Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0000092122-25-000026
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 424B2
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 for listing of the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes on any securities exchange and cannot assure holders that an active after-market for the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes will develop or be sustained or that holders of the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes will be able to sell them at favorable prices or at all. |
| No Sinking Fund |     | The Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes do not have the benefit of a sinking fund.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| Use of Proceeds |     | The net proceeds from the sale of the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes will be used by the Company to repay all or a portion of its outstanding commercial paper borrowings, which aggregated approximately $1,207,000,000 as of February 24, 2025. Any remaining net proceeds will be used for other general corporate purposes, which may include investment by the Company in its subsidiaries.                                                                                        |
| Book-Entry      |     | The Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes will be represented by one or more global securities that will be deposited with a custodian for and registered in the name of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee. This means that investors will not receive a certificate for their Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes but, instead, will hold their interest through DTC’s system.                                                                                           |
| Further Issues  |     | The Company may, without the consent of the holders, issue additional junior subordinated notes that will constitute one series and be fungible with the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Governing Law   |     | New York.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Risk Factors    |     | An investment in the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes involves risks. A prospective investor should carefully consider the discussion of risks in “Risk Factors” in this Prospectus Supplement and the other information in this Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying Prospectus before deciding whether an investment in the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes is suitable for such investor.                                                                                 |

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### RISK FACTORS
Investing in the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes involves risk. In addition to the factors described below please see the risk factors in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2024 (the “Form 10-K”), which is