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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 issued in registered form and in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 The Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes will mature on March 15, 2055.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 The Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes will bear interest (i) from and including the date of original issuance to, but excluding, March 15, 2035 at an annual rate of 6.375% and (ii) from and including March 15, 2035 during each Interest Reset Period at an annual rate equal to the Five-Year Treasury Rate as of the most recent Reset Interest Determination Date, plus 2.069%; provided, that the interest rate during any Interest Reset Period will not reset below 6.375% (which equals the initial interest rate on the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes). |
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| Interest Payment Dates |     | Subject to the Company’s right to defer interest payments as described below, interest on the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes will be payable semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year (each an “Interest Payment Date”), beginning on September 15, 2025.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |

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| Option to Defer Interest Payments                    |     | So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, at the Company’s option, it may, on one or more occasions, defer payment of all or part of the current and accrued interest otherwise due on the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes by extending the interest payment period for up to 10 consecutive years (each period, commencing on the date that the first such interest payment would otherwise have been made, an “Optional Deferral Period”). In other words, the Company may declare at its discretion up to a 10-year interest payment moratorium on the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes and may choose to do so on more than one occasion. A deferral of interest payments may not extend beyond the maturity date of the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes or end on a day other than an Interest Payment Date. |
|                                                      |     | Any deferred interest on the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes will accrue additional interest at a rate equal to the