Currently, there are 593.31M common shares owned by the public and among those 567.15M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -8.21% and -25.11% over the past three months. LUV shares are trading -28.49% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -16.47% lower. 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 12.63 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 -17.02%, -19.94%, and -20.29% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) shares accounts for 89.35% of the company’s 593.31M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $13.80B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.28. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 33.84, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.71. The company has a PEG of 0.64 and a Quick Ratio of 0.85 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.78. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 4.60% over the week and 5.93% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) will achieve an EPS of -0.19 for the current quarter, 0.62 for the next quarter and 2.69 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is -0.24 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of -0.24. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was -0.36 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 52.08%, and 80.93% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 53.24% over the next five years, compared to -29.29% 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 Underperform rating for the stock in a research note on April 01, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $28. UBS coverage for the Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) stock in a research note released on March 20, 2025 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $36. Melius was of a view on March 20, 2025 that the stock is Hold, while JP Morgan gave the stock Underweight rating on March 03, 2025, issuing a price target of $25. Argus on their part issued Buy rating on February 11, 2025.
