Currently, there are 569.87M common shares owned by the public and among those 563.08M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 6.95% and 7.47% over the past three months. LUV shares are trading -0.71% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 25.87% 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 14.11 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 5.56%, 11.68%, and 8.92% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) shares accounts for 93.25% of the company’s 569.87M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $19.02B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.23. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 39.64, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.84. The company has a PEG of 0.75 and a Quick Ratio of 0.72 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.85. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.72% over the week and 1.94% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 23.37%, and 113.02% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 52.95% 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. Deutsche Bank stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on May 29, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $40. Jefferies coverage for the Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) stock in a research note released on May 27, 2025 offered a Hold rating with a price target of $33. Jefferies was of a view on April 01, 2025 that the stock is Underperform, while UBS gave the stock Neutral rating on March 20, 2025, issuing a price target of $29- $36. Melius on their part issued Hold rating on March 20, 2025.
