Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form Type: 11-K
Source: 0000092122-25-000064
Chunk: 10

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form: 11-K
Chunk 10
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 |         |     | **   |     |         |   797,650,883 |
| *                                        |     | The Southern Company                                                                    |     | Common Stock                                        |     |         |     | **   |     |         | 3,064,813,002 |
| *                                        |     | BlackRock                                                                               |     | Interest rates ranging from 3.25% to 10.00%         |     |         |     |      |     |         |   132,504,338 |
|                                          |     | Total investments                                                                       |     |                                                     |     |         |     |      |     | $       | 9,299,980,906 |
|                                          |     | There were no investment assets reportable as acquired and disposed of during the year. |     |                                                     |     |         |     |      |     |         |               |
| *                                        |     | Party in interest.                                                                      |     |                                                     |     |         |     |      |     |         |               |
| **                                       |     | Participant-directed investments, cost information is omitted.                          |     |                                                     |     |         |     |      |     |         |               |

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SIGNATURE</div>

The Plan . Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Southern Company Affiliates’ Benefits Administration Committee has duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

| THE SOUTHERN COMPANY                                                                                                          
 EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLAN                                                                                                         
 /s/James M. Garvie                                                                                                            |
| James M. Garvie                                                                                                               
 Senior Vice President, Total Rewards and HR Technology and Chairman of the Southern Company Benefits Administration Committee |

June 27, 2025

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