The Southern Company Q2 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Financial Performance

  • Adjusted EPS for Q2 2025 was 0.92 per share.
    • 0.07 above management’s prior estimate.
    • 0.18 below Q2 2024 results due to milder weather, prior-year asset sale gains, higher operating costs, interest expenses, depreciation and amortization, and current-year tax credit adjustments.
  • Third quarter 2025 adjusted EPS estimate is 1.50 per share.
  • Weather-normal retail electricity sales were up 1.3 percent year‑to‑date versus the first half of 2024.
  • Q2 retail electricity sales rose 3 percent year‑over‑year across all customer classes:
    • Residential up 2.8 percent.
    • Commercial up 3.5 percent.
    • Industrial up 2.8 percent.
    • Data center usage up 13 percent year‑over‑year.
    • Largest industrial segments showing strong growth (transportation and primary metals up 6 percent, paper up 16 percent).

Operational & Market Commentary

  • Southern Company’s system met a 2025 year‑to‑date peak load of nearly 39 gigawatts during an extreme heat wave with no major reliability issues.
  • Economic conditions in the Southeast remain strong, with unemployment and population trends outperforming national averages.
  • Economic development in Q2 included nearly 2 billion dollars in capital investment and more than 6,000 announced new jobs across service territories.

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Operator: Good afternoon. My name is Kevin, and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to The Southern Company Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Greg MacLeod, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir. Greg MacLeod: Good afternoon, and welcome to Southern Company's Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. Joining me today are Chris Womack, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Southern Company; and David Poroch, Chief Financial Officer. In addition, Dan Tucker, who recently announced his retirement as CFO of Southern Company after nearly 3 decades with the company, is also joining us for the call today. Let me remind you that we will make forward-looking statements today in addition to providing historical information. Various important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements including those discussed in the Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and subsequent securities filings. In addition, we will present non-GAAP financial information on this call. Reconciliations to the applicable GAAP measure are included in the financial information we released this morning as well as the slides for this conference call, which both are available on our Investor Relations website at investor.southerncompany.com. At this time, I'll turn the call over to Chris. Christopher C. Womack: Thank you, Greg, and

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