Southern Co

SO

Not Compliant
Exchange
Sector
Headquarters
Group
United States of America
Large cap

Southern Co is not Shariah Compliant because it fails the financial ratios.

1.13%

Impure Income*

-

Purification*

-

Zakat*

Financials

Market cap Group
Analysts' Rating
Price Target (Mean)
Price Target (Low)
Price Target (High)
Total Analysts
Large cap
BUY
$96.54
$73.12
$108.00
21
Revenue Growth
Operating Margin
Net Profit Margin
Quick Ratio
Current Ratio
EPS Growth
7.89%
26.37%
16.47%
0.46
0.67
-25.20%

Shariah Compliance

  • Updated on October 23, 2025
Debt
69.39%
✗
Non-Compliant Assets
0.07%
✓
Impure Income
1.13%
✓

AAOIFI Rulebook:

  • Non-compliant Liabilities (like Interest-based Debt) < 30% of Market cap
  • Non-compliant Assets (like Interest-based Investments) < 30% of Market cap
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: AAOIFI SS21

Debt
81.93%
✗
Impure Income
1.13%
✓

S&P Sharia Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33% of 36-mo avg. Market cap
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: S&P Shariah Methodology

Debt
77.44%
✗
Impure Income
1.13%
✓

Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33% of 24-mo avg. Market cap
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: DJIM Methodology

Debt
46.58%
✗
Cash
0.90%
✓
Cash & AR
2.44%
✓
Impure Income
1.13%
✓

FTSE Shariah Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Cash and interest-bearing items < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Accounts receivable and cash < 50% of Total Assets
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: FTSE RUSSELL

Debt
46.58%
✗
Cash
0.90%
✓
Cash & AR
2.44%
✓
Impure Income
1.13%
✓

MSCI Islamic Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Cash and interest-bearing items < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Accounts receivable and cash < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: MSCI Islamic Indexes

Impure Income Breakdown

-
-
Interest Income
1.13%

Note on Purification and Zakat:

  • Purification and Zakat (for long-term investing) calculations are in USD per share and based on AAOIFI methodology. AAOIFI requires purification every financial period (e.g. quarterly). 
  • If you follow S&P Shariah’s Dividend-only purification, then remove the impure income % from the dividends you receive. No purification required for non-dividend paying stocks, according to S&P Shariah.
  • For Zakat, if you did not invest in a company from a long term perspective, then consider the shares as trading goods and give 2.5% of the total value if a year has passed on them. 

Company Profile

The Southern Company is an energy provider. The Company owns three traditional electric operating companies, Southern Power Company and Southern Company Gas. The traditional electric operating companies-Alabama Power, Georgia Power and Mississippi Power-are operating public utility companies providing electric service to retail customers in three Southeastern states in addition to wholesale customers in the Southeast. The Southern Power Company develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects, and sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market. The Southern Company Gas is an energy services holding company whose primary business is the distribution of natural gas in four states – Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, through the natural gas distribution utilities. Southern Company Gas is also involved in several other businesses that are complementary to the distribution of natural gas.

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