Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000036
Chunk: 95

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 95
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 of two-thirds of our issued and outstanding shares is due to our large retail stockholder base, which typically returns a lower proportion of proxies than the Company’s institutional stockholder base. Over time, there has been a decrease in the percentage of outstanding shares of our stock that are beneficially held by retail, or individual, stockholders and an increase in the percentage of outstanding shares of our stock that are held by institutional investors. We have seen a corresponding increase in the affirmative vote of the issued and outstanding shares supporting this proposal over the same period.

#### Text of Proposed Amendment to the Certificate
The text of the proposed amendment to Article Eleventh of the Certificate, marked to show changes to the current Article Eleventh, is as follows:

ELEVENTH: The corporation reserves the right to increase or decrease its authorized capital stock, or any class or series thereof, or to reclassify the same, and to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in the Certificate of Incorporation or in any amendment thereto, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law, and all rights conferred upon stockholders in said Certificate of Incorporation or any amendment thereto are granted subject to this reservation; provided, however, that the corporation shall not, unless authorized by the affirmative vote in favor thereof of the holders of at least two-thirds a majority of the issued and outstanding common stock of the corporation given at any annual meeting of stockholders or at any special meeting called for that purpose, (a) authorize or create any class of stock preferred as to dividends or assets over the common stock or reclassify the common stock or change the issued shares of common stock into the same or a greater or less number of shares of common stock either with or without par value or reduce the par value of the common stock , or (b) amend, alter, change or repeal [Intentionally Omitted], Article Twelfth, this provision or any provision contained in the Certificate of Incorporation or in any amendment thereto which provides for the vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the issued and outstanding common stock .

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement83
| The Board recommends a voteAGAINST eachproposal |

The following four proposals were submitted by stockholders. If the stockholder proponent of each proposal, or the proponent’s representative, is present at the annual meeting in person and presents the proposal for a vote, then the proposal will be voted on at the meeting.

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