Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000036
Chunk: 109

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 109
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 of its shares as a parent holding company or control person in accordance with SEC Rule 13(d)-1(b)(1)(ii)(G) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. held all of its shares as a parent holding company or control person in accordance with SEC Rule 13(d)-1(b)(1)(ii)(G).

According to the filings:

— The Vanguard Group has shared voting power with respect to 1,876,183 of its shares, sole dispositive power with respect to 94,440,157 of its shares and shared dispositive power with respect to 5,165,938 of its shares.

— BlackRock, Inc. has sole voting power with respect to 73,388,665 of its shares and sole dispositive power with respect to all 77,730,437 of its shares.

— State Street Corporation has shared voting power with respect to 43,785,534 of its shares and shared dispositive power with respect to 63,606,390 of its shares.

— JPMorgan Chase & Co. has sole voting power with respect to 47,458,489 of its shares, shared voting power with respect to 552,700 of its shares, sole dispositive power with respect to 55,241,787 of its shares and shared dispositive power with respect to 632,414 of its shares.

(2) Percentage of class owned calculated based on the most recent filings as described in footnote (1) above and total number of shares outstanding on February 14, 2025.

#### Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports
Based on our review of Forms 3, 4 and 5 and written representations furnished to us, we believe that the reports required to be filed by reporting persons during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), were filed on a timely basis, except for (1) a Form 4 for each of Christopher C. Womack and Sloane N. Drake to report the February 2024 vesting of the first tranches of 2023-2025 PRSUs and (2) a Form 4 for each of our 14 independent Directors to reflect the second quarter 2024 issuance of their annual equity grant filed on April 5, 2024, all of which were inadvertently filed late due to an administrative error.

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