Currently, there are 596.51M common shares owned by the public and among those 592.86M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.23% and 11.99% over the past three months. LUV shares are trading 5.40% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 24.91% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $21.91 and touched a high of $35.18 over the same period. LUV has an average intraday trading volume of 9.70 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 0.62%, 4.96%, and 5.11% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) shares accounts for 99.20% of the company’s 596.51M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $18.24B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.16. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 258.18, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.12. The company has a PEG of 78.60 and a Quick Ratio of 0.85 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.87. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.74% over the week and 3.26% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -61.66%, and 142.94% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 3.29% over the next five years, compared to -29.89% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the LUV, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Jefferies stated their Hold rating for the stock in a research note on October 09, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $24-$32. TD Cowen coverage for the Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) stock in a research note released on September 30, 2024 offered a Hold rating with a price target of $25. Evercore ISI was of a view on September 03, 2024 that the stock is Outperform, while TD Cowen gave the stock Hold rating on July 17, 2024, issuing a price target of $26- $19. Melius on their part issued Sell rating on June 10, 2024.
