Southern (NYSE:SO) versus Spine Injury Solutions (OTCMKTS:SPIN) Critical Review

Spine Injury Solutions (OTCMKTS:SPIN) and Southern (NYSE:SO) are both index companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Spine Injury Solutions and Southern, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Spine Injury Solutions	0	0	0	0	N/A
Southern	1	5	6	1	2.54

Southern has a consensus target price of $74.71, suggesting a potential downside of 1.50%. Given Southern’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Southern is more favorable than Spine Injury Solutions.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Spine Injury Solutions and Southern’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Spine Injury Solutions	$30,000.00	1,440.94	-$810,000.00	N/A	N/A
Southern	$25.25 billion	3.29	$3.98 billion	$3.87	19.60

Southern has higher revenue and earnings than Spine Injury Solutions.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

64.1% of Southern shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.4% of Spine Injury Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Southern shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Spine Injury Solutions and Southern’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Spine Injury Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A
Southern	16.74%	12.11%	3.07%

Summary

Southern beats Spine Injury Solutions on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Spine Injury Solutions

Spine Injury Solutions, Inc. provides a suite of revolutionary electrical power generation technologies. The company intends to offer Evirontek Integrated Platform to the cryptocurrency mining industry to reduce the exorbitant high cost of electricity. It also provides spine injury diagnostic services; and owns, develops, and leases the Quad Video Halo video recording system used to record medical procedures. The company is based in Costa Mesa, California.

About Southern

The Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. The company also develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects and sells electricity in the wholesale market; and distributes natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, as well as provides gas marketing services, gas distribution operations, and gas pipeline investments operations. In addition, it owns and operates nuclear, coal, hydro, cogeneration, solar, wind, battery storage, and fuel cell facilities. Further, the constructs, operates, and maintains approximately 77,900 miles of natural gas pipelines and 14 storage facilities with total capacity of 157 Bcf to provide natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The company serves approximately 8.9 million electric and gas utility customers. Further, it develops distributed energy and resilience solutions; deploys microgrids for commercial, industrial, governmental, and utility customers; and offers digital wireless communications and fiber optics services. The Southern Company was incorporated in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.