Currently, there are 599.74M common shares owned by the public and among those 593.37M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -2.83% and 7.58% over the past three months. LUV shares are trading -2.86% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 9.93% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $23.58 and touched a high of $36.12 over the same period. LUV has an average intraday trading volume of 6.83 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 -1.96%, -0.14%, and 11.43% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) shares accounts for 90.34% of the company’s 599.74M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $19.59B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.15. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.07. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.92% over the week and 2.35% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -47.45%, and 96.53% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 4.55% 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. Morgan Stanley stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on December 11, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $42. TD Cowen coverage for the Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) stock in a research note released on December 06, 2024 offered a Hold rating with a price target of $28. UBS was of a view on November 26, 2024 that the stock is Sell, while Goldman gave the stock Sell rating on November 15, 2024, issuing a price target of $28. BofA Securities on their part issued Neutral rating on November 04, 2024.
