---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000092122-24-000051"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SO"
cik: "0000092122"
company_name: "SOUTHERN CO"
filed_at: "2024-05-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T23:39:41.503942+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southern Company registers up to 50M share ATM equity offering

## Summary
- Enters equity distribution agreement to sell up to 50M shares of common stock at market prices.
- Sales agents include Barclays, BofA, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and others.
- Forward purchase agreements allow forward sellers to hedge by borrowing shares from third parties.
- Shares registered under shelf registration statement No. 333-277138.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000092122-24-000051
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SO
- cik: 0000092122
- company_name: SOUTHERN CO
- filed_at: 2024-05-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212224000051/0000092122-24-000051-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212224000051/so-20240503.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-24-000051.txt

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