

• Provides key company information for business intelligence needs.
• The company's strengths and weaknesses and areas of development or decline are analyzed. Financial, strategic and operational factors are considered.
• The opportunities open to the company are considered and its growth potential assessed. Competitive or technological threats are highlighted.
• The report contains critical company information - business structure and operations, the company history, major products and services, key competitors, key employees and executive biographies, different locations and important subsidiaries.
• The report provides detailed financial ratios for the past five years as well as interim ratios for the last four quarters.
• Financial ratios include profitability, margins and returns, liquidity and leverage, financial position and efficiency ratios.

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