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Southern Company (SO:NYSE) is an electric utility with 4.4 million customers in one of the fastest-growing regions of the country - the Southeast. SO generates 42,000 megawatts of capacity.

Thirty-five thousand of these megawatts go to places like homes and small businesses that pay under government regulation plans - and 5,500 megawatts of wholesale generation are sold to large companies like steel mills through purchase power agreements.

<> The company is in a unique position because during the past two years, state government regulatory boards have raised electricity rate...
By  Marian Filo   (-24.55%  risk: aggressive)  04/13/09 Comment


Create Your Own Highly Defensive ETF Graphic_rating_buy SO
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Create Your Own Highly Defensive ETF
 
The table at my website link below contains 35 companies included in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Highly Defensive PerformIdex which are based in the U.S., Canada, and Europe with market caps over $10B that are the leaders by market cap in their defensive industry groups. The index includes 23 consumer staples and healthcare companies, with the remaining 12 companies chosen from a variety of other defensive industry groups.
 
 
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By  Mike Havrilla   (+1.04%  risk: conservative)  01/21/09 Comment


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This company has paid very good dividends year after year, very consistant.

 

By  philipwk   (+10.86%  risk: conservative)  12/06/08 Comment


Expanding Defensive Growth Index into Europe Graphic_rating_buy SO
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Expanding Defensive Growth Index into Europe

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<> The accompanying table presents an updated version of the ETFI Highly Defensive PerformIdex, which is expanded to 40 companies with market caps of at least $10B from the industry groups listed below. This defensive growth index is heavily weighted in consumer staples and healthcare and is now structured to include companies based in Europe, in addition to the United States and Canada.

Compared to the previous version, this index has a lower beta and higher average market cap and adds European companie...
By  Mike Havrilla   (+1.04%  risk: conservative)  10/22/08 Comment


Nuclear Power to offset rising power costs Graphic_rating_buy SO
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As the costs of energy and food continue to rise due to interrelated causes, I believe that the Southern Company, with its emphasis on nuclear power, will make large strides ahead of the pack and distinguish itself as an unconventional thinker in what could be the dawn of a new nuclear power age.
By  David Young   (-24.78%  risk: moderate)  04/28/08 Comment



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Dividend - Does anyone have an opinion on Southern Company? What's going to happen to the dividend? Is it solid? Will they continue to raise it in the future?
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