Short interest in Southern Co (NYSE:SO) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 18.81M to 17.88M. This put 1.63% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Southern gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Southern's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 5.80M shares traded per day, it would take 3.08 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.